As Whose Nation Goes?

It has been said in America, "As New Hampshire goes so goes the nation." By our own words, we have established some wrong precepts in America that the Father is going to address this year, 2020. I have been sitting on this word since 2003- it is like a fine bottle of wine ready to be poured out, and it is the Father’s desire that I serve it today- 1/20/2020. 20.20.20

The Father is igniting the youth and young adults beginning in the state of New Hampshire. The same outpouring that starts there will jump state lines as the movement is shared and the vision spreads across America like a wildfire. This word isn’t just for New Hampshire, but for every youthful believer called to bring about the ecclesia. In order to fully understand what the Father is saying in this season, we must understand the meaning of ecclesia.

"Quoting from the Oxford Universal English Dictionary on the word "ecclesia":

Ecclesia [mediaeval Latin, and Greek - from : SUMMONED] -A regularly convoked assembly, especially the general assembly of Athenians. Later, the regular word for church.

...an "ecclesia" was originally a select civil body, summoned or convoked for a particular purpose. What, then, did the writers of the New Testament mean when they used the word "ecclesia" to describe a Christian body of people? We can assume that they intended to convey the original Greek meaning of the word: a body of Christians called out of the Roman and Judean system to come together into a separate civil community. It meant a politically autonomous body of Christians under no king but Jesus; under no other jurisdiction but that of Jesus. No man ruled them! Only Christ. And that was the reason these same Christians ran into trouble with kings and rulers; were arrested, crucified and martyred. They dropped Caesar as their King and took up Christ." Excerpt from Aggressive Christianity, The Correct Meaning of "Church" and "Ecclesia" http://www.aggressivechristianity.net/articles/ecclesia.htm

When the Face of the Old Man of the Mountain Fell

The Lord woke me up this morning to pray for our President. As I pressed in and prayed for his strengthening and encouragement, I was reminded of New Hampshire and the year 2003 when the rock formation, The Old Man of the Mountain slid off the mountain. It was that same summer when my husband and I packed up everything we could, literally Beverly Hillbilly Style and drove across our nation from Colorado to New England. My husband had accepted a job at a brand new high school in York City, Maine. The nearest we could afford was a converted apartment in a two-story Victorian home in Rochester, New Hampshire where we lived on the second floor.

While The Old Man of the Mountain lay in stony bits on the earth, that same year in the Episcopal Church in the United States, Gene Robinson was elected and consecrated Bishop of New Hampshire, becoming the first openly gay bishop in the Anglican Communion and in apostolic Christianity. This was highly controversial and for weeks it was all we heard about on many of the local radio stations and news stations. I remember that week whenever we crossed the border from Maine into New Hampshire, I could feel a heavy spirit of oppression that had come over the state of New Hampshire. It was tangible, I felt like I was walking through a black curtain every time I crossed between borders.

What Should Be Freely Given

No sooner had we arrived that we learned we couldn’t drink the water. Coming from a place where Colorado Rocky Mountain purified water is plentiful, it was a shock to learn that the water was responsible for the death of many elderly. In fact, there was a news article and bulletins warning community members to drink filtered water. So we loaded up all the empty containers we could muster and drove to the nearest Walmart in Newbury, NH only to find no water station!

We were on a tight budget and trying to figure out how we were going to make it when an old-timer approached my husband and told him about a freshwater spring only a few miles away from where we were. He drew out a map on the backside of a receipt and gave it to us. So we loaded up our groceries and followed this sacred-to-us map, to find freshwater! When we arrived at Rollins Road, we pulled up to an awe-inspiring sight,-a cluster of nuns filling their water jugs. We praised God! We were so thankful to have found water and learned that these sisters were caretakers of a nearby orphanage. We felt like we had entered into a heaven-on-earth moment as we laughed and filled our containers with the fresh water bubbling up from the earth and out of a pipe.

A week later we returned to replenish our water to find the pipe pulled out and a NO TRESPASSING sign over the spring. It was an obvious display of the enemy's response to our arrival. That spring had been accessible for more than thirty years according to news reports. My husband and I looked at each other with deep sadness and drove the rest of the way home in silence.

Live Free or Die! I was uncertain as to the type of freedom that was being broadcast over every license plate that highlighted the state’s motto. I soon learned that my uneasy feelings about the state of New Hampshire weren’t unmerited. My neighbor was a prison guard at the nearby detention facility. Since I had a degree in psychology we hit it off and he shared that New Hampshire had the highest pedophile rate per capita in the nation! I remember the day before, pushing my jog stroller down a dirt path when a tall bald man came toward me with glazed eyes, not focused but walking briskly and I began to pray. I prayed out loud in the spirit because I was fearful for my safety. God told me that was the first time anyone had prayed in that particular location. I was shocked. I was safe and when the man passed me and my daughters by, it was as though I became invisible. As he walked past us on the bridge, I looked down into the water and saw a stereotypical red old child’s tricycle partially emerging from its confines in the river bed. The prophetic symbolism of the moment caused me to shudder in the summer heat.

Speak to the Rock, Don’t hit it!

Since the water spring, and the No Trespassing sign, I became fixated on issues about rocks and water. My husband arrived home one day unaware of my questions about rocks and water and explained to me about a form of identifying the age of things based upon its water content, particularly rocks. As I understand it, this is a form of aging that archeologists use when determining the age of an object or area based upon its porosity. I became excited as God began to open up to me what He was saying:

New Hampshire is called the granite state and truly it is a stony state, as are the hearts of the people. There is a harshness to the state of New Hampshire that promotes a “have it all or die doing it” mentality. The Old man must die so that the new man, Jesus, LIVES! Moses smote the rock and brought forth water ( See Numbers 20). Out of irritation and frustration toward the unbelieving Israelites, he smote the rock, but today God wants to draw the water out and give us New Living Water. He wants to speak to the rock and turn the hearts of stone into thriving hearts of life and bring forth living water through a new man-JESUS! It is the goodness of God that leads man to repentance, not more judgment. It will be the prophetic voice that rises up from this "separate civil community" that will generate an avalanche of change- a living, breathing ecclesia. They will know Who their power source is and through love and humility and honor toward one another, we will begin to see a great shift in the identity of all of God's children, YOUNG AND OLD!

The Father wants to give Living Water that is FREE!

On another day in 2003 while on a walk without my daughters, I found myself in the woods again, only this time the trail came to a dry river bed in the middle of a thick forest. As I walked the length of the dry river bed, about 15 feet wide, I came upon a footbridge. The path was well-traveled and I was prompted by the Holy Spirit to keep going- so I did. When I finally came to the end of the forest I came face to face with the local elementary school. I turned around and retraced my steps and at the footbridge suddenly there appeared two huge angels. Their swords were drawn, they were swinging them back and forth like cycles and they were guarding the way. They showed me that many children crossed this path and I began to pray. I prayed without my own words, but the Spirit’s. I prayed for those children that they would become like a broken dam released to overtake the city of Rochester at first and then the prayer turned to the entire state of New Hampshire and then the nation! I prayed that God would smite the stony hearts of the mama’s and papa’s and bring forth a RIVER of Living Water in the hearts of their children! Then...it started to rain! I said Amen!, and then it began to rain! The rain was so heavy that I had to stand beneath a tree and find shelter until it subsided. Everything I had done and everything that had occurred was prophetic. That was sixteen years ago. These children are now 15 and older. They are the children the Father is calling this hour.

Later in the spring, we were invited to attend a church that was meeting in the Town Hall near Portsmouth, NH. When we arrived and worship began it was the first moment when I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit since leaving Colorado. The Holy Spirit was sweet and powerful as we all adored the Father by our worship. The worship leader, a beautiful black woman with a large booming voice began to prophesy as she led worship about a river. She saw a river breaking off into many rivers and began to prophesy about three different people groups who were bringing streams of living water. I was so excited as the Spirit of God welled up within me, these people had been contending for change- they wanted to experience the power of God and had been fighting for their state. They were such a small band of believers and my heart swelled with the power of the word that was within me- a word that would encourage them, strengthen them in what God was getting ready to do.

As worship ended the other worship leader drew a chalk line on the concrete floor of the Town Hall- He declared “Anyone who is ready to cross over and do church differently, step over this line.” It was a call to the ecclesia! Before anyone could respond a large man, an interim pastor I learned later, hoisted up a wooden podium with an American Flag ceremoniously hanging from the front and set it right in the middle of the chalk-drawn line. WOOSH! The Holy Spirit was gone. He began to speak and teach about women speaking in church and that they needed to remain beneath “their covering” in order to speak. My husband sat beside me and I felt confident that I would fall under the category of being properly covered. I was so pregnant with the prophecy that I boldly stood up, ready to encourage this group of believers when my husband grabbed my arm and pulled me back down to my chair. Stunned I sat back in my chair as he fiercely whispered into my ear, “They don't let women speak at this church.”

Almost simultaneously an elderly couple who was getting ready to transfer to a new church and become deacons stood and asked for prayer. As the pastor spoke about the couple and their service with this group the wife politely interrupted the pastor and corrected him, as he was calling her husband by the wrong name. The pastor exploded and proceeded to condemn the woman for speaking and the man for saying nothing. He was belligerent as he accused this elderly woman; "You shouldn’t have said that he should have!” To say he was disrespectful would be an understatement. I was never able to deliver this word...until today- for the year 2020!

THE FATHER SAYS TODAY,

To the Granite State of New Hampshire: God is getting ready to give you a NEW HEART!

Today because of the generation who was more fearful to speak because of the fear of man rather than the fear of the Lord, the Father is handing the honor over to the youth and the brave women who worked behind the scenes. The Father is giving to the youth what was never delivered to their parents because of the pride of man. Not only is the Father restoring to this generation what is rightfully theirs but he is going to honor the Grans through this transfer. The Grans are the older generations who saw the ecclesia coming out of organized religion, who saw the corruption in the church and refused to succumb to the corruption by the world that has entered the church. They share a testimony of how the Father used them in spite of political correctness, religion, empty tradition and ordinances.

James 1:27 New International Version (NIV)

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

They will stand alongside their grandchildren and help turn over the money changers' tables and they will be part of correcting the absence of specific scripture and the misappropriation of scripture. God will use whoever will say, Yes! Corporately many in this generation watched as leaders sold the free into slavery in the name of traditional values and comfortable religion- chunks of the Father’s word have been left out of teaching to avoid conflict and appease the fear of man. No one spoke up- but the Father is speaking on behalf of this generation!

Proverbs 31:8

New International Version Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations

The Passion Translation But you are to be a king who speaks up on behalf of the disenfranchised and pleads for the legal rights of the defenseless and those who are dying.

This is radical, and it isn’t every single person- the shift has to do with the answer they give God on the day He calls. He calls to himself and then He calls to us again: we first choose the Lord Jesus and then we must follow him and do the work of the Lord Jesus- the greater work (John 14:12-14) that he has called us to do! Because so few were willing to teach about identity in Christ, there is a corruption of identity over all the earth. Condemnation is going to be transformed into sweet liberty, and not an American version of liberty for all, but TRUE King of kings, Lord of lords Glorious Liberty that sets captives free and keeps them free!

We’ve been bringing the lost to the name of Jesus, but few of us have introduced the person of Jesus. They come wounded and hurting, we tell them about a savior and then we plug them into church ministry and performance instead of the Savior- when they can’t perform hopelessness settles in and they are left doubting they were even saved. They need to be plugged into The Power Source! How? How do we do that?

Through shepherding.

Jeremiah 12:10

Many shepherds will ruin my vineyard and trample down my field; they will turn my pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

For years I have wept and grieved with the Father. My mama’s heart wants to grab everyone and comfort them, but I would be robbing them of standing on their own two feet- instead we must teach the complete word of God! We must empower each other in the fullness of the word of God and not allow minimalist thinking to adjust the purpose of shepherding.

The ROBBED generation is going to become the ROBED generation! The millennials, the generation x and older generations have been taught from the pulpit of traditional religion that they aren’t saved unless they plug into the temple, the building project, the coffee house ministry and when they don’t they are shamed- they are church shamed for loving the Lord of the temple MORE than loving the temple of the Lord. And THAT my brothers and sisters is why this new generation of young shepherds are coming forth today. They will be like a young David arguing with Goliath- Just who is this Philistine who speaks against my God!?!? Who says my God can’t defeat you and they will be speaking to our greatest adversary, that Devil who uses religion, denomination, church position and status to keep us all divided!

Oh, Lord Jesus! He is coming church- He is coming on a cloud of witnesses and that cloud this season is a group of original youth identifying themselves as “unaffiliated” declaring, “Give me Jesus, not your temple sacraments! I want Jesus!” And because of this they will usher in a powerful move of God. It won’t be about politics but politics will bump into it because God is manifesting the Government upon His shoulders!

A generation is here that is no longer going to stand for the alters and traditions of those who have gone before. They will demand, Show me, Jesus! They themselves will be responsible for smiting the stony places. What God intended to be free, the religious elect have charged, packaged and created a product called Bottled Water- the price they have paid has been through the excuse of political correctness and politeness. God is restoring His power, His might and His authority over the earth and it is coming through a generation who had no idea about their identity in Christ Jesus. They will be called A Beautiful People unto the Lord because they have heard the One crying in the wilderness, “Prepare ye the way!” They are preparing.

To that youth, the Father says, Be bold!

Be bold in your knowledge of the words of God- speak to the rock, don’t hit it. This means to forgive those who mishandled the truth and move forward in your destiny and in your authority in Christ Jesus. Locate your prophets, locate your apostles- there is still time to glean from the Grans- Grandparents and Great-grandparents who never bought into the business of the political correctness of the church. They will share with you what Godly order looks like. There are those who like you want nothing to do with selling the gospel- they have stories to tell- Powerful testimonies that when heard by your youthful ears will impart upon you the order of the day, the passing of a mantel and an anointing will co-occur as you humble yourself and sit at the feet of those who have, Been there. Done that. You will glean from the wise such wisdom and you will do this while sitting at their feet- at a restaurant, or at the park, in the grocery store, or a coffee house- when the Holy Spirit tells you to ask, do it because now is the time. You will leave each encounter with coal taken from the Refiner’s Fire! You will be like National Treasure locating the hidden treasure of a nation, but you won’t keep it for yourself- you will give it away freely heaping up coals to burn a fire in a nation- a nation that has been cold and baren. You hold the key to unlock that nation.

I see the youth, the twenty-somethings, meeting in homes, in school gyms presented like afterschool programs, in libraries even abandoned businesses. I see the prophecy of Jim Corbet in A White Stone coming forth in precision and the Father raising up prophets like Train, the main character and actually DOING what the Bible says rather than just learning about it! This will change the nation! This will change the state of “The Granite State” to one of contrition because the children of the hard-hearted will compel them to repent. This is going to directly impact New Hampshire as the first state for the primary election only because the media will be covering it, and the conviction by God is to turn that state loose from having the highest pedophile rate to a nation of young men and women who know their authority in Christ Jesus and know to whom they belong. If "ecclesia" is a select civil body, summoned or convoked for a particular purpose," then this is that purpose: the government is upon HIS shoulders! Jesus wants you to walk in your authority- become like David, load that slingshot with TRUTH and launch it straight into your adversary's forehead. In order to take down your enemy, you will need order. You all hear the Father’s voice! He wants to be on speaking terms with ALL of you and so you won’t need to compete- you already understand where that gets you based upon the past generation. You will honor one another- you will submit one to another- and through a single unified voice, you will speak on behalf of those who do not have a voice: the infant lives who were murdered and then justified through abortion. The blood cries out and you will be compelled by the Holy Spirit to use your voice of one and recover the land that was saturated by the blood of many innocent lives. The Lord is your King and He will lead you. For all of the wrongs that have come as a result of no one speaking up for you...

The Father says,

Forgive them. Love them. Trust God. Let go of the outcome and grab onto this truth: You were created for a time such as this!