Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Prophetic Dream: 'Great Moments of Vision and Provision Are Upon You'

If you are obedient to Him, God can open up a whole new world of vision and provision for you.

If you are obedient to Him, God can open up a whole new world of vision and provision for you. (Fllickr )


Prophetic Dream: 'Great Moments of Vision and Provision Are Upon You'


"He brought (Abraham) outside and said, 'Look up toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.' And He said to him, 'So will your descendants be.' Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness" (Gen. 15:5-6).
I saw tents are far as my eyes could see and many of the people of God were in these tents. I then saw the Lord come and tell the people to step out of the tent and look up and see. 
The Lord was releasing specific revelation of His plans, His calling over lives, the "next step," divine strategy and manifested promises to come that were spread out as far as the eyes could see.
Many of the people of God turned to Him with shock, with amazement and nervousness and they spoke: "Oh gosh Lord, it's so much bigger than me and bigger than I dreamed!" 
With a smile on His face, I saw Him place His arms around His people and He spoke ... "That's because it's Me!"
He continued to speak: "It's time to get out of the tent. The limitations, the fears, the confined thinking, "What can I do?" mentality and begin to see how I see. Limitations are being broken off and My plans, My purposes, My divine strategies, My "next steps" for you are unfolding before you. They look impossible and they are in your strength, but with me you are moving into new realms of possibility.
Many of you have "discounted" dreams and visions that have been placed on your heart because they are so big and you have no idea how you will get there, and how it will happen. I ask you not to work out how to get there, or how it will happen, I ask you to align your hearts and faith with the visions I am releasing and stay in faith. For what I am revealing and releasing to you is much bigger than you have dreamed, but everything is possible in Me; and you be used beyond your wildest dreams to shine My Glory."
"Do not be limited by the 'how,' but know that the time is now; I am going to make a way where there is no way. Step out of the tent of limiting beliefs and step out into heavenly vision and visitation." 
Suddenly I saw "bridges" being formed in the Spirit seemingly "out of nowhere" and so quickly that many of the people of God went from "How is this going to happen, and how is this going to work?" questions to bridges suddenly being created and opened up before them as they stayed in faith. That gets them through impossibility and places them where only He could place them. 
I then saw angels approaching the people of God and they were carrying wheels. I have seen wheels numerous times lately in the Spirit and He spoke "I will put wheels on the vision. I will open the doors for your next mission and the vision and it is so much greater than you can envision. You will not be able to envision the provision that is coming to you. Just stay close to Me and listen, as you see glimpses of the heavenly vision I have over your life, steps of great favor and opportunity will open before you by My Spirit. I am about to take you where only I could take you.
"I am going to bring you to a place of manifestation and demonstration of me opening doors that only I could open and no man could shut (Is. 22:22). These doors will be miraculous. How things will come together will not be by your might, or by power, but by My Spirit (Zech. 4:6). All you need to do is stay aligned, stay close to Me and step out of limiting beliefs through repentance. Your tent pegs are being extended further. Don't let fear and the familiar contain you. I will sustain you. All of heaven's resources are placed before you in Me. Access these resources with your faith, make a withdrawal in faith from these heavenly resources in the vision I have given you."
Some of your greatest moments of vision and provision are upon you and are greater than you could ever envision.
Lana Vawser has a heart to encourage the body of Christ and individuals in their walks with Jesus; deeper intimacy with Him; and learning to hear His voice. She operates in the prophetic and loves to share the heart of God with others. Lana has written her first book, titled Desperately Deep—Developing Deep Devotion and Dialogue with Jesus, and loves to see others grow in all that God has for them.
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Monday, September 7, 2015

Christians Facing Genocide Need Your Help Now - Chris Mitchell

Christians Facing Genocide Need Your Help Now

JERUSALEM, Israel -- More than 100,000 Christians have escaped ISIS terrorists over the past year. Most are still scattered across the Middle East.
Finally, one proposal might offer them a way out of their heart-wrenching dilemma.
Christians in the Middle East face the worst situation in centuries. Human rights observers say the West must pay attention to their plight.
Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute, says the world cannot in good conscience ignore them.
"They need to know that Christians are facing genocide," Shea told CBN News. "They need to help these Christians. They need to help them with their prayer and with aid to them to leave."  
After ISIS conquered Mosul and large swathes of territory in Iraq more than a year ago, thousands of Christians found refuge in Kurdistan, others in Jordan and Lebanon. They can't go back home and they can't find work to support themselves and their families.
"ISIS stripped them of all their property," she explained. "When they went into exile, they went into safe havens that will not give them residency status, that will not give them worker authorizations. So they have no money. So it's a very bleak picture."
Shea hopes teaming up with Hollywood producer Mark Burnett will make a difference.
"We've decided that for the most-needy cases, they need to leave; they need to start their lives over," Shea explained. "They need to be re-settled in countries that would give them work authorization, that would allow them to rebuild their lives."
The center plans to resettle these Christians in comfortable surroundings.
"For the Armenians, Armenia; they're Christian of course. (For) Orthodox communities we're looking at Orthodox countries, maybe Georgia, maybe Russia, maybe some places in Eastern Europe. For Protestants we're looking at the Western countries," she explained.
While the numbers are staggering, Shea adds that Christians face an even greater danger.
"Now, the difference with Christians is that they -- underneath the conflict, they're not just running from a conflict. They're running from targeted persecution against them," she said.
Shea calls on the Church not only to pray, but to get involved.
"The Church of the West and the free world, Latin America, needs to pray all the time, I mean, not just once a year, but pray every Sunday in congregation for these persecuted Christians," she said. "And if they can, [they should] contact their political representatives and the candidates running for office to say the United States should take its share of Christians as well."
Find out how to help these Christian refugees 
at the Center for Religious Freedom.
 

The Mideast Migrant Crisis Requires Mideast Solutions

The Mideast Migrant Crisis Requires Mideast Solutions

Monday, September 07, 2015 |  Noah Beck  ISRAEL TODAY
Political responses to crises are often tardy and embarrassingly fad-driven, as with the current global outcry over the image of a three-year-old Syrian boy washed up on the Turkish shore. He was hardly the first innocent victim of this century's most brutal war. Where has the world been for the last 54 months?
Indeed, the unfolding humanitarian crisis was an entirely foreseeable consequence of Obama's spineless Syria policy, and the Western European leaders who followed it. So, despite Obama's efforts to anesthetize the public, it is understandable if some collective shame for Western failures -- driven by tragic images that went viral -- has prompted Europe suddenly to announce that it will accept more refugees from the war-torn Middle East.
But how did the West become more responsible for the Mideast refugee crisis than the wealthiest Mideast states (whose funding of Islamist rebels helped to create that crisis)? According to news reports and think tanks, Arab Gulf donors have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Syria in recent years, including to ISIS and other groups.
Even if Gulf states weren't at all responsible for aggravating the Syrian refugee crisis by strengthening ISIS, their wealth, proximity, and cultural/religious affinities with the refugees should still make these countries far more responsible than Europe is for their welfare. The vast majority of refugees are Muslim Arabs. They therefore share a common language, religion, culture and ethnicity with the wealthy Gulf countries that have shunned them for reasons of national security (as if the West didn't have such concerns). Any dialect or denominational differences Mideast refugees may have with Gulf states are nothing compared to the cultural, linguistic, ethnic, and religious differences between most Middle East refugees and the European countries they hope to enter.
Even more absurd, Gulf countries are bringing in foreign laborers to build up their vast, oil-rich territories. Putting aside their horrific exploitation of those workers (which is a scandal all of its own, even if campus protests, international boycotts, and UN resolutions never mention it), why aren't they instead accepting Mideast refugees who would happily accept the work that imported labor is now doing? Similarly, why have no Gulf countries granted Palestinian refugees citizenship if they so readily advocate for them at the U.N. out of some purported concern for their welfare? The cynical hypocrisy is staggering.
By contrast, tiny Israel absorbed nearly a million Jews from the Middle East and North Africa who were similarly made homeless when, in the 1940s and 1950s, their survival meant fleeing the Muslim-majority states where they had lived for millennia. Israel has also accepted plenty of non-Jewish refugees, from the Vietnamese boatpeople in the late 1970s to African refugees and migrants in recent years. Israel has provided humanitarian medical assistance to countless Syrians and now Israel's deputy minister of regional affairs Israel (an Arab Druze), has joined the leader of the political opposition in urging Israel to accept Syrian refugees, despite the demographic and strategic risks of doing so.
Yet Europe now tries to hurt Israel's economy by stigmatizing goods from the West Bank, with no similar economic campaigns against any of the Gulf countries, whose human rights records are exponentially worse on every issue (freedom of speech, women's rights, religious freedom, minority rights, gay rights, treatment of guest workers, helping refugees, etc.). 
Such double standards will undoubtedly worsen as Europe becomes increasingly Muslim -- a trend that will only intensify with the current refugee crisis. But appeasement hasn't kept Europe safe from Islamist attacks, as evidenced by the 2004 Madrid bombings, the 2005 London attacks, the 2014 Belgium attack, and this year's attacks in Paris (to name just a few).
Europe clearly failed to integrate Muslim immigrants into its societies, which only reinforces doubts about the wisdom of bringing in more such immigrants.
More importantly, the EU's sudden, politically correct acceptance of refugees addresses the symptoms rather than the root cause: the rise of ISIS -- an evil cancer that metastasizes with each day that the world dithers. The longer ISIS survives, the more people are killed, tortured, and enslaved, the more Syria’s minorities are persecuted under an extreme Sunni Islamic rule, and the more refugees desperately try to flee wherever they can.
Defeating ISIS will have to happen eventually anyway, because ISIS threatens everything that civilized life offers, so the sooner that painful task is accomplished, the sooner the related problems (like the migrant crisis) will be solved.
ISIS took territory from Syria and Iraq that is roughly the size of Indiana (according to this New York Times article last July about ISIS's destruction of Mideast Christianity), so there is plenty of land to resettle refugees, once ISIS is defeated.
Notwithstanding the generous island-purchase-offer by an Egyptian billionaire, the best long-term home for these refugees is not some remote Greek island (which only consolidates ISIS's victory). Rather, the refugees should be able to live in security and dignity in the same region from which they fled, which means defeating ISIS and converting the ISIS-liberated territories into mini states that will serve as safe havens for moderate Sunnis and the various minorities at risk, including Christians, Kurds, Druze, Yazidis, and Alawites (who will become the most targeted after Syria's Alawite-led regime falls).
The Kurds -- who have fought ISIS with more courage and determination than any other party -- have more than proven themselves worthy of a state.
The fact that Christians were once 20% of the Middle East and are now safest in the only non-Muslim country in the entire region (Israel), reinforces the need to create a Mideast Christian State. Such a state could exist around Mosul and/or other parts of Iraq/Syria where Christianity has historically existed (Assyria, Antioch, etc.).
The Druze -- an ancient religion that has often also suffered persecution -- could be given a state in southwest Syria.
There could be yet another, non-religious state that welcomes any other minorities (like the Yazidis) and moderate Sunni Muslims.
Until ISIS is replaced with stable and sane states, the Gulf countries should welcome all Mideast refugees. 
To address the Middle East refugee crisis intelligently, the EU should help to defeat ISIS, convert liberated territories into states for the region's persecuted minorities, and pressure Gulf states to absorb all refugees in the interim.
Noah Beck is the author of The Last Israelis, an apocalyptic novel about Iranian nukes and other geopolitical issues in the Middle East.
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Emails Reveal Clinton's True Feelings About Netanyahu

Emails Reveal Clinton's True Feelings About Netanyahu

Monday, September 07, 2015 |  Israel Today Staff
Hillary Clinton might be America’s next president. And, as with every election cycle, the US relationship with Israel is going to be a major part of each candidate’s platform.
People want to know what Hillary, and every other candidate, really thinks about Israel. Not what they’re willing to say from the podium in order to get elected. But their true feelings.
And that goes doubly so for attitudes toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose rocky relations with current US President Barack Obama were at the center of a souring US-Israel friendship in recent years.
Fortunately, Hillary inadvertently told us just about all we need to know in some of those once-private emails that have now been made public amidst her email server scandal.
In May 2010, while Hillary was serving as US Secretary of State, Israel intercepted a flotilla attempting to break the Gaza maritime blockade. Israeli soldiers boarded the flagship, the Mavi Marmara, where they were violently attacked and forced to defend themselves. A number of soldiers were injured and 10 flotilla activists were killed in the brief scuffle.
The Obama White House was none too pleased by this development, and Clinton’s chief advisor, Sidney Blumenthal, pushed her to see it as a result of Netanyahu’s failed leadership.
According to one of Blumenthal’s emails to Clinton, Netanyahu was still trying to live up to the memory of his brother Yoni, who fell in the daring 1976 Israeli raid on Entebe, and to win his father’s approval.
“Bibi desperately seeks his father’s approbation and can never equal his dead brother…(he) has never measured up,” wrote Blumenthal, ignoring the fact that “Bibi” had had his own distinguished military career, and was by that point close to becoming Israel’s longest serving prime minister ever (he has since surpassed David Ben Gurion).
Desperate to make the connection, Blumenthal insisted that “the raid on the ship to Gaza resembles the raid on Entebbe, except that there are no hostages, no guns (on the Turkish ship), it’s not in Africa, and it’s a fiasco; otherwise, it’s Entebbe.”
In Blumenthal’s view, the entire Gaza flotilla “fiasco” was nothing more than a carefully orchestrated slap in Obama’s face by an angry Netanyahu.
The email records show that Clinton almost immediately forwarded Blumenthal’s email to adviser Jake Sullivan with the message “fyi, and itys” - meaning “for your information” and “I told you so.”
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God Is Renaming You. Your New Name Shall Be Called 'CONFIDENCE.' - Bill Yount

God Is Renaming You. Your New Name Shall Be Called 'CONFIDENCE.'



Posted: 06 Sep 2015 04:16 PM PDT
Before getting up to minister recently, my wife sensed that I was battling intimidation. She leaned over to me and whispered, "Your new name is 'Confidence!' Immediately, a lion roared on the inside of me and an alarm went off in hell. I rose up to minister and the Lion of the Tribe of Judah took over the meeting.

I believe the Lord is renaming you today. Your new name is 'Confidence!' 'You shall no longer be called wounded, outcast, lonely or afraid. You shall be called 'Confidence, Joyfulness, Overcoming One, Faithfulness, Friend of God. One who seeks My face.' ( song by D.J. Butler )


Get up and let the lion roar.


Bill Yount
www.billyount.com

Eagle vs. Donkey: How Will the Messiah Arrive?

(Photo: Breaking Israel News)

(Photo: Breaking Israel News)

Eagle vs. Donkey: How Will the Messiah Arrive?


“But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” (Isaiah 40:31)
Through the ages, a subject of much discussion and controversy has been over the two traditions of Jewish thought describing the style in which the Messiah will arrive.
The first concept appears in Zechariah 9:9, which describes the appearance of the Messiah on a donkey: “Your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
The second concept, taken from Exodus 19:4, understands the miraculous arrival of the Messiah on “eagle’s wings.” In addition, the concept of Messiah as “a son of man came with the clouds of heaven…” (Daniel 7:13) is ephemeral and transcendent.
These two concepts seem to be at odds. However, Torah sages say that both are possible.
The central rabbinical text known as the Talmud teaches that the manner in which the Messiah will appear is dependent on our actions (Sanhedrin 98:A). If we are deserving, if our actions are deemed meritorious by God, the messiah will come dressed in splendor and glory. If our actions are less worthy, he will arrive accompanied by the smell of sweat and labor.
The Hebrew word for donkey, chamor (חמור), is also the term for material, chomer (חומר). The concept of the messiah riding a chamor is understood as a process oriented, material version of the messiah, more in line with what Jewish tradition refers to as Moshiach ben Yosef, the Messiah from the House of Joseph.
This involves physically restoring the land, rebuilding the Third Temple and restoring the rule of God and the Bible. The process of a final redemption brought about in this matter implies hard work and pushing forward slowly until we arrive to a new messianic reality with very few surprises.
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The arrival of the messiah on the wings of eagles represents a process initiated from above, a divinely inspired and almost instantaneous transformation of existence as we suddenly descend into the new messianic reality.
The Exodus from Egypt was a case of redemption on the wings of eagles. It was a non-stop display of God’s will, where even the sea was not allowed to remain unchanged by the process and had to bend itself to God’s will. It was an unnatural, supernatural process. The Exodus illustrates in so many ways that redemption can preclude nature. Even sustenance was provided from above. In  a strange twist, coming into the Promised Land was a return to natural processes, a lower level of spirituality, that involved wars being fought, as opposed to relying on miraculous victories brought about by God. The land was farmed and the Temple was built, one stone at a time.
A discussion in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 98a) discusses the verse in Zechariah 9:9. “The Persian King Shevor, asked Shmuel, ‘Why doesn’t your Messiah come riding on a horse? If he lacks one, I’ll be glad to provide him with one of my fast horses!’ In response to the ridicule of the king, Shmuel answers: ‘Do you have a horse that has a hundred shades of color’?” This could be hinting that the mundane process leading up to Messiah could be just as wonderful and awe-inspiring as an instantly delivered, divine process, depending on how you look at it.

Yeminite Jews en route to Israel from Yemen in Operation Wings of Eagles, also known as Operation Magic Carpet. (Photo: Wiki Commons)
Yeminite Jews en route to Israel from Yemen in Operation Wings of Eagles, also known as Operation Magic Carpet. (Photo: Wiki Commons)

The messianic concept of arriving on eagle’s wings has also served as inspiration to modern day Israel. In June 1949, the newly established country launched an operation to bring Yemen’s threatened community of Jews to Israel. British and American transport planes made over 380 flights from Aden in a secret operation that saved 49,000 Jews.
At first, there was some concern that the Yemenites, coming from an undeveloped country, would be reluctant to board the airplanes. To the pilots’ chagrin, they enthusiastically boarded the airplanes and sat calmly during the flight after their rabbis explained that the airplanes were like eagles.
The planes had come to fulfill the prophecy of taking them to the Promised Land on the “Wings of Eagles”, which was the official name of the operation.
Today, we are living in a time where Jews are returning to Israel in fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. The ingathering of the exiles from the four corners of the earth are one step in the larger Messianic process.

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/48361/what-can-eagle-donkey-teach-about-process-redemption-jewish-world/#5DZdQFLIMxCceLiy.99

Sunday, September 6, 2015

#5005 Blog Post for Love For His People


Blog Post #5005


Today, Sept. 6, 2015, we are posting our 5005th blog post. With this blog website having been birthed in 2010, that would average 1001 posts per year. Yeah!

Below are a few logos we have used during this time, as the Lord Jesus has taken us on a journey with Him. Sharing His love to the nations continues to be our prime purpose. Giving encouragement, wisdom and strength through the Lord for Israel, and the other nations we provide support to (India, Pakistan, Dominica, Vietnam and ministries in the USA) continues strong.

Gathering together news from the great resources of ISRAEL TODAY, CHARISMA NEWS, CBN NEWS, CHARISMA MAGAZINE, MORRIS RUDDICK (SIGN) ISRAEL365, MORNINGSTAR (RICK JOYNER), BILL YOUNT, JERUSALEM365, YOUTUBE, JIM BAKKER SHOW, FACEBOOK, THE ELIJAH LIST, IDENTITY NETWORK, TIMES OF ISRAEL, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS (BIN) and more have given us good news, from a biblical viewpoint, which is truth to stand on.




Beginning in the fall of 2010, with Steve's Ahava Love Letters, and then with the current messages entitled Now Think On This, we have touched many nations with words of faith, love and hope. 



These messages in turn have been published in print and Kindle e-books, and available online at Amazon.com and Martin Lighthouse Publishing.









So thank you to all of you who have enjoyed reading our blog, and keep coming back for more news and publications, as we press forward in the Lord's purposes and plans. Let us know how it has touched your lives if you would please.

Shalom and ahava,

Steve Martin
Founder
Love For His People, Inc.