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After Action Review – Intercession Concerning North Korea

Discerning The Times, High-level Intercession

(While this is lengthy, I think it provides some important insights into the dynamics of intercession.)

I sent out the following call to prayer concerning North Korea:
https://discernwith.us/urgent-call-to-prayer-to-constrain-the-evil-that-may-break-out-from-north-korea-by-april-15-2017

Thanks for the many responses that I received on this alert. There were many excellent comments.

I think we need to do an After Action Review to sharpen our discernment and assess what God may have been doing. I start with what happened to me as I was called into the gap, followed by some of what we may learn from this. After that, for those of you who want the details, I provide the documentation and the responses from the other intercessors. I have included an excellent letter from Ben Torrey, who lives in South Korea, who was called into an entirely different direction of intercession. [Read more…] about After Action Review – Intercession Concerning North Korea

New Book, New Event Coming Soon

Discerning The Times, Prayer

I am so happy to announce the upcoming publication of the book, Discerning the Times: Exposing Satan’s Plans in Radical Islam, available on Amazon in July.

This is Book I in the series: A Prayer Strategy for Jesus’ Victory Over Radical Islam. It lays out Satan’s strategies. Book II, A Prayer Strategy for the Victory of Jesus Christ: Defeating the Demonic Strongholds of Radical Islam will soon follow. It gives prayer strategies to cooperate with God’s plans to overcome these demonic strongholds. Although both books focus on a specific issue, the principles given can be applied to many other spiritual conflicts.

Prayer Advance: Launching and Learning

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On March 18-19, a group gathered at the Community of the Cross for our first Prayer Advance. That group was expanded by others who gathered with us and actively participated in the work of prayer over video conferencing.

This is one more step toward the fulfillment of the guidance that Jesus Christ gave us–that the Community of the Cross was to be a “hub” for intercessory prayer to take place. We connected together in “real time” individual intercessors and other centers of intercession scattered around the world.

We are taking part in the Holy Spirit’s plans to raise up an army of intercessors and spiritual warriors deployed in the work of intercession. This army of intercessors and prayer warriors is a vital component in the Father’s master strategy of fulfilling the Great Commission through the Church of Jesus Christ.

On Saturday morning, March 19th, the Holy Spirit led us to pray for the situation in Belgium where the police were seeking those involved in the Paris terrorist attacks.

I did some teaching on the nature of demonic cloaking that covers Satan’s plans and protects his agents both human and demonic from exposure.

As we prayed, the Holy Spirit gave Martin Boardman, located in Alberta, Canada, a “vision” of a tear in the cloaking. The moment he said this, several of us in Black Mountain immediately witnessed to it as having come from the Holy Spirit. At the very same time, Pauline Eyles, on holiday in Southern France, joined the conversation confirming that she witnessed to this. She then led us in a time of prayer for the investigation that was taking place right then in France and Belgium that was on their news but had not yet reached us here in North America. This led into a time of binding the evil spirits associated with Radical Islam and ISIS. Another online intercessor in the United States received guidance about breaking the sequences of events that could be leading to new terrorist attacks in Belgian or France.

Pray for Protection during Holiday Celebrations

Discerning The Times

Intercessors! Thanks for praying.

Pray for protection from Islamic Jihadist attacks against the “soft targets” presented by Hanukkah and Christmas celebrations.

Sunday night, December 6th I joined several hundred others at Christ Community Church in Montreat, NC to celebrate the children’s Christmas program. My 5-year-old granddaughter was an angel. It was wonderful! The program gave glory to Jesus Christ. Then a sobering thought hit me, “what a perfect soft target!” I immediately got up and walked around the sanctuary praying for protection for those gathered at this particular Christian event. I also was led to pray for those celebrating Hanukkah which started that night and will end on December 14th.

Satan has declared war on both Jews and Christians through the stronghold of Radical Islam. So in this season of Hanukkah and Christmas we are called to prayer that Satan’s plans will be thwarted.

Remember the rhyme of the horseshoe nail? I talked about this in the last Discerning the Times (Praying to Break Links).

For the want of a nail the shoe was lost,
For the want of a shoe the horse was lost,
For the want of a horse the rider was lost,
For the want of a rider the battle was lost,
For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.”

Ask the Lord to reveal to you any other metaphorical horseshoe-nails that Satan needs to implement further terrorist attacks like what we just witnessed.

It is urgent that these chains of events that lead to such attacks be broken. If you get any guidance about the “horseshoe-nails” in Satan’s plans please let us all know.

What are Satan’s Plans in Radical Islam and the Religion of Islam – the Replacement of God the Father’s way of Salvation in Jesus Christ with the way of death [Read more…] about Pray for Protection during Holiday Celebrations

A special call to prayer and action

Discerning The Times, Prayer

To all those who receive PRMI’s emails.

Special Prayer Letter From Dr. Brad Long, Executive Director of PRMI

My heart is heavy from the various tragic events of the last few weeks. Terrorist attacks by Isis in France, Lebanon, and Iraq, plus their claim to have brought down a Russian Airliner cause my heart to sink at the loss of innocent lives.

We are not called to despair, but cry out to our God who reigns supreme over the universe, even when it seems bleak.

I am convinced that the terrorist attacks by Isis in France, Lebanon, Iraq, and a Russian airliner is another clarion wake up call to the whole Church of Jesus Christ!

ISIS has claimed responsibility for these[1] and French President Hollande declared the one against France to be an act of war.[2]

Listen to his moving speech – (Here with English sub titles)

This most recent attack is not just against France, but together these attacks are against humanity. [Read more…] about A special call to prayer and action

Sharing How To Overcome Current Strongholds

Discerning The Times

Yesterday the headlines read:

At least 12 dead in Islamist terror attack at satirical French publication.

As many as three Kalashnikov-toting shooters were being sought following the 11:30 a.m. attack at Charlie Hebdo, the publication known for challenging Muslim terrorists with a 2011 caricature of Prophet Muhammed on its cover and which recently tweeted a cartoon of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Two policemen and several journalists, including the cartoonist behind the weekly publication’s provocative images, were among the dead.

“We’ve avenged the honor of the prophet!” the killers shouted, according to witnesses who spoke to Sky News. Other witnesses said the men shouted “Allahu Akbar,” Arabic for “God is great.” The gunmen spoke French without any accent, according to Le Monde.

This is a clear revelation of Satan’s purposes in the demonic stronghold of radical/militant Islam. It is to destroy any dissent and rational thinking in regards to the deceptive foundations of Islam. What the Islamists seek to do is to quench freedom of speech by putting to death all those who dare to speak the truth.

Now of course, no Christian likes to hear Jesus made fun of either. Many of us have resented those who have challenged the basis of our faith. But because our faith is based on historical facts and revelation that can withstand both humor and the withering glare of historical criticism, in the long run we end up with much stronger foundations for the truth that we proclaim and live by. And we have a faith that is freely chosen which is just what God intends.

He honors our freedom as well as our minds. He wants us to come to Him freely and also rationally with the claims of the Christian faith evaluated as to their truth and historical veracity.

And let’s face it, part of that process of coming to a rational understanding is to have the freedom of speech and thought to be able to laugh at ourselves and even our most cherished beliefs.

GK Chesterton said “It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.” [1]

Radical Islamists who kill people to uphold the honor of their prophet, not only reveal that they have a “bad religion”, but one that is founded on a set of beliefs that cannot hold up under satire and humor or rational historical analysis.

Attacking this newspaper that dared to be critical of radical Islamic leaders and their false religion, is not an anomaly. It is the intention of radical Islam to shut down free speech. This is all well documented in Mark Steyn’s book, Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech and the Twilight of the West, published in 2009.

This incident just proves the true nature of radical Islam and confirms its kinship with all the other totalitarian systems of thought, government or religion that have been the bane of humanity. All have used the choice weapons of death, dungeon and intimidation to oppose and shut down free speech.

What can we as Christians do to overcome this growing evil of radical/militant Islam with the Kingdom of Jesus Christ?

What do we do about this menace to both humanity and to the Kingdom of God?

Most often the problem seems so huge or so dangerous that we turn away and conclude that we really cannot do much about it. What I have been working on over these last months is what we CAN do to defeat the great evil of radical/militant Islam. (Actually we can’t do anything! Unless we cooperate with Jesus Christ who can!)

In November, 2014 we videotaped a course on high level spiritual warfare at the Community of the Cross. I was joined by Doug McMurray, Bernie McGale and Dan Juster in the teaching. During this time, I received three clear words of guidance which have been discerned and we are acting on. All of which relate to what just happened today in this terrorist attack intended to quench freedom of speech. [Read more…] about Sharing How To Overcome Current Strongholds