In America, our founding Fathers set the government up to defend personal freedom and national sovereignty. Clay Clark believes that globalist forces are trying to destroy both.

As the host of the “Thrive Time” Radio Show and founder of the Reawaken America Tour, Clark looks to Scripture as his “first news source.” Not only is it his first news source, he says, “When I drive my car, I listen to the Bible because that’s my second news source.” Clark says that he tries to filter every piece of news through the filter of Scripture, and because of that, every time I talk with him, he brings something fresh and new to the table.

Speaking of new, Clark says that there’s a new virus media influencers are thrusting onto the world stage by the name of Monkeypox.

Interestingly, Clark has discovered that the Nuclear Threat Initiative, an organization founded by Ted Turner and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, predicted the outbreak of monkeypox over a year ago. Clark says that they predicted the first outbreak accurately within days of when the first outbreak actually happened.

While Monkeypox doesn’t seem to be a worldwide “pandemic” yet, Clark shows how the precedents set by COVID lockdowns could lead to power hungry politicians locking down countries. He references Yuval Noah Harrari, an advisor for the World Economic Forum and an academic respected by Obama and many other world leaders. In a video, Harrari says this about the implications of COVID: “Conceptually… it shows you that you can change things on a massive scale – that… you can stop all flights. You can lock down entire countries. You can actually do that.”

Harrari continues, “And this… may make us more open to radical ideas about how to deal also with climate change. The COVID-19 crisis could be a… watershed moment, a moment of significant change in the history of surveillance because surveillance is being revolutionized – transformed from over the skin surveillance to under the skin surveillance.”

Clark warns that Harrari’s observations are seriously being considered by the World Health Organization as they plan how to usurp any nation’s sovereignty under the guise of stopping deadly viruses.

Helen Clark, a key member of the World Health Organization, told members of the World Economic Forum, “We have to believe that it’s possible to stop a localized outbreak, becoming a raging global pandemic. And that means better surveillance [and] more transparency by all member states… The WHO needs the power to be on the site.”

She continues, “And it’s got to be able to declare an emergency without being kneecapped by an emergency committee.”

Here’s what Clark says that means for the United States. The World Health Organization has the support of over 100 nations, who have all agreed to give them emergency power during global health emergencies. “If any country in the world is not complying with the World Health Organization’s recommendations,” says Clark, “They are a threat to everybody else, to the health of those other hundred nations.”

He continues, “And therefore, all the other nations need to descend upon that nation that won’t comply to stop the spread.”

Clark states bluntly, “If we comply, America will die.”

Based on his research, Clark believes we might soon find ourselves in another engineered “pandemic.” If we do, he has three pieces of advice for every one of us.

“Don’t take the monkeypox vaccine,” he says. “Second, is I recommend Pick up a copy of this book- Believer’s Authority written by Kenneth Hagin. It’s powerful.” He also recommends coming out to a ReAwaken America Tour event where you can connect with like-minded people to find out how you can help bring revival to this country.

Our government was set up to defend personal freedom and national sovereignty. If our politicians won’t do that, it’s time for the people to rise up, and before we rise up, we must wake up.

Join us for the ReAwaken America Tour by clicking here, and make sure you share this important episode of The Strang Report on social media with your friends. The globalist agenda is real, but so is the authority we have as believers to stop it.

You can listen to previous my previous podcasts with Clay here and here.

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What do you crave?

Is it something God doesn’t want you to crave? Is it more important to you than God? If you want it just because you want it, you may be living by following your desires and cravings rather than the power of the Holy Spirit.

Galatians 5:16, 18 (TPT) tells us, “As you yield to the dynamic life and power of the Holy Spirit, you will abandon the cravings of your self-life. When your self-life craves the things that offend the Holy Spirit you hinder him from living free within you! And the Holy Spirit’s intense cravings hinder your self-life from dominating you! … But when you yield to the life of the Spirit, you will no longer be living under the law, but soaring above it!”

When we do what we want, we are not following the Holy Spirit. We are allowing our cravings to lead us. The solution, then, is to surrender to the Holy Spirit. It took me a long time to do that and to understand that what I wanted was not the most beneficial for me. In fact, many times the foods I craved mastered me; I became their willing slave just because I wanted them (1 Cor. 6:12).

Caramel Thief

It started early for me. When I was around 5 years old, I noticed that my mother kept a bag of caramels up in the top of the kitchen cabinet. I loved caramels, but they were off limits to me. So when she took a nap in her bedroom, I’d pull a chair up to the counter, climb up and snitch a caramel.

At first I was very careful and only took one at a time. However, I soon wanted more, and I felt that what I wanted, I had to have. This went on for about a year until I went to school and wasn’t home during my mother’s afternoon naps.

One time in the summer, though, I had to have a caramel. Mom was asleep. I crept up onto the counter, but this time I took the entire bag down because there weren’t many caramels in there. I sat in the middle of the floor indulging myself, unaware of anything else in the room. I was in caramel heaven.

That is, until I looked over and saw my mother’s shoes in front of me.

“Teresa Kay,” my mother said, “what do you think you are doing?”

I looked up and said, “I was hungry.”

“Are those your caramels?” she asked.

I shook my head. “No.”

“The caramels are mine, and you are never to eat them again without permission,” she said. “When you get to be an adult, you can buy your own candy and eat as much as you want. But right now, you aren’t to touch these.”

She grabbed the bag with the few remaining pieces and took it to her room, where she carefully stashed it so I couldn’t find it.

Grandma’s Oatmeal Cookies

My desire for sweets didn’t go away as I got older and stayed more often with my grandparents on their farm. There, Grandma would often have me help her make a big batch of oatmeal cookies. We’d eat them until they were all gone and then make another batch the next day.

When I grew up, I cooked all the things Grandma had taught me to cook. And I felt that if I wanted and ate something sweet, I was following my mother’s advice—I was now an adult and could eat all I wanted. And eat I did.

Danger in Delicious Form

Because of that mindset, I eventually reached 430 pounds. A cardiac surgeon told me I’d have five years to live if I didn’t lose at least 100 pounds and keep it off. This time in my life was pivotal because it was the first time I had been told unabashedly that my extreme weight could lead to my death.

He opened my eyes to the dangers of my overindulging in delicious foods and helped me realize that my excuse that I wanted them simply because I loved to eat them was controlling my life. During this time I realized I did want to live for my family and so I could do whatever God wanted to do with my life. I just didn’t want to give up the foods I loved. I really thought I couldn’t survive without them. Romans 7:19 (NLT) sums up how I felt during this time: “I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.”

My story is long and involved, but I want you to understand that one of the main excuses I used to do what God told me to do—to stop eating sugar—is that I wanted it. I loved it. I lived it.

At the end of Romans 7, verses 24-25, Paul asks a pivotal question and then gives us the answer: “Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.”

Let the Holy Spirit Lead

Jesus is the answer. When we accept Him, we receive the Holy Spirit. He lives within us to lead and guide us, but we have to acknowledge His presence and ask for His help. We must be Spirit-controlled, sensitive to His direction, guidance and leading.

In other words, we have to take the forks out of our mouths. We have to put the food down. He won’t do it for us. {eoa}

Teresa Shields Parker is the author of six books and two study guides, including her number one bestseller, Sweet Grace: How I Lost 250 Pounds and Stopped Trying to Earn God’s Favor. Her sixth book, Sweet Surrender: Breaking Strongholds, is live on Amazon. She blogs at . She is also a Christian weight loss coach (check out her coaching group at Overcomers Academy) and speaker. Don’t miss her podcast, Sweet Grace for Your Journey, available on the Charisma Podcast Network. This article first appeared on . Don’t miss episode 137 of the Sweet Grace for Your Journey podcast, “I Want What I Want.” Click here to listen:

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When God called me to teach His Word, my extended family and friends were not pleased. The church I attended was not pleased, and many people tried to change my mind by making it clear that if I chose to move forward with a ministry of teaching God’s Word, I would no longer be welcome in their midst.

I was asked to leave my church because God had called me to do something for Him that did not fit into their traditional theology. At the time it hurt me deeply, but later I realized that God used their rejection to get me to a place where I could learn what He wanted me to learn and go on to become the person He wanted me to be.

In Galatians 1:10 (NIV), the apostle Paul said, “Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.”

Before he became an apostle of Christ, Paul had been a zealous and committed Pharisee, which often caused him to persecute Christians. And he understood that initially after he accepted Christ as his Savior, if he sought people’s approval, he might not get it because of his reputation as a man who had hunted Christians in order to arrest and persecute them.

Even though Paul was now a changed man, just as many believers are today, people don’t always believe we have changed. Instead they see us as we have been in the past and refuse to see us as new creations in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17). But God sees who and what we will become.

The account of Paul’s conversion is in Acts 9:1–19, and I think it is important to include it in this section so we can see how completely he was changed by an encounter with the living Christ. I am sharing his story in my own words, but I also recommend that you read it for yourself.

Paul (known as Saul at this point in his life) was still making threats of persecution and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He was a bystander in the crowd when Stephen, who was an esteemed disciple in the church, was stoned and perhaps threw some stones himself. He had gotten permission from the high priest of the local synagogue to capture and bring people he found to be believers in Christ to Jerusalem for trial.

As he traveled and approached Damascus, suddenly a light shone from heaven all around him. “He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?'” (Acts 9:4). Saul asked who was talking to him, and the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do” (Acts 9:5–6).

Those traveling with Saul were astounded because they saw no one, yet they heard the voice of Jesus and witnessed what happened to Saul. When he rose from the ground, Saul was blind although his eyes were open. So they led him by the hand into the city of Damascus. For three days, he could see nothing and he did not eat or drink anything.

Now, the Lord had spoken to a disciple named Ananias in Damascus and told him where to find Saul and what to do. Ananias was afraid because he had heard of Saul’s violent reputation, but the Lord assured him that He had chosen Saul as His instrument, so Ananias left to find him.

He went into the house where Saul was and did what God had instructed him to do. He laid his hands on Saul and told him he had been sent by Jesus to lay hands on him so he might regain his sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit. Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he regained his sight, arose and was baptized. For some days after that, he remained with the disciples at Damascus and began immediately to proclaim the gospel he had previously persecuted. He declared Jesus to be the Son of God, and all who heard him were amazed.

What a transformation! I would imagine that many of us wish our experience had been so astounding, but God knows what each of us needs and He provides it. I am sure Saul needed something quite spectacular to change his mind, and God met him where he was and gave him what he needed.

As we do our best to live for God and follow His leading in our lives, He will do the same for us. God has an amazing plan for you, and He wants you to succeed in becoming everything He created you to be. You can fulfill His purpose when you choose to please God first and foremost, and set yourself free from pleasing people. {eoa}

Joyce Meyer is a New York Times bestselling author and founder of Joyce Meyer Ministries, Inc. She has authored more than 135 books, including Battlefield of the Mind and The Power of Thank You (FaithWords). She hosts the Enjoying Everyday Life radio and TV programs, which air on hundreds of stations worldwide. For more information, visit .

Please note: The views and opinions expressed throughout this publication and/or website are those of the respective authors and do not necessarily reflect those of Joyce Meyer Ministries.

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We are living in a time where we are seeing Malachi 4:5-6 fulfilled: “See, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreaded day of the Lord. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse” (MEV).

Elizabeth Tiam-Fook recently gathered prophets to discuss mentoring the next generation. Elizabeth said, “A father teaches you identity, and a mother helps you process. The older generation should have an open door for the younger generation. If we are family, we all need a seat at the table. The church should model being family together.”

Patricia King is a pioneer in the prophetic ministry. She began by saying, “When you have a heart for those God brings you and those within your sphere, the love pours out. Mentoring the next generation of prophets comes out of loving them.”

She continued, saying, “When you have a heart to empower people, seeing the gold within them, you breathe on it and encourage it. It is so beautiful to see what God can do. The younger generation needs a lot of authentic ‘love discipline’ with affirmation and encouragement. All of us as ministers need to be looking for the gold in the people God is bringing us. We all have the Holy Spirit who is our mentor. We learn things by the Spirit. One of the key components for receiving mentorship is to honor the Holy Spirit and the leader before you. When there is honor, God absolutely loves it.”

Jeremiah Johnson said, “I am a product of spiritual mothering and fathering. I’ve been through a lot of rejection and persecution and I’ve made mistakes. But I’ve had to keep my heart soft and not grow bitter. Without spiritual fathers and mothers helping me in the process, I don’t know where I’d be.”

Jeremiah then said, “Without accountable relationships we develop a life in God without applying truths to ourselves. As leaders we need to make sure we are accountable to others. As we are leading and pioneering, we also need to be positioned to listen and receive. Leaders need to speak the truth about marriage and family and our ministries. We can’t let the applause get to our heads. I thank God for spiritual moms and dads that help hone our character and speak into our lives. Mothering and fathering is very relational but it needs to be focused on character more than spiritual gifting.”

Jamie Galloway stated, “I am going to carry the baton with the generation ahead of me and behind me. Our mission is to accomplish the mission of Jesus, which is to disciple all nations. We are to instruct people in the same way we’ve been instructed from previous generations.

“This is an exciting time in history where we have access to mentors who can invest in our lives. Are we discipling people toward career ministry? Or are we discipling people who are like Paul, who was a tentmaker and an apostle? We need to influence and disciple people to help change culture. Our focus needs to make Jesus famous, glorifying Him.”

You can watch the full discussion with Elizabeth Tiam-Fook, Patricia King, Sherman Dumas and Jamie Galloway to be encouraged and empowered to see mentoring take place between the generations. {eoa}

Jared and Rochelle Laskey co-founded Fireborn Ministries to teach believers how to live daily Spirit-empowered lives. You can find their resources and learn more about their ministry at . They also have e-courses such as Entry Level Prophecy, The Last Days, The Baptism with the Holy Spirit and more on , and the popular podcast Adventures in the Spirit, available anywhere you listen to podcasts.

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As Americans prepare to celebrate Father’s Day, Youth For Christ (YFC, ), a leader in the missional ministry community in America for 77 years, acknowledges and supports all fathers, no matter their age or capabilities. Through YFC’s Juvenile Justice Ministry and Parent Life programs, YFC leaders have the unique privilege of working with expectant and parenting teen moms and dads, coming alongside them during pivotal and trying times to provide loving encouragement and prayer.

Many young men in the justice system are young fathers, something that Alex Mathew, YFC’s local executive director, doesn’t take lightly. Mathew commented on how God has uniquely positioned YFC for such a time as this.

“We are not a normal youth ministry,” Mathew says, “so as we work with high-risk youth from juvenile offenders to teen parents, we want to have authentic Christ-sharing relationships. At Youth For Christ, my job is not to change people, but to model what Christ did for me and accept all my students like a father in Christ. If each dad knew that his role on earth is to be a father even to other people’s children, a lot of lives would be changed.”

The CDC reported that “teens need access to youth-friendly … support from parents and other trusted adults, who can play an important role in helping teens make healthy choices about relationships.” The support that YFC mentors supply for teen parents both in and out of the justice system is crucial for their mental, emotional and spiritual health during such a trying time in their lives.

One teen dad said, “My YFC mentor helped me with a lot of things, like how to become a better man, by guiding and helping me through the situations I am actually in.”

YFC chapters impact thousands of communities across the nation, seeking out and serving youth from all walks of life. Young people are silently struggling through a wide variety of challenging issues—and through the YFC ministry God empowers, they see the living power of a loving God. YFC trains its leaders in a proven, relational ministry model called 3Story®, which encourages staff and volunteers to be good news while also sharing the stories of the good news of Jesus. It involves building relationships through the ups and downs of everyday life to lead people to Christ.

YFC has been a pillar of missional ministry since 1944, when the Rev. Billy Graham served as YFC’s first full-time staff member. Since then, Youth For Christ has continued to be both a rural and urban ministry on mission, and it is always about the message of Jesus. YFC reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the Word of God and prayer, passion for sharing the love of Christ, and commitment to social involvement. Youth For Christ operates in over 100 nations and has over 130 chapters that impact communities across America.

Visit the Youth For Christ media page here. Learn more about Youth For Christ at its website, , Facebook and Instagram pages, Twitter feed @yfcusa or on Vimeo.

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When we procrastinate, we are just make excuses for why we aren’t doing what we know we should be doing. We are avoiding those tasks.

To procrastinate is to delay or put off doing something. An excuse is coming up with a reason to put off doing something. Basically, it’s the same thing.

I have heard many different reasons (or excuses) for why someone would procrastinate about losing weight. One big one is I need to take care of my family or others. It’s the caregiver excuse. They put off taking care of themselves because they haven’t been successful with that so they take care of others or do things for others.

Why? Because there is an instant gratification in doing that.

I Don’t Have Time to Work on Me

If that’s you, you may have said things like, “I don’t have time to work on myself,” “I would rather spend time with others than work on myself,” “I’m not important enough to work on me” or “I’ll just fail so let me do something I can do.”

If we aren’t taking care of ourselves, we aren’t loving ourselves. So that means if we are trying to love others like we love ourselves, which Mark 12:31 tell us, we aren’t doing a very good job of that either.

It’s really an excuse for not doing what we know God wants us to do. When I weighed 430 pounds, before I began my transformation journey, I had my time filled to the brim doing volunteer work, being on boards, teaching classes, joining groups. I had something to do all the time.

Filling My Emptiness

Why was I doing that instead of working on my obvious problem? Because I had been on every diet trying to lose weight on my own. I would lose weight and then when I got to goal weight, I’d celebrate by eating something sugary and decadent and would gain the weight back again plus more. Doing that, diets were only making me gain instead of lose.

So, I helped where I could be doing what I could. I knew I was trying to force myself to do things for God that were good works. The problem was, even though they were good things none of them were my passions. I knew that but I felt I had stepped out of my passion of writing when the Christian newspaper I was publishing folded.

Maybe I was trying to find something to fill that hole, but nothing was working because I was in big-time procrastination mode from doing what I knew down deep inside God wanted me to do. That was to find out how to lose weight and keep it off.

Looking Good to God

Still, any time that subject came up in my mind I put it aside and said like the famous procrastinator Scarlett O’Hara. “I’ll not think about that today. I’ll think about that tomorrow.” And of course, tomorrow never seemed to come. By the way, for all of you young people out there, that’s from the famous movie “Gone With the Wind.”

One might think running around keeping busy was good for me and would keep me from overeating but just the opposite was true. I was stressed to the max doing things I thought were good things but were not the main thing God wanted for me.

In reality, I was doing all these things to look good to God and others when all God wanted was for me to begin to take care of myself. I needed desperately to take care of myself. I weighed 430 pounds, had congestive heart failure, diabetes, high blood pressure and could barely walk.

I Am a Sugar Addict

Somewhere along there I went to a meeting and heard my mentor say these life-changing words. “Alcohol is one molecule away from sugar. Alcohol is liquid sugar.” Alcohol was never my problem. My paternal grandfather was an alcoholic and my dad drilled it into me that I should never drink.

I had never equated what I was doing with overeating especially desserts and any foods made with sugar and flour as being an addiction. But that day, God clearly revealed to me that I was a sugar addict.

I didn’t even know if sugar addiction was a thing but I knew if no one else in the world was one, I was. If sugar addiction was in the dictionary my picture would be right there to describe it.

Can This Battle Be Won?

Recently I got an email from a woman who shared with me that she feels like her food addiction is keeping here in a daily prison. She said that the battle she is in is consuming me and destroying her life. She added, “Can this battle ever be won?”

My answer to her and to those of you who feel the same way is yes, but not in your own strength. We need to apply Phil. 4:13 NLT: “I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength.”

The battle with food can only be broken by surrendering completely to Jesus and letting Him lead you on your journey.

What I learned is that transformation is a process of surrender, changing our habits, learning how to really listen to and follow what God wants us to do and giving up our excuses.

What Excuse Is in Your Way?

Why is it that we resist the things we know will help us get what we want? We want to be healthy and live the best life for God. So why are we putting off doing something about it?

We have the God of the universe on our sides. Our excuses and us are the only ones standing in our way. It’s time to get to work and do what God is calling us to do. Procrastination has to go.

Take the next right step.

Teresa Shields Parker is the author of six books and two study guides, including her No. 1 bestseller, Sweet Grace: How I Lost 250 Pounds. Her sixth book, Sweet Surrender: Breaking Strongholds, is live on Amazon. She blogs at . She is also a Christian weight loss coach (check out her coaching group at Overcomers Academy) and speaker. Don’t miss her podcast, Sweet Grace for Your Journey, available on CPN. This article first appeared on . For more on this subject, listen to Sweet Grace for Your Journey podcast 136, “Procrastination by Excuse.”

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Before I knew the Lord, I did a lot of things halfway—or almost all the way. In other words, I started a lot of things that I didn’t finish. I gave up when I got disinterested or when things got too hard.

Once I met Jesus, I got a determined heart. I was determined to finish anything He told me to start. I wanted to be like my Father, who is faithful to finish the good work He began in us. (See Philippians 1:6.)

It’s not always easy—in fact, it’s not usually easy—to finish what you start. That’s because there’s plenty of opposition, combined with natural fatigue and naysayers.

On a recent Mornings with the Holy Spirit broadcast, I had a vision. In the vision, I saw people who tend to give up halfway through what they start. They fainted in the day of adversity. (See Proverbs 24:10.) Every time something seems too difficult, every time there’s opposition, they just throw their hands up and give up. Then I prophesied these words:

“That way and that tendency in you must die. You must grab onto My way because My way is a way of persistence, and My way is a way of finishing. Just as My Son hung on that cross and said, ‘It is finished,’ you, too, will walk through this season and finish things that you started in past seasons and never completed.

“For this is the season of your crossing over. And this is the time for you to accept responsibility for the half-baked and half-finished projects that you started with enthusiasm but never completed. And I will bring to you increase and you will see and know that there is value in what I’ve told you to put your hand to.”

Click here to read the rest of this article. {eoa}

Jennifer LeClaire is an internationally recognized author, apostolic-prophetic voice to her generation, and conference speaker. She carries a reforming voice that inspires and challenges believers to pursue intimacy with God, cultivate their spiritual gifts and walk in the fullness of what God has called them to do. Jennifer is contending for awakening in the nations through intercession and spiritual warfare, strong apostolic preaching and practical prophetic teaching that equips the saints for the work of the ministry. Jennifer is senior leader of Awakening House of Prayer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, founder of the Ignite Network and founder of the Awakening Prayer Hubs prayer movement.

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Some time ago, I was in the process of selling my own home. Two realtors came by to show it to prospective buyers, and then they both left.

One realtor called me back and said, “Bill, I have a full-price offer on your house, and it’s for the terms we discussed. Will you take it?” I said, “Yes, I’ll take the offer.”

Five minutes later, the other realtor called and said, “Bill, I have an offer on your house. It’s all cash, and it’s $10,000 more than your full price. Will you take it?” As tempted as I was, I replied, “No, I can’t.” She asked, “Why not?” I said, “Well, I just told the other realtor that I would accept her offer.”

She said, “But you haven’t signed that offer yet.” I said, “I know, but I’ve given my word, and my word means more to me than the $10,000.” Needless to say, she was surprised that I declined her higher-priced offer.

Fast-forward to 15 years later.

I walked into a restaurant, and a woman jumped from her seat and said, “You’re Bill Wiese!” She went on to say, “I’m the realtor whose higher offer you turned down. I just want you to know that I was not a Christian then, but I went out that very night with a friend of mine who was a Christian. We talked about Christians, and she said that Christians have character and they keep their word.”

This woman went on to say, “I thought about you, and thought, here’s a guy that turned down $10,000 to keep his word.” She said, “I accepted the Lord that very night, and I’ve been serving God all these 15 years. I just want to thank you.”

Who would ever have thought that $10,000 would have something to do with this person getting saved? But you see, one of our witnesses to people is our life example. People notice how we live as Christians, and that’s something we must pay attention to.

As Charles Spurgeon said, “90% of (our witness) is through our life example.” Do we show up on time for work? Do we keep our word? Do we work with excellence? Do we show love to people that are ugly to us? Are we quick to forgive people? Those are the things that the world watches.

I gave my word and God used it to impact this woman’s salvation. She was watching me.

Psalm 49:8-9 (TLB) says, “For a soul is far too precious to be ransomed by mere earthly wealth. There is not enough of it in all the earth to buy eternal life for just one soul, to keep it out of hell.”

Just one soul. That’s how precious a person is to God. {eoa}

Bill Wiese is the author of the New York Times bestselling book 23 Minutes in Hell, the story of his life-changing visit to hell in 1998. Bill has since authored six additional book titles and continues to share his experience around the world. He and his wife, Annette, founded Soul Choice Ministries in late 2006 and have dedicated their lives to reaching the unsaved.

For more information about Bill Wiese and Soul Choice Ministries please visit us at You can find more of Bill’s teachings at .

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Prophets are being stirred from sleep to pray. Perhaps this is happening to you. You are being called to pray into the mighty work of the Lord in this hour.

Jane Hamon prophesied, saying, “Prophets from around the world agree: we have entered a new era in the church, the nations and in history. In times of great darkness in the earth God will cause His glory to shine on His church. And we will see one of the greatest harvests the earth has ever seen.”

Jane was given a dream, and within the dream she had a vision of the enemy’s plans.

She said, “I had a dream where a spiritual assignment was sent against a godly leader and reformer. The enemy’s name was Rabshakeh. And he was coming to spread poison on the back of the leader and then take a rod to beat his back. The back represents the man’s strength. The back was where Jesus was beaten so that we can receive our healing. But the enemy wanted to beat him down, afflicting him with poison. To rob from him and destroy him.”

Jane continued saying about her dream, “Before Rabshakeh could complete his mission of destruction, we alerted the authorities, who captured him. The authorities then led us out and put the enemy’s rods in our hands to beat his back. Rabshakeh’s name means ‘chief prince’ and is a demonic assignment against the reformers, leaders and even the nations today. Rabshakeh was the emissary of Sennacherib. He was a mouthpiece, sent to demoralize Hezekiah and his armies. Isaiah 36 gives the account of this evil man trying to get Hezekiah’s armies to quit and flee.

“Rabshakeh filled the air with accusations against who God is. He was against who the leaders were. But don’t let the enemy get in your head! There is a demonic mind control that is trying to talk believers out of their destinies on an individual basis and even trying to bring nations into subjection and submission. … Be strong and courageous. Be not afraid nor dismayed. Hezekiah cried out to God at the altar and sent for the prophet Isaiah to hear the word of the Lord. Isaiah the prophet declared in Isaiah 37:33-35 (NKJV), ‘Thus says the Lord … “He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor build a siege mound against it. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return; and he shall not come into this city,” says the Lord. “For I will defend this city, to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.”‘ That very night God sent an angel to slay 185,000 Assyrians, and Sennacherib and Rabshakeh returned home and were killed by their own people.

“At the end of my dream, the rod of punishment which the enemy sought to be used against the godly leader was used against him! The Lord turned the evil that the enemy meant against the leader back on his own head. Hear the word of the Lord! The voice of the Lord will shatter your enemy; with His scepter He will strike him down. Rise up, reformers; lift your heads, all you leaders. Seek the Lord and hear His voice. Everything you are fighting against, every Rabshakeh assignment to get in your head and accuse you will be shattered by the voice of the Lord. The voice of the Lord shatters your enemy.” {eoa}

Watch the word from Jane Hamon here.

Jared and Rochelle Laskey co-founded Fireborn Ministries to teach believers how to live a daily Spirit-empowered life. You can find their resources and learn more about their ministry at . They also have e-courses such as Entry Level Prophecy, The Last Days, The Baptism with the Holy Spirit and more on , and the popular podcast Adventures in the Spirit, available anywhere you listen to podcasts.

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While praying in tongues before a service, Chuck Pierce saw an angel come down to earth with a key. The angel fit the key into the ground, then said, “Get ready for a root ride.”

Right after the angel spoke, roots started exploding out of the ground.

Pierce says that the roots started moving underneath him and the rest of the congregation, but he explains that the roots were not just ordinary roots. The roots were made of words.

“Now, I didn’t plan to do any of this, so don’t ask me what it means. That is not my job tonight,” Pierce said. “My job is just to tell you what’s about to come up by your legs and start moving.”

Pierce continues, “Either it’s going to catch you or you’re going to have to catch it.”

He says that the roots came from five layers down, which he assumes means five centuries. And the first word on them was “prosperity.”

“All of a sudden it came out and it went up, up between some of you,” Pierce says. “Some of you need to say, ‘I want to ride that root out.'”

Pierce says that prosperity is about to move like it hasn’t been able to in the last five centuries.

The next word was “revolution.”

“These words were in reddish gold,” Pierce says. “[The root was like an] incredible… living… heartbeat, and all of a sudden, it penetrated and came out of the ground.”

God said to Pierce, “If you get on the root of revolution, I’ll give you revelation over how to ride it.”

The third, fourth and fifth words seemed related. “Liberation” and “captivity breakout” were the last ones he listed. Pierce says that many of us are called to be liberators.

Although Pierce isn’t sure of the overall meaning yet, he says of the roots, “When they hit the atmosphere, it wasn’t God’s choice. It was our choice to get on it and take us where it needed to take us. This is going to be our choice to jump on these next roots that are now coming up to display and move and produce the fruit for this season in our bloodlines and in this nation.”

For the entire prophetic word, click here. {eoa}

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