Testing in This Year
January 1, 2004 (Thursday Evening)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley
Some of you are going to face things this year that will be a great test. I mean, greater than what you would anticipate this evening, a great test to how you’ll stand.
And the greatest part about it is,I feel in the Spirit that there’s going to be a special anointing on all of those who will come to that place,and line theirselves up under the leak to catch that promise from the Lord,that something will rise up in you,and you will be amazed yourselfand amaze others at the faith that sustains you.
And because you allow faith to sustain you,I see God reversing the curse and turning things back, and placing them in proper order in your life. You will never see the victory God has promised, compromising with the devil.You’ll never see the victory that God has promised, compromising with your flesh.
Slipping Free of the Taskmasters
January 1, 2004 (Thursday Evening)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
And so tonight is where we’ve got to realize and recognize that this is not just a little simple Gospel message that we think we’ve heard over and over again. But it’s a prophetic declaration, hallelujah, that God wants to sow into your spirit. Hallelujah.
And I no more than said that, I no more than spoke that, but God even brought my wife… And I haven’t thought like this. But God even brought my wife before my eyes. Just as I was speaking that. And I live with her and I love her and I don’t consider her to be a bound person, ‘cause I know she ministers behind the scenes in ways that people never know about. Thank God. Thank God they don’t. Some of the things she does and says to people, and how she moves and works.
But as I moved over this way, I just saw her before my face and I just realized that God wanted me also to declare that promise to her. She’d be busy with children and so forth and might not could come and stand here and accept the promise. But I just felt like God wanted me to declare over my own wife that whatever the taskmasters that the enemy would use against her, against her mind, God wanted her to be able to slip free of those this year. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
And my wife is a type of the Bride, just like every woman is. But significantly, because I’m the leader that’s been called to pastor you. So significantly, she’s a type of the whole church. And so the Lord just brought it in that way. Hallelujah. I claim, claim… (Tongues) Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to God.
Holy Ghost Waterfall
January 1, 2004 (Thursday Evening)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
I just saw in the Spirit, in the Spirit I just saw the Holy Ghost just desiring to fall. He’s hanging over, just desiring to fall on us like a waterfall. Hallelujah. Glory. Like water that’s been held off of our heads, and God just wanted to dump it down like a washtub on somebody’s head.
Year of Slaying Giants
January 1, 2004 (Thursday Evening)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
And you know what I believe? I believe 2004 is going to be the year of slaying giants. And I believe it’s going to be a year… And I can only tell you how I saw it. I saw it in the Spirit like a man rolling off these heavy weighted, like yokes. But a little different than that.
Bands, heavy, heavy, like bands. Harnesses would be a word. I could see it like Samson. His head, a man’s head sort of stuck through like this, you know, and these heavy harnesses coming down over their shoulders.
You know why? Because the devil wants us grinding. This mighty servant of God, strongest man in all the land, given anointing by God to kill the lion. And God was so good to him in his victory that when he came back to the lion, he stuck his hand in the carcass of that old lion. And God had caused the bees to make him dessert, so that he could take honey to his parents.
And this same man of God, laid his head in Delilah’s lap, forfeited his calling for a season, staggered into his own desires, became drunk with his own lust. And where did he end up? In the dungeon somewhere, grinding at the millstone, with his eyes plucked out, with these heavy harnesses.
But I could see in the Spirit that this is going to be a year, oh hallelujah, of releasing yourself. Huh? From those harnesses that are not the harnesses of the Lord, but the harnesses of a taskmaster.
Prophesy to the Circumstances
January 6, 2004 (Tuesday Evening)
Prophecy given through Brother Billy Tebo
For I would say unto thee, (Tongues), prophesy to the situations. (Tongues) Prophesy to the circumstances. (Tongues) Oh, for I say unto thee, as ye see the hour approaching, as ye see that hour approaching (Tongues), find your positions. Hallelujah.
Find that Anointing, yea, that prophetic Anointing that I have called this ministry to walk in. For I would say unto thee, the time is nigh at hand. And that very soon that Anointing that I’ve prepared for thee, that I’ve only waved above your head, it’s even at your heads even tonight. It’s getting ready to fall in a powerful way. For thus saith the Lord. Hallelujah. (Tongues)
Making an Appointment with Us Today
January 11, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley
I could hear the Spirit of God saying earlier in this service, just before the Lord blessed Sister Flo in such a wonderful way. And that’s special to all of us. The Lord often blesses her, but it was special to us this morning.
Some of the visitors wouldn’t know this. But it’s only last week she buried her daughter. And Jessica and her husband and little boy are with us this morning. And to see the Lord just pouring His Spirit down like that, it’s so wonderful. Because there is no peace. You know, you try to get your mind off of hurts and problems and losses, and only for a little while.
You know, some people watch a movie to get their mind off of things. But when the movie is over, you think right back to your problems. Some people do all kinds of things. But oh, when we come into the Presence of the Lord, then He just eases everything for us.
And just before the Lord blessed her, I heard the Spirit of God saying. And I almost toke the mic. But it didn’t just seem like the right time. But I heard the Spirit of the Lord saying, “With many of you I have made an appointment today.” And I could just hear that. “With many of you I have made an appointment today.”
And of course, then my mind started working. And as my mind started working, I could hear that old message that we’ve all listened to over the years. “Jesus Keep all of His Appointments.” Hallelujah.
You know, some people, you just can’t trust them. I heard a prophet of God say, “A man is only as good as his word.” I can’t have confidence in anybody’s ministry that can’t keep their word. I’m just honest.
But you know, when Jesus promises to show up, He’s going to show up. And if Sister Crawford was here this morning, she would sing for you, “He may not come when you want Him, but He’s right on time.”
When He does come, when He does make an appointment, He always keeps that appointment. And I just heard the Spirit saying, “With many of you I have made an appointment today.” Glory to God.
Prepare Me a Place
January 11, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley
And I sat down in my chair, and I put my briefcase on my lap. And the Spirit of the Lord began to speak to me. And He said these words, “Prepare Me a place. Prepare Me a place. Prepare Me a place.”
And I said, “Yes, Lord.” I remembered. Those words are familiar to me. You spoke that to us before. And I couldn’t remember. (You can be seated.) I couldn’t remember where I had heard it. I mean where the Lord had spoken it. When, when He had spoken it.
And I heard it again three times. “Prepare Me a place. Prepare Me a place. Prepare Me a place.” And all of a sudden it dawned on me. “Do you know where?” Sure, Sister Elfrieda knows where. Sister Nancy knows where. Three times I heard it, “Prepare Me a place.”
And I remembered what I had. I don’t usually carry them. I don’t normally have them. But early in the meetings I stuck few visions in my briefcase. They’ve been there ever since. I’ve not taken them out. And I just grabbed the transcripts. And it was the last thing that the Spirit of God spoke in the second vision, “Prepare Me a place. Prepare Me a place. Prepare Me a place.”
And somehow, I sense tonight the pleasure and the favor of the Lord. You say, “Oh, God is so busy, He doesn’t have time to care about one little group of people, one little church, and what they’re doing.”
That’s not the God that I serve. He’s ever mindful of His children, wherever they are, whatever they’re doing, whatever their needs are. He’s just God, and He can keep up with all of us at one time. Know what we’re doing, and what we need, and what we don’t need, and we’re doing what we’re supposed to. And when we’re doing what we’re not supposed to. God knows all of that.
And as I sat there, I just sensed such a pleasure, the joy and the peace of the Lord, because we were being obedient. Five years later, but obedient. Because He said, “I want you to prepare…”
Well I don’t have it now. I stuck it back in the briefcase. It would take too long to dig it out. But He was talking about a place where people could come and experience deliverance. And He said they’ll come.
Provision for the Parking Lot
January 11, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
I saw the parking lot. I looked out across in the vision when I looked and saw that building sitting there. And I looked out and I saw that beautiful paved parking lot that I’ve been so worried about. I’ve seen it now, by faith, in the Spirit. And I believe God’s going to provide for it to be there.
I believe when we’re finished, this time, this project, I believe when we’re finished, we’re going to be at least a third of the way. And maybe more than a third of the way finished with what the Lord’s calling us to build on this property. I believe that.
And we’ve got a couple more big projects after this. But I just believe that every bit of it is going to fall in line. I even believe, still. I had a vision of a lake, a pond. And I still believe that one-day God’s going to make a way. There’s going to be a pond on this property, because I saw it in the Spirit. And God’s just faithful. And His people are faithful. Amen.
Made an Appointment
January 11, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley
I heard the Spirit of the Lord saying, “With many of you I have made an appointment today.”
And I could just hear that. “With many of you I have made an appointment today.”
And of course, then my mind started working. And as my mind started working, I could hear that old message that we’ve all listened to over the years. “Jesus Keeps All of His Appointments.”
Relates Dry Bones Vision Given in Jerusalem in 1979
January 25, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Shared by Brother Shelley
You stand in the middle of that room, and the music is ominous sounding music. And all of a sudden, I broke into vision. And all of a sudden, I broke into vision. And I saw myself standing just like Ezekiel stood, in a valley of dry bones. And heard the Word of the Lord say to me, “Son of man, prophesy to these bones and they shall live again.” And it was in that very room, that very moment, that God placed a love in my heart for the land of Israel, and the people that live there.
Pulling on the Heartstrings of the Backslider
February 1, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
Before we started singing that song, just as I came to the platform, and you continued to worship the Lord there, I had a strange but a short vision.
I saw a human heart. Just as plain as I could see anything. Not a Valentine heart, but a human heart with its arteries and ventricles, sticking off to the side. And I saw, like a garment slip around this heart, like a piece of cloth. And I saw that it, this piece of material had lace. Not lace, it had lace holes, it had holes. Eyelets. That’s right. It had eyelets.
And I saw that these eyelets had, what looked like leather strings. You know, like a leather shoestring. And it was running through the eyelet. And I saw this garment, this piece of material, as it was folded around the heart. And I saw, what I believe in the Spirit, to be the hand of the Lord, lacing back and forth. This, through the eyelets, like you would lace your shoe back and forth. And when the lace had gone back and forth all the way, I could see two, both hands take a hold of the lace and pull it. And as these strings were pulled, that corset, is the word that came, like a corset, like what women would wear years ago to hold in their waist. This piece of a garment, like a corset, that was around this heart, when these strings were pulled there at the end, to be tied, it pulled that heart in. Cinched it in.
And I thought, this is so strange. That’s the reason I just tarried and paused, and waited and thought a moment. What is this that the Lord was showing me? This human heart being cinched in like a corset. Does anybody understand what I’m describing?
And I felt the Lord drop then the knowledge, the understanding of that down in my heart. I’ve been praying for backsliders. And I have been seriously praying for a month now, praying. And I believe that the knowledge of that dropped down in my heart. That was God. You know, we used to say. We’d hear something that was sad or something, we’d say, “That was pulling on my heartstrings.” You know the expression I’m talking about? It was as though God was cinching in that heart, pulling in that heart.
Now I know God doesn’t dwell in that human heart. But the word “heart” in the Bible is a prophetic word. And we know when God is living in our heart, He’s not living in that organ called the heart. It’s a spiritual thing.
But I saw that in vision, how that God was cinching and lacing, and pulling in that heart. And I believe that’s what the Lord is doing, even because of your prayers and your faithfulness. I believe God’s pulling on the heartstrings of many, many backsliders. And you know, when we’ve been praying. When we pray, we often say, “Lord, just go out in this neighborhood, and in this area, and draw in the backslider.”
Well, a lot of times we’re talking about people we know, that have fallen away from the Lord. But you know, there are people out there that we don’t know, that God is drawing and pulling, pulling on their heartstrings. Just this very day I had a brother say to me. Just this very day I had a man say to me, “I’m backslid.” And you know, God hears those kinds of things. And I just pray tonight. Not only for that man who spoke that, but all these we’ve been praying about. I believe the Lord was showing me that He’s pulling those heartstrings. Hallelujah. Tightening things up in the…
You know, God will get on somebody, and they can’t get rid of Him. You know, when the Holy Ghost starts working on somebody, they shake Him. But they can’t shake Him off. Hallelujah. How many of you’ll believe with me right now that God. I didn’t feel faith. How many of you’ll believe with me right now that every person that needs God tugging on their heartstrings, that the Lord will just be released right now to deal and pull, and tighten up. Hallelujah.
I don’t know what that had to do with the way the service was going. But Lord, we just thank You for that. We take it as a promise tonight. When You show a vision like that, it doesn’t always seem to fit into the service at that moment. But Lord, we take it as a promise that You’re going to pull heartstrings, and tighten up. And Lord, pull people back to a relationship with You. (Tongues)
Lord, we thank You for the breaking of every fetter, for the setting free of the captive. In the wonderful Name of Jesus. Hallelujah. We thank You for restoring the ankle bones, glory to God, that have lost their strength. We thank You. We speak to those ankles, oh, that are weak. Oh, they’ve been strong. Ankles that have been strong and have stood strong, but they’ve become weak.
And when your ankles are weak, they can’t support the weight of Your body. Lord, right now we prophesy to those ankles that have become weak and weary, and can no longer support the spiritual life. Lord, we pray and speak and prophesy strength to those ankles. In the Name of Jesus. Oh hallelujah. Glory be to God. Raise up, Lord, strength from on high, to fill those vessels that have become weak. Hallelujah.
Don’t Underestimate the Blood of Jesus
February 8, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Prophecy given through Brother Shelley
I hear the Spirit of God saying… I hear the Spirit of God saying in my spirit the thing that He had to say to Peter. “What God hath cleansed, what God hath cleansed, call ye not common and unclean. What God hath cleansed.”
Don’t underestimate the grace of God. Don’t underestimate the blood of Jesus. Quit selling yourself short of what God has done in your life. Just reach right up and God will restore you. Every last one of us, He wants to place us right back in the center of His plan for our lives. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
The God of Restoration
February 8, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Prophecy given through Brother Shelley
Knowest thou not that I am the God of restoration, saith the Lord. Knowest thou not that it is I, who has called You? Knowest thou not that it is I, who saw you before you were ever born? And knew you, saith the Lord. Yea, I have seen you in this hour. And I have known your shortcomings. Yea, I’ve seen your sin and the weakness of your life.
But yea, I the Lord thy God would say unto thee, I am your strength. And I shall bear you even under My wings, saith the Lord, and bring you back to Myself. I shall draw you, saith the Lord, unto My bosom. And you shall know My Presence again. For yea, I am the God of restoration. And yea, I call unto thee. In the Spirit be bold. Be strong, saith the Lord. For I am working My purposes in you.
Yea, I am birthing in you new visions, saith the Lord. New dream, new purpose, new destiny. Yea, I’m birthing in you My call, that must be fulfilled in your life. Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, reach up to Me with all that is within you. And I shall receive you, saith the Lord. And shall restore to you all that the enemy has stolen away.
For yea, it shall come, saith the Lord, not in measure. But in fullness. And you shall soon say, “I’m closer to God and farther along than I’ve ever been.” For I am the God of restoration. So saith the Holy One. (Tongues)
Repairing the Disconnects in our Life
February 8, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
I just saw in the Spirit a little vision, as I stood here and reverencing the Lord and the Presence. I’m not an electrician. And you all know I don’t know much about those kinds of practical things.
But I saw just before me a small electrical box, like a breaker box, that the panel, dividing panel had been taken off. And I could see into the box. I could see the breakers. But I could also see wires going among those breakers, and feeding out through the back.
And I saw what looked like wires that had, that were frazzled. And that had looked like plastic. The coating had melted back, and the heat had become too intense, that the wires were melted in two.
And I heard the Spirit of the Lord say that it was… I just have to tell you what He said. That it was like a nervous breakdown. Maybe that’s kind of what a nervous breakdown is like in the human body. You know, this burning out of the nerves, the wires, so to speak. And God said it was like a nervous breakdown.
And the Lord just wanted me to say that publicly to you, to whoever would need to hear. God sees what has happened in your life. He sees what’s happened in your natural life, your physical life. He sees what’s happened in your spiritual life. And all of that frustration that has built up, and all of those different things that the enemy was using, it caused a melt-down. It caused wires that were connected to give power to different things, to be burned in two. And when the wires burned in two, it no longer connects the source of power with that, that needs the power. Then you’ve got a problem. You’ve got a shut-down. Don’t you?
Speaking as someone who has survived something very similar to a nervous breakdown some years ago, although they don’t use that term any more. The doctors call it anxiety attacks, and panic attacks, and so forth. But years ago, they said, like a nervous breakdown. And knowing how that everything can be so well connected in your life. And just all of a sudden, you’ll just get short-circuited, you know. And it seems like you just aren’t connected any more. And why the Lord would say that I’m not exactly sure. But I just want you to know.
Everybody, and whoever God would be speaking to especially. God wants you to know that He knows what has happened in your life, and what has caused you to be in the condition spiritually, that you’re in right now. But the same God who loves you enough to look down into your life and see the condition of your…
Does that sound crazy? To see the condition of your panel box. I mean, that’s what God does. He looks right down into the inside of the inside. He sees us right in there. The God who loves you enough that He could look right down into that inside and see the disconnection, that same God that would reveal that to me and give me the courage to say something that sounds so silly. Yet I know God uses the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. So I tried to be obedient. That same God is the God who is able to repair, to renew, to rewire, to reconnect, to heal all of the damage. That’s the Word of the Lord.
We receive the promise. You know, I’m not ashamed to say, I receive it in my own life. Hallelujah. Lord, we desire to know the power of God that we have once known. (Tongues) Oh hallelujah. Reconnect us. Heal us. Restore us. Let us be rewired in Your Presence.
Blowing on the Embers & Fanning the Flame
February 12, 2004 (Thursday Evening)
Prophetic Word & Vision given through Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
I was sensing in the Spirit that Israel has become more and more prepared over the last few years to face her enemies from without. I know she is giving a lot of attention also to the Palestinian problems, but her biggest military concern has been from Syria, from other places. She’s preparing to protect herself from attacks from without.
But I felt the Lord dealing with me that she is not prepared, nor could she stop, even if she was prepared, what God is about to do to get her attention. You know, it wasn’t a very pleasant feeling that I was having.
But I just sensed that this is just the beginning. You know, this little earthquake is just the beginning. Even the newspaper today, the Jerusalem Post, said. I forgot exactly what the headlines was, but it said, “The Big One is Coming.”
You know, because the scientists have said for years that there would be a great earthquake in this area. And after yesterday, they really have considered and looked at it. And every one thousand years, there has been a terrible serious devastating earthquake in this region, and the region of the Middle East.
But I sensed that it wasn’t just earthquakes. But I saw the Lord calling for weather, great weather changes. I saw it like patterns that were being laid out on a piece of paper, and tracing around the patterns.
And yet I knew that it wasn’t the pattern for making something, it was weather patterns that God was laying a pattern down for the weather, that it would be different. That God would also use weather.
And then I saw that God was going to allow sickness upon the leadership of Israel. Upon the Knesset members and upon the powers that be, that many of them are going to face sickness and peril in their own personal lives. Not because God doesn’t love them, but because He does. And it’s another way that He can call to them and speak to them about the mistakes that they’re making in giving anything away for the cost of peace.
You know, I understand. As an outsider living in a different nation, I understand what they’re thinking. They’re thinking, but they’re thinking with the natural mind. They’re thinking, “If we give them this piece of land, it will bring safety and peace for our people. We’re trying to protect our people.” But that’s because they’re thinking with human mentality, and not God’s mentality. And they think if they give something away, they’re protecting themselves.
But when I was thinking that, in the Spirit, that’s when I got that idea, they’re paying this price for peace to protect themselves. But what they need to fear is not the Palestinians, it’s not Syria. They need to fear falling into God’s anger, and God being displeased. And I feel like that God is very displeased. And that’s why He’s trying to wake things up.
Vision:
And then I’ve had one other little vision. And I saw what looked like the Angel of the Lord, that He was kneeling down on all fours. And He was blowing into something. And I saw His cheeks were puffing, as he was blowing into something. And then I… But His hands were kind of cupped in front of Him like this. And when He moved His hands, I saw that it was tiny little embers from a fire that had once been probably a great fire. But it had burned down. Only tiny little embers left. With just a little bit of redness.
And I saw that the Lord was blowing on those embers, desiring to sort of fan the flame and cause the fire to rise up. So all of this is happening very soon. But I wanted to speak it, because I believe that it won’t be so far into the future that we start hearing about sicknesses and some of those things. God just allowing that. It happens just to show them, “I’m in control, and you don’t need to forget about Me when you’re making your…”
I think it’s very prophetic that the crack in the ceiling was the main one. One of the reports says it was right in the doorway. The exit, one of the reports said, instead of the entrance. But perhaps there’s just one door. But it said that there was a crack in the exit way of Mr. Sharon’s office. And that kind of sounds prophetic. His exit. As though God is saying to him, “You’d better get back to the promises that you made, and you better hear My Voice, or you’re on your way out.” That’s what I was getting in the Spirit. So, I know it’s little pieces, and they may not make sense. But I know the Lord was…
Go Forth & Bear My Name
February 14, 2004 (Saturday Morning)
Prophecy given through Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
For the Lord would say unto thee, My children. Israel of old has known My works, saith the Lord. She has known My works. She has seen My mighty deeds. Yea, she has seen the great things that I have done. But yea, the Lord would say unto thee, I have not revealed to My Bride only My works, but yea, I have revealed to her My ways.
And yea, the Lord would say unto thee, this time when I reveal Myself through My people in this land, yea, it shall not be by My works alone. But yea, I shall reveal My ways. Yea, I shall reveal My character, who I am, saith the Lord. And she shall not love Me because of what I do, but she shall love Me because of who I am. Yea, the Lord would call unto thee this morning, do not love Me and serve Me because of what your eyes have seen Me do, but come to Me with love, because of who I am.
For yea, it is My desire to reveal Myself unto you, saith the Lord, in ways that You have never known, in depth that you have only begun to plunge into, saith the Lord. For yea, I have ways and there are depths in My love and My mercy, that You have never gone into. But I call You in this hour, surrender to be molded, to be squeezed into shape, saith the Lord. For I desire to fill you with My Glory, and use you on My table, saith the King of kings.
Yea, the Lord would call unto thee. For this is a critical hour. Not only in this nation, but in the nations of the world. For this is the time when nation shall again rise against nation. And there shall be turmoil and sickness, and peril on every side.
But yea, I shall show Myself mighty through My people, saith the Lord. So I call you, saith God, to draw near to Me in this hour, so that you may go forth and reflect who I am. Not only My works, but who I am must be on display, saith the Lord. For I have called thee, and I have redeemed thee, and I have revealed unto thee My Name. And therefore go forth and bear My Name, saith the Lord. Hallelujah. (Tongues)
Return to Your God
February 14, 2004 (Saturday Morning)
Spiritual Song, Sung by Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
He is Yeshua, He is Yeshua
He is Yeshua, our God
(Repeat)
Hear, oh Israel. Hear, oh Israel
Hear, oh Israel, the Lord is One
(Repeat)
Return, return. We call return, return
Oh return to Your God
Oh return, return.
We call return, return
Oh, return to Your God
The Lamb is worthy…
Being Molded by the Pressure of the Potter’s Hand
February 14, 2004 (Saturday Morning)
Vision given to Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
But as though a video or a movie just began to unfold before my eyes. And I saw myself walking into an old room, a dark, sort of dark room with, you know, not a very finished room, finished floor. Almost like a cave looking building.
And I saw a potter sitting on a little place, a little stool, with a potter’s wheel in front of him. And there was a little oil lamp beside him. And I remembered, as I was seeing this again, I remembered that somehow in the Spirit in the night I had visited with this potter. And I found that so strange.
And the Lord kept speaking a Word to me, a phrase to me, as I watched this scene. I saw the potter as he was making out this clay. I saw him as he would reach into the, into a bowl of water and he would keep wetting the clay. Because, you know the clay has a tendency, as it’s spinning, the force of the spinning and the air that is created has a tendency to dry out the clay.
And I could see the water being applied to the clay. I saw the potter several times starting over, because perhaps too much pressure was applied, or not enough pressure was applied. And the vessel took on a shape or a form that he was not pleased with.
So metaphorically, you know. Because we’ve heard this before. We all are familiar with the vision that God gave Jeremiah. I can read it, and almost see it in my mind. But I appreciate the Lord. Because in this last night He made it so real to me, as though I was Jeremiah, and though He had called me to the potter’s house.
And I saw at least two or three times how the potter would just start over. He would just crush the clay all the way down into a lump, and take it off and round it up again and throw it back on the wheel. All the time his foot was pressing the pedal, so that the wheel would continue to turn.
And I knew that the Lord was speaking to me about several different things, several different aspects. I kept hearing the phrase, “Applied pressure. Applied pressure.” And I could, as the potter would use the insides of his thumbs. It was kind of a strange thing that I could focus in and see how that the potter was using the inside of his thumbs to apply the amount of pressure that was needed to cause the clay to mold upon into a vessel that he wanted.
So as I was sitting there, all these different Scriptures began to run over in my spirit concerning the potter and the potter’s wheel. And I believe that the Lord would have me to share a few of these scriptures with you this morning. I didn’t feel so prepared with all kinds of outlines and notes, because I knew that God had given me this little simple Word, because He wanted me to share it.
And I believe it has a two-fold meaning. I believe that God is speaking to us concerning the nation of Israel this morning. I believe that He’s also speaking to us as individual believers, that God of course desires to continue to mold us and make us. And then I heard a phrase. I’m getting a little bit ahead of myself. But then I heard the Lord say, “And Jerusalem is My furnace.”
In the Spirit, when I was in the potter’s house, I could see something also, as the potter used these iron instruments to remove the vesselsfrom the fiery kiln and place them on a shelf to cool down,the temperature to cool down.
And the thing that, the last thing that I rememberin this little spiritual experience, is I remember the vessel being cooled, and I remember seeing the potter fill this vessel with water.And I was amazed at how. . .I don’t want to say daintily,but so carefully he raised this vessel to his lips to drink the water.
And the thing that impressed me the most…I jotted it down because I didn’t want to forget it.It was the same hands,the same hands that knew how to apply the pressure. It took the applied pressure to form the vessel.But these same hands knew how to be gentle enough, and loving enough, and caring enoughto raise up this vessel with carefulness,to drink out of it and place it carefully back on the table, or on the shelf. The same hands.
And God was just promising me in my heartthat even though those hands, the hands of God, apply the pressure, those are also the same hands that hold us, and that keep us,and that protect us, and love us and caress us.I tell you, we can feel God sometime hugging us,you know, in the Spirit, holding on to us.
And we just, when we feel that way, we want to cry, “Lord, don’t ever let me go.Don’t ever turn loose of me.Just hold me and keep me this way.”
I don’t know what tomorrow holds, but I know Who holds tomorrow.
And so this morning as we close the service,I see the nation of Israel on the Potter’s wheel.I see her there, that God is still molding and making.And she has yet to experience the fulness of her furnace.
But I also see the Bride of Christ, as God is molding us and making us, and placing us in that furnace. Because our… His purposes in us have not yet come to fulness. And our destiny, we’ve not come to the completenessof what He’s purposed in our lives.
Prepare Yourself for the King of Glory
February 19, 2004 (Thursday Morning)
Spiritual Song, Sung by Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
Break through, break through, break through (tongues)
Lift up your head, oh ye gates
Prepare yourself for the King of Glory
Prepare yourself for the King of Glory
For there shall be more signs
For I shall show forth more signs, saith the Lord
For Israel has been a people who have followed Me with signs
So I shall show forth many signs, saith the Lord
I shall shake, I shall cause shiftings
I shall cause sign posts to be raised up, saith the Lord,
For Israel to see and know My will
Yeah I shall call the liberals back
Yeah I shall cause the non-religious to return,
To observe My ways, saith the Lord
For there shall be a revolution among My chosen
Exposing the Treasures
February 19, 2004 (Thursday Evening)
Vision given to Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
Lord, I see that You’re going to scratch away the dirt. I see in the Spirit, Lord, that You’re going to scratch away and pull away the dirt that covers up the ancient treasures. Lord, for they are ancient testimonies that are hidden under the soil. Yes, there are ancient treasures and testimonies of Your faithfulness, that are hidden under the soil throughout this land.
And I see, Lord, that You’re going to scratch away the dirt and dig down and expose the treasures, Lord, as a sign to those who have drifted. Drifted, Lord, not away from the thoughts of men, but those who have drifted away from Your Word and Your ways. Hallelujah.
Pouring into Us as Needed
February 21, 2004 (Saturday Morning)
Prophetic Word & Vision given to Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
Hallelujah. From Your hand, oh God, we receive Your blessing. From Your hand we receive the Challah, we receive the Bread of Heaven, the Bread of Sabbath, the Bread of rest, the bread of peace, we receive it right now.
Shalom bread, the showbread, that was before the holy places, we receive that, oh God. We receive it like David did. Yes, yes, yes. We receive it, Lord. We know in the natural it’s not for us, but You’ve made us spiritual priest. It’s our bread, and we receive it gladly from You. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
I just saw in the Spirit another strange little vision. I saw a recipe being used and made, perhaps like a cake was being made. But I saw a bowl that was placed in the mixer. and the mixer was mixing the ingredients in the bowl. But I saw that according to the recipe all of the flour, it looked like flour, was not to be added at one time and then mixed. But it was to be added gradual. As the mixer was doing the mixing, the flour was to be added in gradually, not all at one time.
And I think the Lord is saying to us. I believe from that little vision, the Lord is saying to us, “All that you need and all that I’ve purposed for you doesn’t come at one time. But I’m pouring it in as it’s needed.” But the finished product, we know what the finished product is going to be. It’s going to be completeness and wholeness in Him.
God doesn’t dump in everything that we have need of sometimes, all at one time. But oh, the wisdom of the recipe.
Lord. You know sometimes women get ahead of the recipe and they make a flop. They make a mess. You can’t dump all the flour in if the recipe says, “Add it gradually,” then you can’t make it right. If it says, “Beat gently,” and you beat it to death. You’ve got to follow the recipe.
And Lord, we want that divine recipe to be followed in our life. Forgive us if we complain. Forgive us, Lord, if we complain that things aren’t happening fast enough. You know us, and you know it’s not our desire to murmur against the Living God. Our flesh just gets in our way. Give us grace. Hallelujah.
God Passing Us Provision
February 21, 2004 (Saturday Morning)
Prophetic Word & Vison given to Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
In haste, in haste, in haste. I hear a Word in my spirit saying, “In haste. The children of Israel left Egypt in haste.” There was no time for their bread to rise. They were told to gather their coats and cloaks around them and be ready to go. For when the Lord said “Go,” they would have to go. There would be no time for packing. There would be no time for extra baggage. They would have to be ready. Now I hear the Lord saying, “Prepare. That we should prepare ourselves, for in haste the Lord will move us.” Hallelujah.
I will move you in haste, saith the Lord. Gird up thy loins. Gird up thy loins and be ready for movement. Gird up thy loins and be ready for moving. I am closing doors behind you, and opening new doors before you, says the Lord. Your bread will not have time to rise, neither will you have time to gather all of your stuff. For the Lord would say unto thee, Prepare now. Prepare now for that which You will take. Prepare now for that which you will carry over with you, saith the Lord. Hallelujah.
Some things that pertain to flesh. Some things have pertained to man, you’ll leave in Egypt. Some things that pertain to the natural, you’ll leave behind. You’ll only take the jewels and gems of the Spirit, the things that I’ve given you by the Spirit. Even natural possessions that I’ve not given you by the arms of flesh, but there are things that I’ve given you by the Spirit.
Even clothes that you wear, and things that you use. But they’ve not been given to you by the arms of men, or the hands of men. They’ve been given to you by My hand, in the Spirit, saith the Lord. Hallelujah.
I was just seeing a vision. And in that vision I saw the hand, I assumed the hand of the Lord passing to us a tray. And on that tray was the braided Challah. I saw the braided Challah on that tray. And I was reminded. Last night we didn’t have a big meal, we just had a small Shabbat meal here in the house. Didn’t have the big thing and invite a lot of people in. But in doing so, we just passed the Challah around. But you know, the Jewish people never do it that way. They never pass just the Challah. It’s always passed on a tray or on a cover. Sometimes they’ll take the cover, the Challah cover, and put the Challah on the cover and pass it. But there is always something under it.
Do you know why? Do you know why there is always a tray or always a covering? It symbolizes that the Challah has not come by the hands of man. If you pass the bread just hand to hand like we do, as brothers and sisters. We just take the bread and pinch it off and hand you, and you pinch off.
But the Jews never do it that way. It’s always passed on a tray to symbolize that this is not come by my hand to you, but the hand of God has given it. I love that. It was so deep in my spirit as I lay on the bed last night. I thought about it, and I thought, “We shouldn’t have passed that bread like that. We should have passed it on a tray.”
Because we want to make a symbol, that it is not by the hands of men that we receive our sustenance. Sometimes God uses men to bless us. But all favor, all favor comes from above. All provision comes from the Lord. All healing. Do you believe what I’m saying? All healing comes from the Lord. Even if you get a medication that helps you. Healing doesn’t come from substance. Healing comes from the hand of the Lord. Hallelujah. Glory be to God.
So I saw that tray being passed just then, with the Challah on it. And I believe God wants to pass to you something, some provision, something that you need in your life. But it will not come handed from man to man, it will come on the tray, spiritually, so that you’ll recognize this is not the gift of man, this is Me giving it to you, the Lord is saying. Receive your provision from My hand.
Lord, we receive all that You have for us from Your hand. Hallelujah. From Your divine storehouse. All that You’ve promised us, all that it is, all that is our heritage and our inheritance, we receive it right here in this little room. All that the Father desires for us, we receive it right now in the Holy Name of Yeshua the Messiah. We receive the blessing of the Lord. We receive the closed doors, and we receive the open doors. And we receive the wisdom to know how to walk, and when to walk, and when to move before Your Throne.
Pouring in What’s Needed
February 21, 2004 (Saturday Morning)
Vision given to Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
I just saw in the Spirit another strange little vision. I saw a recipe being used and made, perhaps like a cake was being made. But I saw a bowl that was placed in the mixer. and the mixer was mixing the ingredients in the bowl. But I saw that according to the recipe, all of the flour, (it looked like flour) was not to be added at one time and then mixed. But it was to be added gradual.
As the mixer was doing the mixing the flour was to be added in gradually, not all at one time. And I think the Lord is saying to us… I believe from that little vision, the Lord is saying to us, “All that you need and all that I’ve purposed for you doesn’t come at one time. But I’m pouring it in as it’s needed.”
But the finished product, we know what the finished product is going to be. It’s going to be completeness and wholeness in Him. God doesn’t dump in everything that we have need of sometime, all at one time. But oh, the wisdom of the recipe.
Lord… You know sometimes women get ahead of the recipe and they make a flop. They make a mess. You can’t dump all the flour in if the recipe says, “Add it gradually.”
And you can’t make it right if it says, “Beat gently,” and you beat it to death. You’ve got to follow the recipe. And Lord, we want that divine recipe to be followed in our life.
Forgive us if we complain. Forgive us, Lord, if we complain that things aren’t happening fast enough. You know us, and You know it’s not our desire to murmur against the Living God. Our flesh just gets in our way. Give us grace. Hallelujah.
The Word Carried on the Wings of the Morning
February 28, 2004 (Saturday Evening)
Vision given to Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
I see. I just saw, as I was praying, I saw in vision words that looked like… Strange. But it looked like words in little boxes with wings. I saw words written, printed words in little boxes, with wings. And they were going forth.
And that’s my prayer, that the Word of God will be carried even on the wings of the morning. And that it would find it’s lodging place, oh, in the hearts of those who are hungry and who desire.
A Glimpse of the Harvest
February 29, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophetic Word directed to Saints in Jerusalem
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
But I feel the unction of the Holy Ghost to declare over each and every one of you that in the coming days and weeks and months you’re going to experience, as you have a heart to receive, you’re going to experience a greater measure of that overcoming anointing in your life. And you’re going to notice that things that would normally put you in a tailspin and weight you down, you’re going to notice that the joy of the Lord rushes in. As soon as that heaviness and that depression comes, you’re going to notice that the joy of God just comes in like a flood to wash it right out of your life.
Lord, I declare that over this people right now. In the Name of Yeshua we declare the anointing of an eagle, that they would soar in the heavenly places above the storm, with the spirit and the anointing of overcomers. (Tongues) According to your faith receive that as a word for you from the Lord. I receive that. I receive that. Hallelujah.
I see God birthing a softness. You know, trouble and trials hardened your spirit a little bit, some of you. And I see the Lord just pouring… It’s so strange, because normally you think of water or oil. But I kind of saw it almost like milk. And that’s so strange. But I saw it like milk was being poured in.
And the only thing I can remember, as a boy I can remember my grandparents and the end of the day after the meal and the evening was getting late, they would eat bread and milk together. They’d take bread. Maybe it was a little stale or hard. And they’d break it up and put it in a glass and pour milk over it and eat it with a spoon. And it’s the only reason I can think of now. But I saw it like milk being poured in to soften your spirit, just to soften your spirit. Because we don’t want to be hard. We want to be vigilant and we want to be firm and we want to be courageous, but we don’t want to have a hard spirit before God. We want to be soft and pliable.
Hallelujah. Lord, answer questions in people’s spirits that they have about the future and the past and where you’re leading them and what You have for them. Oh, God. (Tongues) Holy Ghost, Holy Ghost, Holy Ghost. Hallelujah.
The Lord is putting it in my spirit to say that around some of you the ground has been very dry spiritually around you. And you’ve not seen it bringing forth much of a harvest. I can just see some little withered plants, just little withered sprouts around you. And it’s disturbing. You want to see more harvest.
I just feel like the Lord would have me to declare that these days that are approaching are going to be days of harvest, going to be days of results and increase. Hallelujah. You may not see the full inheritance yet, but I believe the Lord’s going to let you get glimpses of the end, so that you’ll have the faith and courage to keep laboring.
You know, it’s something to sow and sow and sow and sow and sow and wonder if there’s ever going to be any result. So I believe the Lord’s just going to give somebody a glimpse of the end, a little piece to know what the end’s going to be and how God is going to fix it.
Jerusalem Is My Furnace
March 7, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Vision as told in Smiths, AL
And so I’m dozing in and out, and in and out. And all of the sudden I realized that I was moved in the Spirit to a place that I had never been before. And I ended up in what looked like a cave. It was a very dark room. And there was stone on the floor, and it looked like stone on the walls.
It may have been an ancient shop. But it looked more like a cave. And sitting in this cave, I saw that someone was moving around in it. And I walked in, in this vision. I walked in and I saw a man sitting on a stool. And he had a tall table in front of him. Not a regular height table, but a extra tall table.
And he was sitting on a stool. And on that stool, on that table, was a potter’s wheel. And I saw that on the bottom of that table was a shelf. And on that shelf was something like a pedal that was controlling the spinning of that wheel. And sitting next to the table was an oil lamp. And I…
The room was only lit by the oil lamp. And I spent the rest of the night with this potter in this dream or vision. And I knew literally that in the Spirit I had been all night at the potter’s house. And so when I spoke that Shabbat morning, I titled it, “All Night at the Potter’s House.”
Because I saw sequence after sequence of the potter making his vessel. And I saw several times this very Scripture that was spoken about in Jeremiah chapter 18. I saw that the potter applied too much pressure. I kept hearing the phrase, “Applied pressure. Applied pressure. Applied pressure.”
I watched the potter use his thumbs. I had never really seen at a long period of time, I had never seen a real potter at work like this in an ancient way of making pottery. But I kept seeing how important his thumbs were. I never thought of that before.
But I watched as he carefully used both thumbs to apply just the right amount of pressure to make the lip of that vessel. He used all of his hands to shape the vessel, to make the shape form up. But it seemed that the most important tool that he had was his thumbs, as he would just use the sides of his thumbs to apply the pressure, to make the neck of the vessel, and the rim, the lip of the vessel come up. And I watched in amazement as he made vessel after vessel after vessel.
So much so, that I could have even made an inventory that morning. I probably couldn’t do it now. But that morning I could have almost made an inventory of the vessels I saw him making, in the Spirit, over and over and over and over again. And then I heard a phrase in the Spirit that said, “And Jerusalem is My furnace.” The first phrase He said was, “Applied pressure.” But the next phrase that I heard in the Spirit was, “Jerusalem is My furnace.”
People Trying to Run from the Lord
March 7, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
Oh, I just saw people running. I saw people running. And they were trying to run away from the Lord. But I saw that the Lord has got their number, and He knows how to draw them in.
We thank You for that right now. We thank You for everyone that’s trying to run with all their might, to get away from You. I thank You that Your arm is longer. You can reach farther down. I thank You that You’re faster than those of us who have tried to escape. You know how to catch us. You know how to get a hold of us in our life.
And we receive deliverance for ourselves and for our loved ones. Oh hallelujah. We minister strength into one another tonight. Be healed in the Name of Yeshua. Receive strength in your body.
Shaking & Exposing at the Mugrabi Gate
March 7, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
As I was singing those words, I began to see that Mugrabi Gate. And I saw that wall that had come crashing down,exposing what was underneath there.Maybe it not can all be seen from the distance, but the archeologist who came and looked up, they said they were able to see.
I saw that again.And the Spirit of the Lord just spoke to me in this little experience that I want to share. I told you that I started off with the open door in Jerusalem, preaching, and I ended up in the Seals.
And that is not like me to preach that kind of a messageto that kind of a congregation of all kinds of mixed people.But I ended up preaching on the first, second, third, and fourth Seal. And then at the end I touched on the fifth and the sixth Seal. You know that it was in the fifth Sealwhere the Jewish martyrs were crying out to God from under the altar.
I can’t tell you what that felt like to preach that message, standing in Jerusalem. And then you know that we understand that the sixth Seal is the judgment Seal.And the Seventh Seal is revealing the coming of the Lord.
And as we were preaching those things,I saw what God was doing for me.He was taking me back to the simplicity of the Message,but was giving it to me in such a beautiful wayto bring it out to people that had never heard it before.I sensed such an anointing to bring the truth out,the little nuggets of truth out, and present them in a special anointing.
And in this vision I just had, I saw the gate being exposed again underneath that had been covered up for so many years. And the Lord showed me that what people were doing,they were trying to improve access.You know, they’ve made a new gate for people to get in.And they were improving.But by trying to improve it,they were hiding the ancient entrance, and the ancient way in.
And what I saw God doing for us…And I hope you’ll claim this with me.I saw God beginning to allow those stones that had been added around the Message of truth,all of those things that had been built up and added,and all the confusion and things that people have got into,that have taken people… They’ve acted, more, not just scarecrows, but they’ve acted like stop signsto keep people away from the nuggets of truth.
And I just saw that in the Spirit,as people were making the new ramp up to the Temple Mount, and building the new Mugrabi Gate for people to go through.But I saw God desiring to shake all of that away.Because there is a Message of truth that the Bride of Jesus Christ around the world has to hear,because there is deliverance in the revelation of Jesus.There’s deliverance there. And the enemy wants to keep us away.
So I saw God taking us back to the original gate, exposing the truth that’s been delivered in our day, minus a lot of the blockades and…Just like the Arabs, the Muslims went in and tried to seal up the Eastern Gate,because they didn’t want the Messiah to go in.And the enemy does the same thing.He’s sealed it up to try to keep people away from the Message of truth. But I saw the shaking of the Lord. Hallelujah.
The Heavens Are Heavy with Abundance
March 14, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophecy given through Brother Shelley
For yea, the Lord would say unto thee in this hour. Yea, the heavens are heavy, saith the Lord. Yea, they are not heavy as brass, who is dull for hearing. But yea, they are heavy with the abundance, saith the Lord, that I have declared and laid aside for thee, My people. Yea, I have laid abundance. Yea, I say abundance aside for thee, saith the Lord.
And yea, it has been a long time since some of you have pressed through the heavens to receive that blessing that I have for you. And so I have stood back, saith the Lord, and allowed you to become a needy people. Yea, an extremely needy people. Not because I wanted to see you suffer. Not because I wanted to see you sick or bound in your spirit. But because I wanted you to come the way that is proven and tried, the ways that you have known in the past of pressing into My Presence.
Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, if you will press in, yea, if you will focus upon Me, saith the Lord, and look unto Me this day. Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, I shall begin to release the abundance. Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, the abundance of My Holy Ghost. Yea, the abundance of victory and freedom, saith the Lord. Yea, even the abundance of healing and miracles among you.
For yea, I would not have you to be a sick and afflicted people. Yea, I would not have you to be a crippled and a broken people, saith the Lord. For you are those that I have sown My Word into, saith the Lord. And My Word is not come to cause you to be broken down and defeated. But yea, My Word is come to raise you up in My image, saith the Lord. That you might go forth and declare the fullness of the Word that has been sown into you.
Yea, the Lord would say unto thee in this hour, rise up, My children. Rise up, saith the Lord, and hear My Voice. For yea, the abundance is for you. Yea, it is not for those who have forsaken the Word. Yea, it is not for those who have walked in the ways of the world. Yea, but those who have kept themselves pure in this hour. Yea, I have reserved it even for you. And you shall know it, saith the Lord. No demon in hell, no enemy of your soul will be able to keep you from knowing, from breathing, eating and living in that abundance that I have said.
Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, I shall also release the abundance of finance. For I have seen how the enemy has held you, saith the Lord. And I’ve seen how the enemy has used finances to cripple you and hold you back. Yea, it has not caused you, necessarily, to doubt, saith the Lord. But it is caused your faith to sink low.
But yea, the Lord would say unto thee, look up and allow your faith to rise up into the heavens, saith the Lord. And I shall remove the fetter. Yea, I shall remove the dams, saith the Lord. And I shall cause finances to flow, both into your life and into this ministry, saith the Lord. For My Word must go forth. And yea, My people must have their needs.
For I am not a God who would forsake His own. Believe Me, saith the Lord, and I shall give unto thee from sources that thou knowest not. Yea, I shall sow into thee, saith the Lord, from those that thou hast never known, and never been acquainted with, saith God. For I shall supply all of your needs, saith the Lord. For I desire to build and strengthen your families, saith God, to receive together that which I have promised.
Yea, remind yourself. Yea, when you sit down at the table to eat, saith the Lord, remind yourself of the Words that I have sown into you in days past. Remind yourself of the promises, even when you lay down upon your bed at night. Rehearse the words that I have spoken, and doubt not. But play them over and over again, saith the Lord, in your ears and in your spirit. For it is only in doing that, that your faith is able to rise up to claim, to remember, to lay hold on that which I have spoken.
For yea, I do declare unto thee in this hour that everything that I have promised thee is for thee. And no enemy, yea, and not even doubt will be able to keep you from receiving that which I have promised. For yea, the Lord would say unto thee, abundance is coming. And there shall be a remnant among you that shall believe. Yea, there shall be a remnant among you that shall hope against hope. Yea, there shall be a remnant among you that shall press in and become forerunners, saith the Lord, in the Glory that I have promised for this latter hour.
For yea, I shall call in those that are broken. Yea, those that are destitute. Yea, those who have no hope. And through you I shall sow hope and life into them, saith the Lord. Believe. For yea, even in this hour, in this moment of time, I do raise up a remnant among you, of faith, who will believe. And because of them I shall cause increase and abundance to flow upon the rest of you. So saith the Lord.
Because of My Breath You Shall Live
March 14, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophecy given through Brother Shelley
For even as I, the Living God, reached down, saith the Lord and breathed breath into that creation that I had made. Yea, even as I saw Adam laying there as I had created him from the dust of the earth. And yet he was not a living soul, until I, the Living God, touched My lips to his, saith the Lord, and breathed My life in him.
Yea, and from the dust I made him a living creature and a living soul. And yea, I shall do the same for you this day, saith the Lord. I shall begin a work of resuscitation in you. And I shall begin to breathe My breath, yea, into your nostrils.
Yea, I shall fill your lungs and your inner being with My Life, saith the Lord. And you shall live. Yea, you who have been stale, saith the Lord. Yea, you who have been cold and lukewarm. Yea, you who have been bound, saith the Lord, you shall know My Life and My Breath. And because of My Breath, yea, even the dead shall live. So saith the Lord.
Oh, breathe on Me, Lord. Breathe on me, Jesus. (Tongues)
Come on and let the Lord raise up that holy remnant. He said there was a remnant among us that would press into the heavenlies, and receive the abundance. And the blessings would not only flow for us, but for others.
There are some in this service this morning that are not capable of reaching up to God, because the sin in their lives prevent them from coming into His Presence, without repentance.
But let God raise up among us a holy remnant, who have set their lives in order and who desire the Breath of God. And those of us who feel God’s call, let’s reach up with every fiber of our being, right now, and present ourselves before the Throne, that God Himself would breathe that life into us, to revive us and resuscitate us and cause us to live.
Oh, that every cell of our body would be charged with the anointing of the Lord, and that we would live as we have never lived before.
“Breathe on me…”
Demonic Spirits Manifested Like Insects
March 30, 2004 (Tuesday Evening)
Dream given to Brother Shelley
And as I laid there, I saw this what looked like a very large centipede or millipede. Very large one. Come crawling out, kind of around the corner and out into the bedroom floor. Very large. Red and black. Just wild looking.
And it’s so strange because it was like things were,had maybe been left on the floor.We have two boys, and you don’t ever know where you’re going to find a stick-horse. So, I don’t know what it was. But it seemed as something was laying on the floor. And I saw that centipede or millipede. (I don’t really know the difference.)
It was alive on both ends.How many… it was probably alive all the way through.But it looked like had two heads, you know.Two feelers on each end. It was moving kind of strange.
And it came toward the bed.But whatever that was laying on the floor,it climbed up on to that and just began to kind of move its way along that thing. And the next thing you know, here comes another from the other side of the room. And a third one came in through the door.
And the more they moved, the bigger they got.They began to swell up. They got bigger and bigger.Until I looked down and they had taken the eyes of what looked like a ferret. That’s how big their heads had already gotten.
And they looked at me with those red glaring eyes,as they were moving around on the floor.And I saw this thing that had been laying there, left laying there on the floor, like a stick or something.And I reached down off the bed.I didn’t jump up and start stepping on them, I want you to know.Not as big as they were.
But I reached down and got that stick or whatever it was.And I came right down in the middle of one of them. Wham.I thought I had really done something. But you know what happened? It divided right in the middle. Right where I hit it, it divided.
And when it divided, both ends were still alive.Half of it wiggled off that way, and half of it wiggled off that way. But it was still very much alive.
And I thought, “This is very strange. What am I going to do?”
And about that time one of these things that had not been divided,it came over to the bed and started lifting up its headlike it was getting ready to crawl up on the bed.Now I said, " Now this ain’t going to happen. This is not going to work. I am not going to let that thing crawl up in this bed. I’ve got to do something."
And all of a sudden a voice came from the corner of the room.It was a man’s voice. Came from the corner of the room.And I don’t remember exactly what the first phrase was that he spoke. But I responded back to him and said,“I’ve got to kill them. I’ve got to kill these things.”
And he spoke back. This voice spoke back to me and said,
“You don’t have to kill them. They’re afraid of you.”
I thought to myself, “No, I’m afraid of them.“That voice said, “You don’t have to kill them. They’re afraid of you.“And I said, “What do you mean they’re afraid of me?“And the voice said, “Just speak to them. They’re afraid of your voice.”
They looked like they were taking over the bedroom.But the voice said, “You don’t have to kill them, just speak to them. They’re afraid of you.”
I had already tried to kill one of them.And instead of killing it, I divided it, multiplied it. He said, “Speak to it.”
And so I said, “Go.” I held my hand out like that and said, “Go.”
And do you know what? They went right through the walls. They went psewwww. And the dream was over.
I laid there for a long time and I pondered on that.I don’t want to confuse anybody with my science fiction dreams. But I laid there a long time and I pondered on that.And I thought, “You know, that’s exactly how it is.“The demons of hell they come that way to torment us, to attack us, to trouble our minds, to steal our rest, to steal our peace.
You know what the demons of hell do.And we’re always figuring out sometimes how to outsmart them, how to get around them.I thought I was going to kill them one at a time.But instead of killing them, when I struck them,I cut them in half and it became two.And two can do more damage than one.
I wasn’t doing much good. Until I heard this voice. I don’t know who this was. See?Another man’s voice in my bedroom said,“You don’t have to kill them. Just speak to them. They’re afraid of your voice.”
And I laid there and I began to ponder on that.And you know, that is exactly the authority that has been given to us by the Lord Jesus Christ.We don’t have to, we don’t have to interview these demon spirits.All we have to do is use His authority.It’s not ours. It’s His. He has given it to us.
And you know all it took was, “Go.”
How many of you want to walk in that right now? Hold up your hand. You’d like to walk in that kind of authority. It’s yours.You don’t need a seminar to find out how to get it. It’s yours.You don’t need to read a book, “The ABC’s to kill them centipedes.” All you need to do is recognize who you are and take that authority over your enemy in the Name of Yeshua. And say what? “Go!”
Loosing in the Area of Finances
March 30, 2004 (Tuesday Evening)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley
I keep getting something about a job, or something to do with employment. And I know Brother Bobby has such a great need. But I think, I know there is something. I just left that brother there. And I keep feeling something. I’m not sure if it’s for somebody else, of if it’s to do with him. Something that God wants to open. There’s a little something that…
I’ll tell you how I see it in the Spirit like a bottleneck, you know. Traffic sometimes like we’ve had out here on a highway, with all this construction. You’ve got two lanes of traffic all of a sudden have to become one lane. And it hinders. Doesn’t it? You’ve got too much flowing out of the bottle. I mean, you want to pour a lot out of the bottle, but it has to come through the narrowness of the neck. I could just see it like that. A bottleneck. Having to do with job and employment that God wants to do something bigger, and the enemy is just bringing it to a narrow place.
And I’m just going to say it this way since I don’t have a sure Word who it’s for. Every person in this place that needs something to loose in the area of your job or your employment, lift up your hand to the Lord right now. Just lift up your hand and claim it. If it’s not for you, maybe it’s a loved one. And you want to just…
Lord, right now. If You would have given me more specific, I would have declared it. But I only declare now what I see. And I saw it coming like a bottleneck. There was more that needs to flow out. But the place was too narrow. So Lord, in the Name of Jesus, we ask You to enlarge this situation. By the Holy Ghost, let it be stretched and enlarged.
Oh, I see. I saw it just then, a different little description. I saw it then like a trickle. And the Lord was saying that somebody has got a hold of something that has brought a trickle of finances. A trickle. It’s, you know, a portion. But it’s not what you need, and it’s not what God wants you to have. And you don’t know which way to go. You’re not sure what to do, to go expand or withdraw. But I just believe that the Lord is about to give somebody the assurance that they’re looking for, and the trickle is going to become the flow that you’ve been asking for. Lord, we prophesy and declare right now.
Gears Coming Together to Turn in Proper Order
March 30, 2004 (Tuesday Evening)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
I hate to give you these silly little illustrations. It’s not help to some people, but maybe it will be to you. I saw it then like a gear shifting into place. I saw it like a watch. The gears of a little watch that were turning. Both gears were turning, but the teeth were not meeting properly. But I saw the gears coming together, the teeth meeting properly, and the whole thing begin to work. And you don’t even… Listen, and watch this now. Watch this little Word. And though it’s very simple.
It’s not a new piece you need. It’s not a new gear to the watch. All the pieces are there. It’s just something needs to move closer. All right. Let’s believe God for whoever that Word would…
Lord, right now we see that it’s not a new situation, we just need… Yes, let there be adjustment and fine tuning. Oh hallelujah. Glory. That the trickle would become a flow. That a way would be made. Amen. Amen.
Job Situation Coming to a Bottleneck
April 4, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley
But I just saw it again, just as I spoke right out there in the Spirit, I saw that coming to a bottleneck. I mentioned it Tuesday night, the flow of God and it came to a bottleneck. I just saw that in the Spirit, concerning again,and I knew in my heart that it was concerning a job situation, that God has something for you in finances and provision.
Bottleneck & Jams Being Moved
April 4, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley
But in the Spirit, I just perceive that if you will reach up and hold on and claim that promise from Godthat God will move that log jam or that bottleneckor whatever would come to your mind, that illustration that would block the blessings from the Lord.
And the first word was for finances and job situations. But I’m thinking now about many thingsthat could be represented in this church this morning. Blessings and benefits and deliverances. Oh yes.
And I remember now.Have you ever just seen somebodyand you knew the potential that they had,but you could see that the enemy was just holding them back? You could discern that it was just the enemy holding them back and keeping them from reaching the maturity of the giftthat God has given them,or keeping them from reaching the fulnessof what the Lord had for them in their life?
We’ve got some people in the house,in the work of the Lord among us that are just like that.The enemy’s holding them back from reaching their full potential. But I claim that promise for them right now.
Log Explosion
April 4, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
Hallelujah. I just saw it then, quickly in a vision in the Spirit, I saw another situation like that. I saw logs being floated down the river.I saw logs being floated down the river and there were so many of the logs they got into a jam.
I could see them jammed in, like a corner, just quickly like that. And all of the sudden I saw them flying in all directions.That’s what I just saw in the Spirit, like an explosion to blow those logs into splinters. Hallelujah.
I believe God drops those little inspirational seedsin our spirit because He wants us to reach up and claim that.How many of you can think of a waythat you could use an explosion to get some old logs out of the way? Hallelujah.
God Is Waiting to Catch You
April 7, 2004 (Wednesday Evening)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
I just saw in the Spirit, just quickly, that deep long dark tunnel. Looked like it was leading straight down into the heart of the earth. And yet I could see at the other end of that tunnel, that light. And I know that it wasn’t the light of Hades. I knew that it was the light of God. The light of the peace of God, the light of the Presence of God. In the Old Testament the Shekinah Glory.
And so whoever you are in this place tonight. If you feel like you’re plunging in that tunnel of darkness, at the end of that tunnel, don’t be afraid. God is waiting there to catch you.
I felt the anointing in those words, “To catch you.” For underneath are the everlasting arms of the Lord. Hallelujah. He’s a shoulder to lean on in the time of trouble. There’s nothing you face right now, or will face tomorrow, or throughout all eternity, that God is not bigger than that.
He’s bigger than every problem, every circumstance, every mountain, every valley, every devil of hell that would stand in your way. God is bigger than that. He’s already paid the price.
Be encouraged, saints of the Most High God. For God who has kept us for a reason, is not finished with us yet. And one day He’ll bring us to that place where we can reflect in perfection His Glory. Until that hour we press through. We reach up. We extend ourselves higher, believing that God who has started a good work is the same God who is able to finish. For the Scripture has said, “He is the Author and the Finisher of our faith.”
Lord, how we thank You for what You’ve started in our lives. And we just, with confidence, declare that You’ll finish it. Oh, Holy Ghost of God. Those who stand on the edge of Your grace. Those who run from Your grace. Those who make excuses. I pray, Lord, that You will chase them faster than they run. That You’ll speak to them in the night. That You’ll deal with their hearts heavily, and bring them to the safety of the fold.
Lord, we pray for ourselves tonight as a body, with the exception of a few visitors. And really, they’re not visitors. Sister Eva is not a visitor. Sister Weir is not a visitor. They’ve been associated in our family a long time. And Daniel and Jonathan grew up with us. So we really don’t have any visitors.
And so, Lord, we just pray for this little body tonight, that there would be no jealousy among us. That there would be no envy among us. That there would be no strife among us. No discord.
God, I pray right now that You would reveal to each and every person who continues to allow their mouth to sow discord in this body. Oh God. For I fear that there is an hour coming when You’re going to lay it on the line. So we take warning, and we take heed tonight to search our hearts and our lives. Oh, we pray, as it has been prayed before us. Put a watch over our heart, and a stay on our lips, that we would not sin against Thee, oh God.
April 11, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
On Track
Prophetic Word given by Jan Salvador
After we were asking the Lord to be forgiven and to forgive, I kept seeing metal. It was like the bottom part of something. I didn’t understand what I was seeing. And then all of the sudden it was like track lighting or curtain, ceiling, curtain rods and stuff like that. And then the Lord kept saying, “You’re on track. You’re on track. You’re on track.”
Binding Together to Break Strongholds Through Prayer
April 20, 2004 (Tuesday Evening)
Vision given to Sister Jan Salvador
Last night when we all were up the front praying, I was praying, of course, for a lot of different things. And I began to see a plate screwed into the ground. And it had like little tiny pieces of gravel over it. And with the screws. It was like I was to unscrew that. But no matter how hard I prayed, I could not unscrew the screws. I couldn’t even get to… I mean, I was only concentrating on one. And when you asked us to pray with someone, I knelt down beside Hannah.
Not to pray for her, but to pray with her. And when I did, that little bitty screw started to let go. It wouldn’t let go, no matter how hard we prayed. It just would not let go. But when you said this morning, there’s a stronghold, it just hit me so hard that there’s a stronghold that prayer, binding together, will release that stronghold. And I look at the prayer directives and I think, my God, what You’re doing for us and with us, and the time or the season that we’re living in and all that’s happening in Israel, no wonder we’re all in a battle. No wonder this is going on. We’re making progress.
This is the season. I don’t know how to say it, but if can look beyond, if we can look beyond our circumstances and look to what God has for us, it’s so exciting and it’s. There’s no words to describe it. There’s no words to describe what God has for us. So I just thank Him and I praise Him. And I want to be able to always have the vision beyond…
Give Me Your Ear
May 9, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley
How many of you want to hear the voice of the Lord?How many of you want to have an ear to hear, to know,to discern the voice of the Lord when He speaks into your spirit?
The Lord said… I just felt the Lord saying in the Spirit, “Give me your ear. Give me your ear.“I felt like the Lord was just dealing with me that some of us have lended our ear to another voice.We’ve listened to the enemy when we need to be listening to the Voice of the Lord.
He’s there. He may not always be the loudest Voice, but He’s the most faithful Voice.He desires to speak to us.He desires to lead us, to encourage us.
Movement In The Earth’s Plates
May 9, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
Earlier in the praise and the worship,I heard a Voice say, “There is movement in the plates. There is movement in the plates.“And there was a question in my spirit immediately, “What is that?”
And I saw in the Spirit what looked like layers of earth.And I could see that they were layers because they were different colors. Like if you should stand in the Grand Canyon,you can look down in the chasm and see the layers of dirt,different colors of earth.
But I saw that this most likely was beneath the surface. I could see layers and I heard the Voice again say, “There’s movement in the plates.”
Of course now I always want to claim those thingsfor spiritual messages and say,“Lord, there’s movement underneath the surfacethat’s going to open up and be something great and mighty for us all.”
But in my spirit,I know these things can be parallel,but in my spirit I felt like somehow it must be in the natural.And I’m sure that every day of the yearthere’s movement somewhere in the earth’s plates,those earthquake faults.So I’m not trying to say anything except just what the Lord said.
And I do believe that we can take these things many times parallel, and we can get a spiritual messageeven when God gives natural signs.Because you know, you could be walking along and never know what was going on beneath the surface, until the earth just opens up and swallows people.You don’t always feel the rumbling.You don’t always feel the tremors.
You don’t always know what’s going on underneath the surface. But I want you to know, God does.Because He’s just as in control of the plates of the earthas He is the winds and the waves and the sea and the storms. He has control of it all.
And it kind of stuck right there how that things can shift so quickly, so fast.And of course we can think of the negative.But we can also accentuate the positive tonight and say that, “Gloomy, gloomy, gloomy circumstances can be bright just like that.” Just the changing of the breath of God. Just God blowing His breath in a different direction. Oh how things can change.
Renewing the Covenant
May 23, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Prophecy given through Brother Shelley
For yea, the Lord would say unto thee this night. Yea, it is My desire to reveal unto thee, saith the Lord. Yea, it is My desire to open your spirit, saith God, and fill you with more of Me. For yea, I have walked among you, saith the Lord. Yea, I have touched your lives and you have reached out and touched Me.
But yea, the Lord would say unto thee, that I declare unto you this night that it is My desire to give thee deliverance like thou hast never known before. Yea, I desire to fill you with an anointing of deliverance, saith the Lord, that you could be set free, and that you could impart this freedom to others.
For yea, the Lord would say unto thee, surely I have chosen this place. And yea, I shall renew My covenant with thee, saith the Lord. For I shall bring them from the North, from the South, from the East, and the West. And yea, My Glory and My Anointing shall meet them here, saith the Lord. And I shall cause chains and fetters to be broken. Yea, I shall cause the blinded eyes to see, saith the Lord. Yea, I shall deliver the oppressed. Yes, yes. This is what I desire, said the Lord.
Yea, I call unto thee, My people, this night. Yea, I call unto thee. Look to Me, saith the Lord. Do not look to one another. Yea, for men shall fail. But yea, I say unto you, look to Me and live. Yea, cast your eyes upon Me, saith the Lord, and believe that is within you.
For yea, I say unto thee, you shall see, yea, with your eyes you shall see the Glory that I have promised, saith the Lord. You shall not only see it with your eyes, but the Lord would say unto thee in this hour, you shall taste it. Yea, you shall eat it, saith the Lord. You shall be made a partaker of it.
Yea, the Lord would say unto thee this night, receive from Me. For I am among you to pour out Myself. Receive, saith the Lord. Wonderful is the Lord. Hallelujah. I tell you, there was no premeditation. My thought, I was in my mind forming my next sentence. I had no idea that the Lord was going to speak that way.
I Am Among You
May 23, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Prophecy given through Brother Shelley
For yea, the Lord would say unto thee this night, yea, it is My desire to reveal unto thee, saith the Lord. Yea, it is My desire to open your spirit, saith God, and fill you with more of Me. For yea, I have walked among you, saith the Lord.
Yea, I have touched your lives and you have reached out and touched Me. But yea, the Lord would say unto thee, that I declare unto you this night that it is My desire to give thee deliverance like thou hast never known before. Yea, I desire to fill you with an anointing of deliverance, saith the Lord, that you could be set free, and that you could impart this freedom to others.
For yea, the Lord would say unto thee, surely I have chosen this place. And yea, I shall renew My covenant with thee, saith the Lord. For I shall bring them from the north, from the south, from the east, and the west. And yea, My Glory and My Anointing shall meet them here, saith the Lord. And I shall cause chains and fetters to be broken.
Yea, I shall cause the blinded eyes to see, saith the Lord. Yea, I shall deliver the oppressed. Yes, yes. This is what I desire, said the Lord. Yea, I call unto thee, My people, this night. Yea, I call unto thee.
Look to Me, saith the Lord. Do not look to one another. Yea, for men shall fail. But yea, I say unto you, look to Me and live. Yea, cast your eyes upon Me, saith the Lord, and believe with all that is within you. For yea, I say unto thee, you shall see, yea, with your eyes, you shall see the Glory that I have promised, saith the Lord. You shall not only see it with your eyes, but the Lord would say unto thee in this hour, you shall taste it. Yea, you shall eat it, saith the Lord. You shall be made a partaker of it.
Yea, the Lord would say unto thee this night, receive from Me. For I am among you to pour out Myself. Receive, saith the Lord.
Fresh Life
May 30, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophecy given through Brother Shelley
For yea, the Lord would say unto thee in this hour, it is My desire, saith God, to fill You with My life. Yea, I desire to fill You with the freshness of My life, to restore to you what the enemy has stolen from you because of the heat of the battle.
Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, like a drink of cool water on the battlefield, to the tongue, to the throat of a thirsty soldier, yea I the Lord thy God desire to touch thee with My Spirit that would cause thee to be refreshed and renewed, saith the Lord.
Stand still and see My salvation and know, saith the Lord, that I have planted you here for a reason. Yea and I have not forsaken thee, saith the Lord. But I shall stand with you and I shall cause you, saith the Lord, to be strengthened.
And you shall rise up in My Glory. Yea as you worship me, as you exalt Me, I shall cause My fresh life to fill your being, saith the Lord. Yea, it is my desire to push away from you the clouds of discouragement and loneliness, and fill you with the satisfaction that only My Spirit can bring.
Rise up, rise up My children, rise up and hear the Word of the Lord. Be what I have called you to be and I shall give you strength to do what I have called you to do. For yea I say unto thee, the hour of deliverance is nigh, even at hand, saith the Lord.
Old Limb Blossoming
June 13, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Vison given to Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
Several times I could feel the stirring of the Lord. And in one of those stirrings I just kind of sat upon the edge of the bed. And a little vision broke before my eyes, and I saw an old dead stick, an old dead limb. Just kind of at an angle there in my view, in my vision, in my sight. And I said, “What is this old stick?” You know, it was just in my mind. “What is this old limb?”
And all of a sudden, I saw that limb beginning to blossom forth. I saw little tiny little pale green shoots begin to come out of that old dead stick. And finally those beautiful blossoms that we all recognize as almond blossoms, I began to see those almond blossoms as they began to come forth. And so I got up and turned on the light. And I knew that, I remembered a vision that Jeremiah had had…
Calling for the Kings to Reflect the Glory of the Kings
June 27, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
I shared with you when I returned from Jerusalem, a little vision that the Lord had given me.
I saw the mountains of Lebanon and I saw these extremely tall cedar trees growing there.
I saw these trees being cut down and roped together. And I watched in the Spirit as they were drug down the mountain side. And I thought, “What will be left?” The bark is being stripped off, the branches are falling off as it’s being drug down into a body of water. And in the vision I perceived it like a river.
Later the Lord took me to this Scripture and I realized that what had happened in the Scripture was not the river at all, but the Mediterranean Sea, the Mediterranean Ocean. And Hiram, out of his respect for David and his love for Solomon, he said, “I’ll provide.” Because listen, anybody who knows the layout of Israel knows that forests are few and far between.
And so there were probably very few trees in Jerusalem, in Israel, that would’ve been sufficient to make much out of, especially the pillar in the temple of God. And so the call had to go all the way into Lebanon.
Because in Lebanon, growing on the hills of Lebanon were these matchless cedar and fir trees that would be perfect for those tall columns and pillars that would be used in what we know as Solomon’s temple. But really it was not the temple of Solomon, it was the temple of the most high God.
I could see them tied together in floats and floating down the river. Now in actuality, when we read this again, they weren’t floated down the river, they were brought down the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, which makes it even a more difficult task, because you’ve got the waves and the tides and everything to deal with.
But they were placed on floats and they were brought down to the ancient port of Jaffa, which is just at Tel Aviv today, modern Tel Aviv. And after they were brought down and disassembled and brought up onto the land, up off the floats.
Then they had to be somehow transported all the way from Jaffa to Jerusalem and up onto the Temple Mount. And here they were placed on the Temple Mount and God began to build His house. And somebody thinking, “What’s that got to do with me or anybody else?”
It was a picture that the Lord was showing me in the Spirit. And the picture was this; God knows how to gather and to move and to reposition His people to get them to the place where they can reflect His glory.
Look what a journey it was from the mountains of Lebanon down the mountains, across the plain, into the ocean, floated down to Jaffa, bundled up again and drug or carried or somehow from Jaffa all the way to Jerusalem, and then hoisted up onto the Temple Mount to become a pillar in the house of the Lord.
And you know what? The cedar trees, they had an easy job. All they had to do was float. They didn’t have to swim. All they had to do was yield. Just give up. Of course that’s about all they could do. But you understand my spiritual point, I hope.
All they had to do was yield to the workers, to the schoolmasters, to those that God had raised up to help. You see, God has certainly raised up ministries to help the cedar trees get from the tops of the hills of Lebanon to the Temple Mount. God certainly established that in the church of the Kingdom. He’s done it.
The Bible indicates in several Scriptures that the cedar tree is considered the king of all trees. So let me tell you what was happening here in a little spiritual application. The king was calling for the kings. King Solomon was calling for the king of all trees, the kings, the cedar trees to be brought to Jerusalem, which represented the appointed place. This is typology.
The king of all kings was calling for the kings to be brought to Jerusalem, the appointed place. And that’s what God’s doing in this hour. Yeshua, the Lord Jesus is calling for the cedar trees, for the kings.
It’s All About You, Lord
July 11, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Spiritual Song, Sung by Brother Shelley
It’s all about You, Lord
It’s all about You
It’s all about You, Lord
It’s all about You
So I lift my eyes
To heavenly things
Cause it’s all about You, Lord
It’s all about You”
Sing with me. (Repeat)
“I’m not of this world
I am a part of You
I’m not of this world, Lord
I am a part of You
So I lift my eyes
Unto heavenly things
I’m not of this world, Lord
I am a part of You”
“It’s all about You, Lord…” Tell Him
“Not to the right
Or even to the left
It’s all about You, Lord
It’s all about You”
(Repeat)
Changing in Catholic Church Leadership
July 25, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley
Now the Lord Jesus, I just felt the Holy Ghost speak to me that we should bind together now. I know that I’m trying to be not too controversial, but the Spirit of the Lord just gave me such a witness that we needed to pray.
You see, the spirit of Roman Catholicism has a hold on the Spanish world. And they are so steeped across the world in the deep traditions of the church, but many have never met the Lord in reality. And why the Lord would bring that to my mind. I was not thinking of anything like that, but that stronghold needs to be broken. Because God…
Religion stinks. Huh? Well no matter what kind of religion it is, religion stinks. All tables are filthy and all tables are full of vomit. And all of our righteousness is just like filthy rags, without the Lord’s righteousness in us.
I want you to pray right now that God will break every fetter and every chain that binds people, and keeps them from seeing a reality, a relationship, a personal oneness with the Lord Jesus. We stand right now in the authority of the Holy Ghost, and we…
Listen, be fair. Be fair. Not just the Catholic. Be fair. We bind every religious spirit that attacks and holds the people of God. Nations of people, and races of people from experiencing the reality of Jesus. Oh, we break every stronghold, every fetter of religion, every spirit of Balaamism in the Name of the Lord.
We bind the spirit of Nicolaitanism in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Oh. (Tongues) Right now. Somebody pray with me in the authority of the Holy Ghost. Somebody agree with me right now in the authority of the Holy Ghost. We shake the very foundation in the Name of Jesus. Let the very foundation be shaken. Oh.
The Lord just said, “Very shortly the leadership of the Catholic Church will change, and it will show the world. The world will begin to see the true nature. The true nature is about to be exposed, and God is going to bring a remnant out. You watch and see. A remnant unto Himself. Hallelujah. Hallelujah…
The Waters Are Troubled Tonight
July 26, 2004 (Monday Evening)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
In the Spirit, the Lord just reminded me and let me see again a vision, just a portion of a vision that He had shown me some years ago. I just saw in the Spirit a beautiful white eagle. And we know that a white eagle represents a work, a quick short work that the Lord has promised to do in the End time.
I saw this beautiful, white eagle, large-breasted eagle. I want to say that because I noticed the swelling of his chest, how swelled and puffed it was, how beautiful the chest of this white eagle.
He had in his talons a pyramid that looked as if it were made of stone. And I saw him drop that pyramid right in the middle of a river of water, a stream of water. And I noticed that the water was so clear that I could see that pyramid as it started settling to the bottom. And all of the sudden, I heard the voice of the Spirit say, “The waters are troubled tonight.”
And I know that we read in the Bible that there was a time when the Angel of the Lord would come down and trouble the waters. And the first one to get in the water, hallelujah, when the waters were troubled, was the one that received the miracle. Hallelujah. The promise.
That pyramid represents the Capstone. It’s none other than the Lord Jesus Christ, who is coming in perfect love to cap His Bride. Oh, the cry of the Word of God, that Capstone that was crying, “Grace, grace.”
Because that’s what’s going to bring perfect love, the Lord Jesus to be manifested among us.
Prayer for Israel
July 27, 2004 (Tuesday Evening)
Prayer given by Brother Shelley & Brother Shelley
Brother Shelley:
I wonder, Brother Greeley. Could we sing that chorus, “Zion is calling” maybe as our last worship chorus? I just had a burden drop into my heart for Israel. And I feel like that the Lord was giving me a little indication in my spirit that we should pray. Because the enemy again, of course all the time they are…
I believe it’s many times by the help of God that they’re able to intervene and stop so many tragedies from happening. But I felt something very fearful drop into my spirit, just a few moments ago. And I want us all to sing that chorus one time through and then pause and pray, just pray that the Lord will protect His people. And that He will, again, cause all these secret things to be exposed.
You heard about… Sister Weems put it in the prayer directives how this, what would’ve been a tragedy, what you call it, fell in the bed? A rocket fell right in the bed with a mother and her children and didn’t go off.
You know, that’s just God. We don’t know why it doesn’t happen that way every time, but… I’m not trying to be dramatic or anything. But I just felt something. I think we should sing that, because Zion is a place of course.
We can take you to physical Zion, natural Zion. But the people of God have a calling. Zion calls you. But once you’ve ever been touched, once you’ve ever been touched by Israel and the Jewish people, you’ll never be the same. There’s always a pull that cannot be explained.
And for hundreds of years, the church has lost her burden and her care and her compassion for Israel. And God is reestablishing that in the nations of the world. And so let’s just believe that God will send great protection, that He will do whatever needs to be done to prevent such a great loss of lives, is what I was sensing in the Spirit. Sing that through one time before we pray further.
Brother Greeley:
“Zion is calling…”
Father, we come before You tonight on behalf of the nation of Israel. God, we know that even as the enemy has faced, tried to face off with the Bride of Jesus Christ, destroy them. He is trying to do the same thing to the covenant people of God, the nation of Israel. We come against every attack that he would try to do against Your people.
God, I ask You that You would help those in intelligence. I pray, oh God, that somehow by the way of prayer that Your angels would stop every missile, or every rocket, or whatever it may be, that would try to come against Your people. Every suicide bomber, may they be stopped in the Name of Jesus Christ.
Lord, we lift up a blood-stained banner against the enemy of Your people. And God, we ask You that You would let Your angel encamp around the nation of Israel. Oh God, let Your Spirit be known. God, draw and move in the Name of Jesus Christ. Let every power of darkness be put down and thwarted in the Name of Jesus Christ.
We bind every power darkness in the power and authority of Jesus Christ. And we loose and commission the angels of Almighty God. As You have spoken to us before, to wrestle missiles and rockets, suicide bombers. God, that they would be stopped, that Your people would be saved. In the Name of Jesus Christ. We’ll honor You and praise You, Lord.
When we hear the report of those things that were stopped, because we know, oh God, that You have done it. And we glorify You. For it’s in the Name of Jesus Christ that we pray. Hallelujah…
Fruit For Labor
July 30, 2004 (Friday Evening)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
I just had a vision.And I saw baskets that were empty being filledwith the most luscious, delicious, enticing fruit.And it was from God.And the Lord wanted me to say that it was fruit for labor.Because some of you have labored in the faith, and in evangelism, and in reaching out,and you’ve had many days of empty baskets.
But the Lord said, “There’s about to be a change.“And I saw God getting ready to give you fruit for your labor, hallelujah,and souls as a harvest for the efforts that you’ve been putting forth, and planting seed.I claim that for this church as well, for this little ministry here.
Gold Being Exposed as the Heaviness Rolls Away
July 31, 2004 (Saturday Evening)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
When we were singing that, I saw the top of a snow-covered mountain. It was very tall, in the Spirit I could see. It was covered with what seemed like loads and loads of snow. I saw a little commotion at the top. But I couldn’t see exactly what was causing the disturbance. But I saw the snow began to come rolling down the mountain.
What do they call that? An avalanche. I could see that snow beginning to roll. And it started rolling down one side, and then here another side. And I could see that the whole mountain was beginning to avalanche, and all the snow was beginning to roll off the top of that mountain.
And underneath I saw the purest color of gold that I had ever seen. And I knew that the Lord wanted me to tell somebody that God is getting ready to move away that heaviness in your life, that spirit of depression and heaviness.
God is getting ready to roll that away from your life. And it’s going to come in a quick motion of the Holy Ghost. Anybody hear me? And it’s going to be caused by just a wave of God’s hand over your life. Huh? God just somehow is going to wave His hand over your life. And that’s all it’s going to take for that heavy snow.
You know, snow is wet and heavy, and people die every year in those avalanches. But I saw God causing the commotion on your mountain, rolling all of that old heavy snow out of your life. And that depression and oppression. And I saw that underneath was pure gold.
And we like to think of gold, because gold is the reflection of the Glory of God. And God is saying that what you’re going through right now, underneath the surface… All we can see perhaps, when someone looks at you, maybe all they see is heaviness. But what they don’t know is, underneath all of that heaviness, God is bringing forth His gold, His glory, His value in your life. Glory be to God. Hallelujah.
I Am Your Answer
August 1, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Message in Tongues & Interpretation given through Brother Shelley
Yea, from behold, the Lord would say unto thee this night, I am Your answer, saith the Lord. Yea, I have been and yea, I always shall be. Yea, it matters not this night what the question is, I am the answer, saith the Lord.
Yea, I the Lord thy God would say unto thee, I have remained the same. Yea, I have changed not. Yea, My ways are the same. My love is the same. Yea, the way that I deal with man is the same. Yea the Lord would say unto thee in this hour, where everything around you changes, the Lord would remind you, there is something that has not and will not change.
Yea, My Word is the same. My power is the same. Yea, I the Lord thy God would call unto thee this night to look unto Me and have life. For yea the Lord would say unto thee, the enemy of your soul would desire to trip you. Yea, he would desire to see you destroyed.
Yea, he would desire to see you afflicted but I am the Lord thy God and if you will look unto Me, saith the Lord, you’ll find that which you’re looking for. For I am your answer. Yea, you would say in your heart, “I’ve tried the Lord.”
But I want to say unto you this night, I have not failed you, saith the Lord. But you’ve allowed the weakness of your flesh to overcome you to the place of giving up. But I have not forsaken thee, nor have I forgotten thee. Nor have I unsaved thee, saith the Lord.
And I call to you, pick up, saith the Lord, even where you’ve left off and press toward Me. For I have great things for those who will walk under My hand in this last hour. Yea, I will scour thee and cleanse thee, saith the Lord, and I shall never remind you of yesterday.
For when you come to Me and ask, it’s all that I require is that you ask. And when you ask, yesterday and all the other days are wiped away, saith the Lord, never to be remembered against you again.
Yea, My Presence is hovering over this house, not for one, but for many who have left Me. Yea, I the Lord thy God would say unto thee, I am more than a pair of glasses. I am more than a telephone. I am more than something you would leave behind by mistake. It’s not by accident that you leave Me behind, saith the Lord. It’s something that you have to do of your own will. But I have not remained behind.
No, I have followed thee, saith the Lord, because you’re Mine. And I’ve watched after you and watched for you when there was no one else to protect you. And yea, I the Lord thy God would say unto thee, I have followed you even to this place and I’m wooing.
And yea, I’m calling. Lord. . . (Tongues) For the Lord would say, I see your hurt. I see your pain. And I know pain, and I’m acquainted with hurt and grief. Yea the Lord would say unto thee, I shall carry it for you if you’ll commit it to Me.
If you’ll lay it at My feet, I shall carry it and you’ll never have to bear it again. For I am the God of miracles, the God of new beginnings, the God of fresh starts. Yea the Lord would say unto thee, I see the fear in your heart.
Many of you are afraid because you know there’s a responsibility that goes along with following Me. But if you’ll let Me, I’ll give strength to your shoulders. Yea, I’ll strengthen your ankles and feet for walking. I shall not suffer you to fall, saith the Lord.
Yea, I the Lord thy God, know all things. And yea, I have seen even the thing that the enemy has plotted for you. And I’m calling to you now. I’ll not wait until the enemy has had his way, but I’ll call you now. I call you in this hour. I’ll give you a chance for mercybecause I love you, so saith the Lord. (Tongues)
Prove Me Now & See
August 2, 2004 (Monday Evening)
Message in Tongues given through Sister Adelaida Vidal & Interpretation given through Brother Shelley
I kept hearing the Lord, I kept hearing the Lord say, “Prove Me now and see. Prove Me now and see. Prove Me now. Prove Me now and see.” Hallelujah. I kept hearing that little phrase over and over again. “Prove Me now and see.” That’s why I decided to praise the Lord with everything I could, because I came into the church with such a sharp pain in the right side of my lower back.
And I kept hearing the Lord say, “Prove Me now and see. Prove Me now. Prove Me now and see.” Hallelujah. Lord, we’ve come to prove You tonight. We know Your Word is yea and amen. We know Your Word is true. We know Your promises we can depend on them. So we’ve come to prove You, Lord. Hallelujah.
Let’s prove Him tonight. Let’s put Him to that proof. Hallelujah. What that means is, let’s step out in faith. We’re not testing the Lord, or proving Him because we’re wondering whether or not He’s going to move. That’s not what He meant.
But you know, in Malachi when He spoke to us about giving, He said, “Prove me now and see if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that you don’t even have room enough to contain.”
I think God wants us sometime… I know He does. He spoke it into my spirit tonight. He wants us to prove Him and put Him to the test and see if He will not do what He said He would do. That’s what I’m doing in my back, is I’m proving the Lord tonight and believing for a miracle.
But you’ve got a need. You’ve got something you need from the Lord. The Spirit is saying, “Prove Me tonight. See if I won’t do what you need me to do. See if I won’t keep My promise. Tonight.”
I’m not asking the Lord to give me a miracle in the morning. I’m asking Him for a miracle tonight. And you can do the same thing. Right now, Lord, we release our faith. We turn our faith loose toward You, oh living God, and we believe for a miracle.
If you’ve got a pain in your body, if you’re suffering with anything, I want you to put your hand on that part of your body if you can, and I want you to prove the Lord right now. I want you to believe with me right now that the Lord will move that pain, that He’ll move that condition, whatever it is.
He’s the mighty God of Israel and He is sovereign. He is omnipotent. He has all power. He is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above that which we could even ask or think. Let’s put Him to that test tonight and prove Him. Hallelujah.
Gathering What Has Been Scattered
September 12, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Prophecy given through Brother Shelley
For the Lord would say unto thee in this hour, that which the whirlwind hath scattered, saith the Lord, yea, that which My mighty wind has scattered, yea, I the Lord thy God shall bring it together. Yea, from this hour on, saith the Lord, I shall begin to gather all that has been scattered. Yea even in this place, saith the Lord.
You shall see with your eyes and know with your knowing, saith the Lord. For I shall show you My handiwork. And yea, it shall not be only in the little things, but you shall see Me in the greater things, saith the Lord.
For from this moment on, I shall begin to set in place, according to My will and My plan. Yea, I shall move and direct and redirect, saith the Lord, all that has been scattered by My whirlwind.
Yea, and even what the devil has received glory for, even what man has given the enemy credit for, saith the Lord, yea, it was My wind. I did the scattering. Even as I scattered the nation of Israel, saith the Lord, it was not hell that scattered her. It was I, said God. I scattered her. And yea, it has been Me, saith the Lord, that has brought her back.
And yea even in this hour I’m calling her again, to re-gather her and to set her in the land that is forever hers. And even that which I am doing in natural Israel, saith the Lord, shall I do in spiritual Zion. And I shall re-gather all that has been scattered by My whirlwind, and I shall set each and every one in their place. For this is the appointed and set time, saith the Lord.
Know this; I have called unto thee and called unto thee again. Yea, I have called thee so many times, saith the Lord, that many have taken it to be common. And many have not regarded My call, saith the Lord, because you have allowed it to become like a broken record in your ear.
And yea, it is even at times caused you to feel repelled and pushed away. But I am the Lord and I call unto thee by My Spirit this night. And I say unto you, do not turn a deaf ear to My Voice. But hear Me and hear Me well, saith the Lord. For yea, it is time. Yea, the set time has come. And I shall favor this house, saith the Lord. And I shall cause you to move from your seat of do nothing, and I shall place you in the channel of My Anointing, saith the Lord.
I shall call you from your place of lethargy, from your place of laziness, said God, and I shall cause you to be busy and busy and busy again for the furtherance of My Word. For again I say, the set time has come and I shall set you in the place that I have chosen for you, saith God.
A New Mantle
September 12, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley
God is so good. As I was praying a few moments ago for someone over there, I heard the Lord speak in my spirit and say that He had a new mantle for us to wear. What a joy to wear it.
Honey Dripping from the Diadem
September 26, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Vision given to Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
And they’re dancing before that and you’re just taking it all in. And you’re feeling, at least I was feeling such a Presence of the Lord. And I began to look up, because they’ve been commenting about the birds and how the birds were flying around.
And I began to look up and just between me… We were about second, there was an older couple sitting and we were standing right behind them, right against the fence. But between where I was standing and the wall, I saw in the Spirit what looked like a diadem or a rod that a king would hold.
How many of you know what a diadem is? And it appeared to be a diadem. And it was going this way, across the Kotel. And I just, I closed my eyes like that for just a moment and opened my eyes again. And in the Spirit I could still see that diadem.
But the thing that was the most impressive was, as I began to focus on the tip of it, the tip of it was like a knob, like some kind of little knob on the end of it. And I began for some reason to focus my attention on the end of it. And I began to see something dripping from that diadem.
And at first in the Spirit I thought that it was oil. And I was already going to rejoice. You know, I was already feeling wonderful about it. I thought, “Oh, that’s the oil of the Spirit being poured out.” I was so excited about that.
But I began to notice that it wasn’t pouring like oil, but it was dripping slowly and would drop. And it was dripping slowly and it would drop. And I began to think for a moment in the Spirit, “Why is…?”
You know, I knew that it was a vision, but yet I had this consciousness, “Don’t they feel it? Can’t anybody see it? Can’t they feel it dropping on them?” Although I knew that it was in the Spirit. And I realized that it was not oil, but it was honey that was dropping down.
Coming Out of the Fog into Great Clarity
September 26, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Vision given to Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
I just saw in the Spirit that there’s someone here that’s been walking in a fog. I saw it like a foggy vapor around you. You’ve been walking in a fog. The Lord says you’re seeing, but you’re not seeing clearly the way you want to see.
You just feel like you’ve kind of been covered with a fog. And the Lord said it has something to do with the atmosphere of… Something to do with the atmosphere where you are. I don’t know if that means, where you live, where you worship or who you fellowship and associate with or…
I don’t know exactly what that means. But it has something to do with your present atmosphere. And it causes you to feel foggy. The Lord said it’s His desire to move that fog and to bring you into great, great, great clarity.
In fact, I want to give this word to the body. Because I believe this is a body ministry. I believe the body is going to minister before the Lord in great and mighty ways in this move of God that is upon us.
And I don’t believe that we’re going to spend the rest of our existence here in these tarrying sessions, trying to tarry to know what God’s will is. But I believe that it’s the Lord’s desire to place His will foremost and in the forefront in our lives, so that we know, we just know.
How many of you would like that knowing? We want to pray, of course. We want to seek the Lord. But I want the knowing. I want to know. Because if we don’t have a knowing, we may miss the now. If we have to wait on the knowing, we may miss the now. So I want to pray that and then we’ll finish up.
Father, we’re believing you for that brother, that sister, whoever that would be. We won’t take the time to see who it is. You know who it is. And I speak to that fog in the Name of Yeshua, that has covered them because of the atmosphere where they’re moving, where they’re dwelling, even sometimes where they’re worshiping. Yes, Lord.
Would You bring clarity? And move that foggy and heavy oppression. Move it. You have to go. You’re not of God. You’ve come as a trespasser. Loose the child of the King. Loose them now in the authority of Yeshua. I command you to loose your hold and let the clarity of the Word of God flow in them, that they may see. And for the whole body we pray, a knowing. We pray a knowing of Your will.
Let us be anointed with the anointing of the sons of Issachar, that we may know how to discern the times and the seasons of the Lord. Oh, I’m tired, God, of being late. I’m tired of being early. I want to know Your timing.
If anyone else feels that, join me in that prayer. I want to know Your timing. I want to walk in Your season. I want to know Your set time. I don’t want to miss the event that Sis. Martina was speaking of. Give us the discernment of it. In the Name of Yeshua.
Calling My Remnant Forth
October 02, 2004 (Saturday Morning)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
What glorious days these are before the coming of the Lord. No matter what the devil’s doing, no matter what the enemy’s doing, these are glorious days for the Bride of Yeshua as she is becoming one with Him.
Get your eyes off the world. Get your eyes off of the things that are going on around you. Shut your ears to the things that the devil would howl at you and His accusations against you and tune your eyes upon Him and your ears upon His Voice.
For God will have a people in the last days who will hear the call of the Spirit, Come out of her, My people. Come out of Babylon. Return to the City of God. Come back to the Mountain of the Lord. And I will dwell with you in the tabernacles. I will dwell with you in the succah. I shall be your God and you shall be My people. That is His promise to us. We’ve got a lot to be thankful for this morning.
Hear the Word of the Lord. Hear the Word of the Lord and take your harp down off of the willow and begin to practice again the songs of Zion. Sing them again. Sing them again, for your exile is almost over. Your dispersion is almost over. Your Diaspora is almost over. For I’ll bring you back to My Holy Hill and establish you in Zion, said the Lord.
Begin to practice the songs of Zion, the songs of praise. Begin to rehearse the songs of victory, the songs of joy. Rehearse among the people the shouts of the King. Oh yes. Hallelujah. For we will dwell with Mashiach in this Holy Hill. It’s His Word, His Promise. Out of Babylon. Out of Babylon, into Zion. Oh, yes.
For the Lord said, “It is My desire to take from you the thoughts of Babylon. For too long My people have thought the thoughts of exile. They have not thought like those who have been established in My Word and in My Land, but they have thought the thoughts of the Babylonians.”
Yea, they have thought like those who have been dispersed. But I, the Lord thy God, shall bring you home, saith the Lord. Yea, My people, you shall come home in Me and I shall give you the thoughts of Zion. Not the thoughts of Babylon, not the thoughts of exile, but I shall give you the thoughts of Zion, saith the Lord.
For the Word of the Lord shall go forth from Zion into the uttermost parts of the world. And a remnant shall be called. Yea, she shall leave, yea, leave the place of comfort, the place of familiarity and she shall come home to Me, saith the Lord.
She shall not fear or dread man. She shall not fear the repercussion or the punishment of man, but she shall hear My Voice and depart from idolatry and stand with Me in My Holy Hill by My Spirit, saith the Lord. Hallelujah.
For I’m making up My jewels. I’m calling My remnant forth. And she shall know Me and she shall be strong in My power. I’m breaking down the spirits of witchcraft, saith the Lord, the spirits of rebellion and stubbornness. For I shall not have a people who are stiff-necked and hard-hearted. But I shall have a people, saith the Lord, with a heart that I can write My Word in. With My own finger I shall write My Word into her heart, saith the Lord.
I shall wash her mind. Yea, I shall wash her and purify her thoughts. For I shall give her by My Spirit a mikveh, saith the Lord, and shall purify her from the ways of Babylon, from the ways of exile. She shall know the Truth and the Truth will set her free.
Do not fear to make a stand, saith the Lord. Do not fear. For I shall strengthen your backbone, saith God. Even when you are weary, I shall cause your back to be straight, saith the Lord. I shall cause your face to be set like a flint, even against the howling mob.
Yea, I shall cause you to be established in the Word of the Lord and My Word shall go forth from your mouth. And it shall accomplish that which it is sent forth to do. For I shall even cause the enemy and those who follow him, to be like stubble before you and the Word of the Lord like a fire in your mouth, saith God.
Do not be afraid to speak up for righteousness. Do not be afraid to establish and witness for the Truth. For I shall give you divine appointments, saith the Lord and you shall know that it is Me.
For I am not finished with the Church, saith the Lord. No, I have almost come to a close, but I am not yet finished with her. For the hour is near, saith God, that I shall turn from the Church and I shall cause My mercy to be extended again to the lost House of Israel. But, yea, I am not finished with her just yet. And I shall go forth among her by My Spirit and call her forth, saith the Lord. Many shall leave the place where she has dwelt so long. Many shall leave the things that she has walked in and lived in for so long and walk in present Truth.
For I shall cause a light to shine upon My Word as never before. Yea, it shall be a lonely path, but I shall promise with my blessing, reward. I shall comfort her along the way. And when I have finished with My remnant and My Bride, saith the Lord, then, then, then shall I send a great and a mighty outpouring of My Spirit upon this Land. And even as I am visiting My church, calling out My Bride, I shall continue to bring the exiles from all the four corners of the earth and establish them in the land of Israel.
For I, the Lord thy God, would say unto thee, I shall never suffer the heathen to wrestle it from her hand. For I have given it unto her, saith God. Yea, it shall seem like in the Spirit a tug of war. Many shall look upon the things that are reported in the world and they shall see My people pulling, yea and the enemy of God pulling. And you may wonder in your heart from time to time who’s winning. But I say unto thee, it is not important this hour who seems to be ahead. For I have said that My people shall be the head and not the tail. I have said that I will prosper them and give them the Land. And I shall keep My Word and My Covenant.
Do not be discouraged. Do not be political, saith the Lord. But keep your eyes on Me. For I shall bring the exile home. Yea, I shall empty Russia, saith the Lord and bring forth My people from the north of her, even to the south of her. Yea, I shall bring My people from every province, from every place that she has been scattered.
Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, there shall come the greatest exodus of Spanish speaking people. For I shall bring My elect that has been scattered among the Spanish nations of the world. They shall come home to Israel. I shall establish them in the Land as I am pouring out My glory upon My people, upon My Church and calling forth My Bride. Yea, I shall be working simultaneously calling the exiles home. And the greatest exodus of My people has not yet come, for it is just ahead.
Oh, I am repositioning now. I am preparing now to change the government, saith the Lord. I’m preparing now to bring down leaders and to raise up leaders that My hand is upon. For soon Israel shall open up her gates and shall welcome home, saith the Lord, those that have scattered across the world. I shall not let governments stop it, saith the Lord. Neither shall I let bureaucracy or red tape hinder My Word from coming forth.
For I shall even call the darkest skin home, saith the Lord, without prejudice. I shall establish even the dark skinned in this Land like never before. She shall be filled with those that I have chosen. And nothing shall stand, saith the Lord, nothing will stand in My way. Not the seed of Ishmael, saith God. Neither the Jew who has stiffened his neck and hardened his heart and turned from the God of his fathers. None, saith the Lord, shall hinder My Word from coming to pass in this Holy Place. Hallelujah…
For the Lord would say unto thee again, yea, the Lord would have you to know that I shall begin quickly to make a change, saith the Lord, in the spirit of terrorism in the world. I shall cause the masterminds, those full of hate and venom, to be brought down, saith the Lord. Many of them shall begin to meet their just reward. For I am a God that does not lie.
Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, there shall even be a change soon as terrorism will break forth in nations that have never been touched by it. And what it will cause, saith the Lord, is a shifting in the government. And many, instead of pulling away, will begin to stand firmer. And by doing so, it shall bring justice, saith the Lord, for this world. Surely, troublesome times will be upon this Land. It is My Promise. I have already spoken it.
But yea, the Lord would also say unto thee, I shall not allow the times to become so hard and so wicked, that My people cannot go forth and do the things that I have called them to do.
Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, I shall make mountains low and crooked paths straight for My people to go forth from nation to nation and do the will of the Lord.
Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, Watch close. Watch very, very close. For I say unto thee, even in the next few months, there shall be great changes and repositioning’s in governments. There shall be tragedies. There shall be great outbursts, even in places that have never known the sting of terror. They shall know it, but it is My hand allowing it. And I shall get glory from it in the end.
For there shall be something that the world has never known. There shall be a move of My Spirit in nations that have been shrouded with false religion, with the strongholds of Islam, saith the Lord. I shall penetrate the darkness. I shall go behind the veil and reveal Myself. And all of these things will come to pass because of the things that I have spoken unto you this day.
Rejoice, My people and come with Me, saith the Lord. Come with Me, saith the Lord.
I saw just then in the Spirit, a great shaking among the Hassidim. I saw God beginning to reveal and expose the filthiness and the perversion that has been hidden among the Hassidic people in this Land. I saw the Lord beginning to expose. Because there is a remnant of people there who want the righteousness of God. But I saw in the Spirit that they have been overtaken with secret sins. And some of it ugly and dark and black. And it shall begin to surface as never before. It shall be seen in the news. It shall be talked about from house to house. Do not be afraid and do not even be shaken, saith the Lord. But know that it is Me, that I am doing it.
It shall cause men’s faith to be shaken. It shall cause their confidence in rabbis to be shaken. And it shall cause them to search for something more. I shall turn them, saith the Lord, from the false religions of Eastern mysticism that have invaded their ranks. And I shall cause them to know the power of My Holy Spirit. They shall know and feel and experience My Presence as never before. And all of these shakings and repositioning’s and shifting’s shall bring about the preparation that is needed for great revival in this Land.
For the Lord would say unto thee, those who fight it now and oppose it will one day be those who push it forth. Yea, those who despise the very Name of Yeshua shall one day embrace the Name and publish it throughout the world, saith the Lord. For I shall tear down the enemies of the Messiah. And I shall cause the people to be loosed out from under their evil hand. And you shall know it and you shall know it’s the season, when I begin to uncover and uncover.
Yea and it shall not only reach throughout this Land, but through other lands, saith the Lord, where the Hassidim are concentrated. There shall be great shifting’s and changes.
Yea, I say unto thee again, that many rabbis who have stood in the way and would not go in and would not let people go in, I shall move them from the scene. And yea, I shall even cause their graves to be a reproach to the people, instead of a place of prayer and worship. For there shall come a real eye opening. And My people will be here and live to see it, saith the Lord, for it is nigh at hand. Hallelujah…
Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, America shall never be righteous again, for My hand has been withdrawn in many ways, saith the Lord, from her. And as a nation, she shall never be exalted in righteousness again.
But I say unto thee, that I shall have a remnant of people who will hear the Word of the Lord and they shall know that I am God. And they shall come with Me into the Feast of Tabernacles, saith the Lord. But yea, I, the Lord thy God, would say unto thee, I shall stand in this hour. And I shall perform the miraculous. And yea, I will not suffer, saith the Lord, I will not allow the government of America to be left without a witness. And I, the Lord thy God, shall leave My witness in place, saith the Lord, for My Word to be established. And yea, it shall not be the end of troubles, nor the end of filthiness and violence. But yea, I shall do it as a testimony to the power of prayer. For I will, saith the Lord, change the policy of America towards Israel.
I shall bring down judges who have spoken against her and I shall conquer those in Congress who have voted against her…
[Ed., This Vision was given while this part of the prophecy was being read to the Church.]
Brother Shelley:
I just saw, just then in the Spirit, I saw the embassy moving from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
[Ed., Continuing of prophecy given in Jerusalem]
And yea, the Lord would say unto thee, My judgments shall fall upon the United Nations. I shall bring judgment upon those men and women who have exalted themselves to the place of gods. And I shall do My work without them, saith the Lord.
For there will be a people who will not fear the word that comes forth from her. There will be a people who will move in the timing of the Lord. For this is the days of acceleration. And I shall move quickly to bring My Word to pass. And you shall know that I am not slow to do My will in this hour. It shall come quickly, saith God. There will always be a witness. Yes, God will always have a witness.
Brother Shelley:
Lord, we receive Your Word. One of the promises that President Bush made going into the White House was that he would not bow to the pressure of Congress and the United Nations concerning the moving of the embassy. The American Embassy is headquartered in Tel Aviv because the world refuses to recognize Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel.
And would you believe that on children’s passports, for instance if an American family makes Aliyah, they retain, before they make their final paper work, they retain their American citizenship and have dual citizenship. If a child is born in Jerusalem, they refuse to put Israel on it. They’ll either put Israel. Our government, the American government, they’ll either put Israel or they’ll put Jerusalem. But they refuse to put Jerusalem, Israel, because our government refuses to recognize Jerusalem as the Capital of the nation or the State of Israel.
That’s a very serious thing. And everybody that we take to Jerusalem, we always take them by this big beautiful grassy field that sits near east Talpia, in… near the Has Prominent that overlooks the Old City, that overlooks the whole city of Jerusalem. It’s a beautiful field there. No sign or anything, but that’s the place where the American government has promised, President Bush promised to make sure that the embassy would be there.
But every time the deadline comes up, then the pressure is on and they put it off and they put it off and they put it off.
It’s a very prophetical thing, because over three-thousand years ago, Jerusalem was established as the Capital of the people of God. When David went in and took the city from the Jebusites and established his fortress there and said, “This is the Holy Hill of God,” under the inspiration of the Lord.
I believe that a nation is cursed, that refuses to recognize the Capital of the people of God. It’s a very serious thing. It may sound political, but it’s very Biblical, very, very Biblical. And even my hope was finished. Oftentimes I just thought about it and lost all hope.
But I don’t remember exactly what place it was in the prophecy now, but as soon as it came to that place, I sensed in my spirit and could just see.
And I’ll tell you how I saw it, I saw it like a procession. I don’t know if it will ever come like that. But I saw it like a procession. They’re marching through the streets, establishing, moving and taking this embassy to Jerusalem. And when that happens, it will be a very prophetic thing.
And I want to say this. America only has this hope that God has promised us tonight. This is the hope that we have. If we put someone, if the people of America should not be in the mind of God, (and put a spaghetti noodle in the White House) then there’s no future for these kinds of things taking place.
And that’s why God has promised us tonight. And I claim His promise. And I pray that we haven’t mis-interpreted, or we haven’t laid a wrong interpretation to it. As soon as I recognized what was spoken, I claimed it immediately and believed. And it certainly seems that way that that’s what God is saying. And we’re going to believe with every fiber of our being.
There’s a wonderful anointing here just right now. Hallelujah. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. I know everybody has a cup of tea and this may not be your cup of tea, but it takes all the different ooings and movings and wooings of the Spirit for the will of God to be accomplished.
Opening & Closing Doors at the Changing of the Season
October 9, 2004 (Saturday Morning)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
There were, when the council of prophets got together this year for 2004, and they began to discern what the Lord would say, they saw that 2004 was a year concerning doors. And the Lord was also giving confirmations for everybody that we were fellowshipping and worshiping with.
And one man of God rose up and said, “I see that in the first three months of the year 2004, that God is going to use that season to shut doors in our life. And He’s going to use the next three seasons to begin to reveal and make a way for new open doors.
And then God is going to anoint His people in the third quarter, the third three months of the year to walk into those doors that the Lord has opened.
And you know, I saw God do that many times, spiritually and physically, in the building of our new church building. We were able to walk through the doors that the Lord had opened in that season, and other spiritual applications as well.
But then there was a Word for the last three months of the year, which we have now entered into. October, November, and December. And that word was, that God was going to reveal to His people His plan for them for the next… Was it three years or four? For the next four years, God was going to… In the last three months of the year, God was going to begin to reveal His plan for the next four years.
I said, “Thank God.” It’s October 9th? What, now? And I still don’t have it. But I’m believing for it. Wouldn’t you just like a little glimpse of what God’s going to have you doing for the next four years? It’s yours. You can claim it. It’s a promise.
But you know what? I’m going to keep walking in faith until I get it. I’m not going to pull up a stool and say, “I’m going to sit right here until You tell me what I’m going to be doing for the next four years.”
The Bible teaches us, “Occupy till I come.” Oh, that’s Scripture the Christians love. “They that wait upon the Lord…” Don’t we just love that? “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”
You’ve got to understand the implication of the word, “Wait.” It’s not “Sit down and suck your thumb.” “I’m going to wait on the Lord. I’m going to sit here and suck my thumb.” That word “wait” in the Hebrew and in the Greek, as we find out in the instance where Peter’s mother-in-law was sick with a fever, and Yeshua in Capernaum healed her. And the Bible said she rose up and ministered unto them.
Welcome the King & Give Him a Comfortable Place
October 10, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
But I saw something else. It’s not just about feasting and eating the King’s food. But if you’re sitting at the King’s table, you get to hear the business of the Kingdom. You know, the King talks. And when He feels comfortable, He talks more.
If you want God to talk to you, make Him comfortable. Invite Him, and then wash His feet. Oh, what a visitation those people missed when they let Jesus come to the Feast. But they sat Him in the corner and left His feet dirty. No one anointed His head. No one kissed Him and welcomed Him on His cheeks. No one washed His feet. What a shame. They missed a visitation.
If you want the King to come and visit, make Him feel welcome and comfortable. When I’m comfortable, I can talk. I’ll tell. When people want to get things out of me, if they’ll help me become comfortable, I can tell them. I like to tell the goodness of God, the things I’ve seen the Lord do. I love to tell those old stories of what I’ve seen God do, because it anoints my faith to believe for greater things for tomorrow.
But I can’t do it when I’m not comfortable. I have to feel relaxed and comfortable. And that’s how the King is. If we’ll give Him a relaxed atmosphere. How do we do that? By worshiping Him. Welcoming Him, inviting Him, drawing Him in. He’ll share with us those wonderful things of the Kingdom, those secrets of the Kingdom.
And God said that in the year 2005 we’re going to know the favor of the King. We’re going to recognize our appointed place at the table, experience great seasons of feasting on the food of the King. And we’re going to be able to hear Him share the secrets of the Kingdom.
2005, A Year of Unifying the Bride
October 10, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
And the last thing that I wanted to share with you is that the Lord spoke to me and said that the year 2005 was going to be a great year of unifying His Bride.
And I appreciate that, because it’s not just the Jewish people that have had the exile and the Diaspora, but the Bride of Christ is so separated and scattered. And I don’t mean God wants to necessarily draw her physically into one position. But He wants to place her in a spiritual condition, a spiritual place where she is one.
The Bible said that one of these days the prophets are going to see eye to eye. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful time? These poor little people who depend o the prophets more than they depend on hearing on God for themselves. I don’t know what they’re going to do, because the Charismatic prophets, the Pentecostal prophets are split. Did you know that?
Did you know half of them are prophesying that Kerry is going to be the President, and half of them are prophesying that Bush is going to be the President? One of these days God’s true prophets are going to speak the same thing. And God’s true people are going to see eye to eye. That’s what the prophet in the Old Testament said. I’m looking for that day.
Because some people don’t know how to get a Word from God for themselves by opening the Bible. And they believe everything these little prophets say. Everything they read on the Internet, they believe it. Everything they read in a book, or the Elijah list, or wherever else we get our prophetic info, they believe everything they read.
And it could be very confusing. Because there are people now that are expecting Kerry to be elected. And there are people expecting Bush to be elected. Because the prophets have said so.
But we’re believing that in 2005 God’s going to begin to unify His Bride, and that they’re going to begin to speak the same thing. And they’re going to be able to see the same Truth. And when people walk in unity… You cannot be in unity one with another if you have division. Division precedes completion.
Divisions means two visions. The prefix “di” means to divide, to divide in two. And where there is division, it means there are two visions. And that’s what’s wrong with the church world. She’s got two visions. Some people have a vision for this, some people have a vision for that. And that’s ok, except when the visions are at odds with one another.
Did you know that two thirds of Christianity still wants to convert the Jews? What a terrible divided vision. What a ridiculous thing for us to think that we have to do. It’s not our place. It’s not our job. Convert them to what? They already serve the God of Israel. All we have to do is bring the Messiah to them.
Do you know what you are? You’re the donkey. Just accept it. I could have said it biblically and call, and said it like the Bible said it and offended everybody. You are the donkey that Yeshua is riding on. And I don’t…
I’m happy. I’m happy just to be His little donkey and bring Him to Jerusalem. Amen. You don’t have to be a missionary. Just be a donkey. Bring Yeshua on your back and show Him. Help Him to get here. If you’ll help the Messiah to get here, all will be taken care of.
Three Months of Pruning
October 10, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
The Lord spoke to me this morning concerning the year 2005. And as a preface to that, concerning October, November, and December of this year. He’d already spoken to men of God and said He was going to give us direction.
But the Lord spoke to me and said that these last three months are going to be a great time of pruning in our lives, that He is going to remove from us the dead wood that no longer produces leaves, and eventually fruit. And that’s what we want.
You know, in a bush, a shrub or tree, dead wood can come. It can die. Die all the way down to a certain place. No leaves come, no fruit come. And the only way to save that side of the tree is to cut that dead wood off in pruning, so that a new little shoot will come.
The olive. I think the olive is probably the easiest tree in the world to prune and see it live again. Because it has the tendency to shoot out shoots from the bottom, from the roots. If the trunk dies, the roots keep living and they keep…
That’s how they can say that these trees down in the Garden of Gethsemane, the root stalk is at least twenty-five-hundred years old, because the roots just take a licking. And they keep on ticking. They survive, and new shoots of life come. But the old dead wood has to be removed and cut out of the way.
And I think the Lord was saying that if we’re going to see the direction of the Lord for the next four years, we’re going to simultaneously have to receive the pruning. And that we should spend these next three months ministering to the Lord. That we should focus these next three months.
Instead of focusing on ministering to others… This is hard for people to do. But that we should focus toward now and the end of the year on ministering to the Lord. Worshiping the Lord. Singing to the Lord.
We preachers preach to the Lord, and He doesn’t mind. Sometimes when I’m in prayer, I’m halfway through my prayer and realize I’ve been preaching a sermon. You know, the Word of God just starts coming out and I’m just preaching to the Lord.
And you know, they’ve got the expression in the States, “He’s preaching to the choir.” Because the choir is already behind him, and he’s trying to convert them. And what would you be preaching to God for? But I do sometimes. I just start quoting the Scriptures. “And You know, Lord, it’s just like You said…” And He honors that. Because I mean well, and I’m doing it from my heart. And I think He delights in it. I think He delights in knowing that we know His Word, and that we recognize it.
But He said, “In order for us to enter into 2005 in the right Spirit, we’re going to have to let the Lord cut off the dead wood.” I see some dead wood in my own life. I’m believing that His Angel in visiting me, the Angel of the Lord visited me.
I am nothing, a nobody. A no good, rotten sinful creature in the flesh. But because of what He’s done for me, then He makes us something. It’s Him in us, you know. And I saw that Man in Linen. And I’m taking that personally as a sign that the Lord is going to help remove that dead wood in my own life.
And then the first of the new year will be a time of excessive and accelerated new growth. I believe that even before the winter is past, that spiritually God is going to let those shoots begin. Even as the almonds begin to blossom so early in the season, and little crocuses, you know, begin to bloom when the snow is still on the ground, I believe God is going to let great spiritual growth come to His body, to His Bride after we submit our dead wood.
Prepare a Place
October 10, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
The Lord also dealt with me, as I was standing here, that we made mention of it because… Well, oddly enough, we have contact with a member of the Hassidic community of Jerusalem. A teacher. And he, we were talking to him about baptism. That sounds strange. But he mentioned and suggested that some people baptize in Wadi Kelt. Is that right? And we were passing by there and talking about it. And Sister Nancy said, “You know, perhaps I need to go out there sometimes by myself and see if there’s a place, but…”
The Lord just dealt with me real preciously and said that we should make arrangements and do something to prepare a place, to secure a place, to find a place that we could use. Because I believe that God is going to really give us. Not just Jerusalem-ites, you know Israelis, but the nations. You know Jerusalem, people say oftentimes, “What are you doing in Jerusalem? If you don’t believe in converting the Jewish people, what are you doing there?”
Well, I’m here fulfilling the purposes of God. And one of those purposes is, Jerusalem is the international city. The nations come to Jerusalem. Why, I’ve ministered to almost as many nations in Israel as I have in almost twenty-nine years of preaching the Gospel. I’ve ministered to sixty-seven different nations. Fifty-seven. Is it? Literally, physically been there.
And I think one time we had already added up at Nashishibi Street, we’d already added fifty nations, I think, on our notebook, that had come in there and been ministered to already. And we’ve had several nations here the past year.
And so it’s an international city. And I just sense that the Lord is going to bring people here that need the right baptism for the right hour. There’s a right hour and there’s a right baptism for this hour. There’s a deeper walk in the Spirit, a deeper obedience. And I want us to find a place. Just believe God.
We’re going to be able to do that. I believe that’s part of what God wants to do in this city, is help speak to His own people. Speak to His Church about who He is, what His Name is. Hallelujah. I was so happy yesterday when a young brother came back, who we had ministered to the first weekend we were here. And he said, “I’m not going to close the door,” when we were talking to him about baptism. He said, “I’m not going to close the door on baptism.” And he came back yesterday and he said, “I want you to baptize me today in the Name of Yeshua HaMeshiach.” So we praise God for that. I believe it’s special. Hallelujah.
Preparing a Place for the Glory of God
October 17, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophetic Word given to Brother Shelley | Jerusalem, Israel
We are now living in the last quarter of the year 2004. And the year 2004, the Spirit of God spoke to us to tell us that the year 2004 was going to be a pivotal year in the body of Christ, and that it was going to be of great importance. And that it was going to be a time of preparing a place for the glory of God.
And we’ve done that in the physical sense. God’s given us the grace and the ability to prepare a comfortable place, where we can host, invite and welcome the Glory of God. But in a greater sense, in a deeper sense, He has dealt with us this year about our hearts and about our lives.
And some of us have made leaps and bounds. And others of us have made baby steps. But don’t you be condemned over your baby steps, because it takes baby steps to make strides.
Honey Dripping from the Scepter
October 17, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
I had a vision standing there. I’ll share that with you sometimes. When I was watching this very holy thing, and the tears were beginning to flow, the Lord gave me such a beautiful vision. I think some of you may have, it might have been mentioned to you already. I’m not sure.
But I saw this beautiful… What did we decide to call it? Not a diadem, but what did we say we were going to call it? A scepter. A beautiful scepter appeared before my eyes. Between me… I was standing at the barrier wall of the Kotel, and a beautiful scepter appeared in a diagonal position between me and the Kotel.
And I saw this beautiful liquid begin to drip off the tip of the censer. And my first thought was it was oil. But I saw that it was dripping very slowly. And it wasn’t dripping off like oil at all. And the Spirit of revelation came and I realized that it was honey. It was honey that was dripping off of that censer (scepter.)
And it was special, because I remember the story of Jonathan in the woods. How many of you remember the story of Jonathan when the people, the armies, had become so weak from all their fasting in the war. And Saul in all of his hatefulness had declared that no one should be allowed to eat or drink anything, but to stay in the battle.
And Jonathan came to a field in the woods. And honey was dripping out of the trees. And he took his staff and dipped it down in the honey and tasted it. And the army began to scream at him and they said, “You can’t do that. Don’t you know your father Saul has placed a curse on anyone who would eat or drink until the battle is won.”
And Jonathan, the Bible said, as soon as he tasted that honey, he became enlightened. His spiritual eyes were opened and he began to see his father for who he really was. And he began to tell the people that his father had oppressed the people of Israel too long and it was time. All these years Jonathan had done everything that he could to defend his father, and to be loyal to his father. And he was never willing to admit that his father could be blamed for some of the peril that was going on in the land of Israel.
But as soon as he tasted that honey, he recognized that his father was the one who was standing in the way of the people from being what God had ordained him to be. As I was standing there and I saw this honey dropping down off of this scepter, it reminded me of that call that was going up from the elders, “Don’t eat the honey.” And it reminded me of how the rabbis are keeping people so far away from some of the things that we would like for them to hear and to discern and to understand.
And when people begin to find out there’s more than rabbinical Judaism, that there is, the Messiah has come, the rabbis are always there. Many of them to say, “Don’t eat the honey. Don’t eat the honey. Don’t eat the honey.”
But as I was standing there, I just began to pray, “Oh God, if You just let one person, just one person dare to defy the edict of the rabbis and taste that honey for himself, his eyes would be enlightened and he would see the Message of the End-time, and he would want to share it with somebody else.
It’s hard to enjoy honey all by yourself, when you’re standing in a crowd of hungry people. You just want to share it. And if somebody licks their lips enough, and you smell it, you want some of it. I see God getting ready to do that, and I’m so privileged and so honored to have a small part in what the Lord is doing in the End-time. Not only here, but in the land of the Bible. It’s just the blessings of the Lord.
Visitation of the Angel of the Lord in Jerusalem
October 17, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Related by Brother Shelley
It was about three o’clock in the morning. And I heard a noise in the bedroom. And I thought that one of the brothers had a need, or something that had come up and wanted me to pray. And had come into the room.
I raised up off the bed and the door was still closed. And I sensed if one of them had come in. Wasn’t likely that they had. But if they had, they would have left the door open. And the door was closed.
I closed my eyes again. And I began to smell. I know people criticize this because Brother Branham said something one time about people smelling this or that or the other. I can’t help it. I can’t help it. I know I’ve smelled Him before. I just know, I just know that I’ve been smelling all kinds of smells. And all of a sudden sense His fragrance.
And if you believe that’s not Bible, I’ll show you in the Bible where the Bible said, where the Bride comes forth leaning on her Beloved, she comes forth with His perfume. Now if He’s got perfume, He’s got a fragrance.
I smelled that sweet fragrance. My eyes still closed. Ready to try to go back to sleep. I smelled that sweet fragrance in the room. And I sensed again that someone was coming toward me.
And this is the truth, if I’ve ever told the truth. God certainly hold me to record. I sleep on what is equivalent to a king size bed in Jerusalem. It’s two twin size beds pushed together. That’s how they do it there. And it has one sheet. One king size sheet on it. And it does not have a headboard or a footboard. Just a frame and two twin mattresses. And box springs, I guess. Never looked real close.
And it’s not the greatest bed I’ve ever slept on, but it’s comfortable. And I thank the Lord for it. But it moves a lot in the night because I do. I turn over a lot. And when I do, it slides across the floor. Helped a little bit when Stacey was in the other one, because wasn’t as much give, you know. She had a little bit of weight to hold it down. But when she’s not with me, literally one night I turned on the light in the middle of the night by moving in the bed. Because I had turned over so many times, that the beds had scooted across the floor and touched the night stand. And the cord of the lamp was hanging down.
And it had one of them little flip buttons on it. And literally, in the middle of the night, the light came on. And I said, “Whoa. What has happened?” And I looked. I mean, we’re in Jerusalem, after all. You just don’t ever know. “Whoa.” And I looked over there and I had turned it on by flip sliding into bed. So every night before I go to bed, I would slide the beds together. And several times a day, really. And bump them up against the wall. And with my eyes closed, only sensing His fragrance in the room, I literally felt something, someone bump the bed at my feet, and pushed it against the wall where it had slipped down into the night.
And immediately I opened my eyes. And for the first time in a long time I saw there in vision, standing the Angel of the Lord. And I immediately began to weep. It was so wonderful and so precious and so awesome. And it might have even been then that the thought came to me.
Because it came real quick, “When I could not go to where He was, He came to me.” And it was a privilege. I’ve experienced it many times in years past. But it’s a privilege that’s overwhelmed me. And without going into a lot. Not to bait you this time, but just for the sake of the service. And not knowing exactly what I want to share and what I don’t want to share yet.
I won’t say too much, except that He spoke such precious words. And would you think I was being corny or something if I said it was like honey? His words were so sweet and so precious. I think I saw Him clearer than I’ve ever seen Him before. Enough to make out most of His features.
And to see Him in Jerusalem was a special blessing for me. The first time I had a vision like that in Jerusalem. And the only thing I would want to say is what I shared with the congregation in Jerusalem. And that is. He promised to meet us in a very special way here this winter.
And I’d like to share more, but I can’t just this second. In fact, I started sharing it as I took the pulpit in Jerusalem. And the anointing and the Presence of the Lord came so sweet. I was weeping as I told it. Such a sweet Presence of the Lord.
And then I was telling too much. And all of a sudden I felt that anointing lift. My tears dried up. I felt nothing. And I moved on and preached. And that really stayed in my mind then. I said something to the brothers. I said, “See, I was sharing it and going to tell. And all of a sudden I was about to say a little bit more. It wasn’t time, or wasn’t the place. And that anointing just lifted.” But He so encouraged me to embrace and look forward to what the Lord is doing.
I’ll close by saying this. One of the things that the Lord dealt with me about in preparation to speak on these things was. He spoke to me about the Mezuza. The Lord spoke to us one time and He said, there was a message He wanted to give us in the Mezuza.
But what the Spirit of the Lord spoke to me was. He said, “It’s time.” I hadn’t thought of it like this. He said, “It’s time for My people to affix the Mezuza to their heart. To bind My Word to their heart.”
And the Spirit of the Lord was speaking, “It’s time now to put the Word of God like frontlets…” There is something to live by. There is a standard. The Bible, the Word of God. I don’t think it’s relevant to worry about a church standard when we’re not even measuring up to the standard of the Word of God.
For instance, I don’t know about the record of the finances. But in paying our tithes, that’s not a church standard. That’s a standard of the Word. So I don’t think it’s necessary to debate about something like sandals, or some little something about the standard of the local church. We can. But I don’t see the relevance of worrying about that so much right now. What I feel the Spirit of God is speaking to us about is, binding the Word of God like frontlets between our eyes. And like a Mezuza on our heart. And live a life governed by “Thus Saith the Word of God.”
Think about the things God has required of us. Think about the things that God’s Word has said we must be doing that we’re not. I believe that it’s a part of the revelation, a part of the revelation of closing the old doors and getting ready to open and walk through some new doors.
July 17, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
The Mezzuzah
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley
One of the things that the Lord dealt with me about in preparation to speak on these things, was He spoke to me about the Mezzuzah. The Lord spoke to us one time and said there was a message He wanted to give us in the Mezzuzah.
But what the Spirit of the Lord spoke to me was, He said, “It’s time.” I hadn’t thought of it like this. He said, “It’s time for My people to affix the Mezzuzah to their heart to bind My Word to their heart.”
What I feel the Spirit of God is speaking to us about is binding the Word of God like frontlets between our eyes, and like a Mezzuzah on our heart, and live a life governed by “Thus Saith the Word of God.”
Think about the things God has required of us. Think about the things that God’s Word has said we must be doing that we’re not. I believe that it’s a part of the revelation, a part of the revelation of closing the old doors and getting ready to open and walk through some new doors.
Changing of the Mind by the Anointing
October 24, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophecy given through Brother Shelley
Prove Me, says the Lord, and see. See, My people, see. See if I’m able, said God, to do that which You have believed Me for. And see if I’m not able to use you, saith the Lord. Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, I am able.
Yea, I’m able to raise you up from your place of slumber. Yea, from Your place of handicap, I am able to raise you up and use you to accomplish much for My Kingdom, saith the Lord.
Allow Me to empower you with My Holy Ghost. Allow Me to strengthen you with the joy that only I can give. And be raised up, saith the Lord. For there shall be a change in you. And the change shall not come in your physical form, the change shall come in your mind.
For I shall change your mind with My anointing, and you shall think the new thoughts of the Lord. And the new thoughts of the Lord are for the things that you have believed Me for. Receive this day, and let Me change your old thinking, and give you the thoughts of overcoming and victory. so says the Lord.
Embassy Moving To Jerusalem
October 24, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley
I don’t remember exactly what place it was in the prophecy now, but as soon as it came to that place,I sensed in my spirit, and could just see.
And I’ll tell you how I saw it, I saw it like a procession. I don’t know if it will ever come like that.But I saw it like a procession.They’re marching through the streets, establishing, moving and taking this embassy to Jerusalem.
And when that happens, it will be a very prophetic thing.
Willingness Versus Obedience
October 31, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophetic Word given by Brother Shelley
I was praying one night in Jerusalem. I’d like to minister on this sometime. I was praying one night in Jerusalem before I went to bed, and I was praying about obedience that the Lord would help me to be obedient.
And the Spirit of the Lord spoke into my spirit and said, “I am more concerned…” I got up and turned the light on and got a pen and wrote it down. He said, “I am more concerned with your willingness than with your obedience.” And I said, “Lord, I’m not sure if I understand that or not. You’re more concerned with my willingness than my obedience. I’m not sure if I understand that.”
And He took me to a few verses of Scripture in the Bible and then I began to understand that obedience can be something that we do like a robot. We can obey a command just because we ought to. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that our heart has been touched. But when we’re willing…
When God touches our heart and changes us and we become willing, willingness pleases God. So if we can… And in fact, the Bible said, “If you can be willing and obedient you can eat the good of the land.” There’s a marriage between willingness and obedience.”
Make the First Strike
October 31, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
I just had a vision in the Spirit just that quickly. I saw something. Please don’t make fun of me, you know I’m not a sports fan and neither was the prophet of God to this generation. And all you people who always tell us and quote the quote, “Say what he said, say what he said.”
Well if that’s true, we should, then don’t forget his attitude toward people that made sports a big part of their life. Don’t forget that. But I just saw something that some of you will be able to relate to. I don’t know if they still do it. But I remember being younger and passing by the high school and seeing those metal frames out on the practice field.
Does anybody know what I’m talking about? And against those metal frames would be a padded piece there. And I would see those young football players training in pushing against those metal frames.
Does anybody know what they’re called? A sled. And thank you for knowing because I had no idea. I just saw in the Spirit men pushing against that kind of a thing as though we’re practicing our position of pushing.
And remember the Lord gave us a word not too, too long ago that the church had spent too much of her existence in just defensiveness, in just defending herself and holding her own. Just holding her ground. But that’s not how we’re going to accomplish what God has called us to do in the end-time, just holding our own. But we’re going to have to go forward with the thrust and the push, hallelujah, and make the first strike.
Declaring the Good Things of the Lord
November 14, 2004 (Sunday Morning)
Prophetic Declaration given through Brother Shelley
The Lord is wonderful. I said, “The Lord is wonderful.” Hallelujah. Let’s just worship Him a moment. See if we can get our minds on Him this morning. We are really scattered. We just come before You right now, Lord, to lift up Your holy Name, to worship You, to exalt You, to lift You high in this place. For You alone are worthy of our praise. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Hallelujah…
Oh. (Tongues) Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful is the Lord. Hallelujah. From our innermost being we magnify our Creator. Oh, we thank You for Your tender hands of protection. We thank You for healing our bodies. We thank You for refreshing our spirits and resting our minds. We thank You for the joy of the Lord that has become our strength in this battle.
We bless You that You’ve given us legs to carry us. We thank You for all of Your many blessings on us. You are Yahve-Nissi, You are the Lord, our Banner. And we lift up our hands as a banner, as a flag. We wave them before Thee in Your worthiness, oh God.
We exalt Thee and honor Thee in this house. We gather together in that holy Name Yeshua, the Lord’s Salvation. Oh, we don’t come this morning to smite our breast like the Pharisees and say we are better than anybody else. But we’ve come this morning, humbling ourselves, realizing that it was not us. There was nothing in us worth saving. But it was because of Your knowledge, Your foreknowledge of us, what You saw in us from the very beginning.
You saw that we would make an eternal choice. And by that choice, the Bible teaches us that You have predestinated us to be the sons of God, to be conformed to the image of God, to declare the Word of God with power and authority, to receive the blessings and the benefits of the faith.
We bless You this morning. We honor Thee and lift our voices, yielding up our strength unto Thee, oh Lord. Realizing that You have made us a little weak, so that You could come and be perfected in us. We receive that as the will of God for our lives. Oh, we thank You that now it is Yeshua, it is Christ the Anointed One in us, the Hope of Glory. Hallelujah. We thank You, oh God. We thank You. Oh hallelujah.
Somebody in their praise just built a little pavilion of Glory for us. Hallelujah. Let’s stand in that pavilion of His glory just a few more moments, as we prepare our hearts to receive the Word of God. We stand right now beneath the Chuppah, beneath the Pavilion of Your Glory. Fill us, empower us and strengthen us. Oh hallelujah.
For the enemy has surely laid traps for all of us. This week we have all, probably, become ensnared with the words of our mouth. But oh God, we present our mouths, our tongues, our lips to You. And we pray that You will come with the holy Cherubim of Glory and touch our lips, even as You touched the prophet Isaiah.
And oh, that You would put a watch over our heart and a stay on our lips, that we would not sin against Thee. For we are undone. We are men and women of unclean lips. We need Your Shekinah, we need Your Glory to come and set our lips apart, so that we don’t become ensnared this week with the words of our own mouth.
There is an anointing on that phrase. There’s a glory on that phrase this morning. “We become enslaved. We become ensnared.” We become, we’re made captive by the words of our mouth. We’re standing behind bars of our own creation. We’re bound this morning by our own words this week.
But we come, Lord, this first of the week and we ask that You would give us greater glory, greater anointing, and greater wisdom to discern the trap. That the words of our mouth would not enslave us or capture us, but that we would have anointed words to speak liberty into our own lives and freedom from everything that binds us.
We declare in the holy Name of Yeshua. We prophesy to every bondage. We prophesy to every spirit of doubt. We prophesy to everything that would hold the people of God. And we command that you loose the children of the Most High.
Oh. (Tongues) Oh hallelujah… By Your strength and by Your power we will speak the Words of God in faith. We will declare the good things of the Lord. We will remind ourselves of the promises of God. We will not speak out our circumstances. We will not declare our nervousness. We will not declare our infirmity. We will not declare the things that are wrong. But we will declare this week the things that are right, the promises of God that are yea and amen.
We will claim and speak the Word of promise over every infirmity, over every hard circumstance. We will not be discouraged this week because of our jobs, of the stress and the pressure that our jobs cause. But we’ll speak this week, Lord, if You’ll help us and strengthen us, we will speak this week the goodness of God. We’ll prophesy the promises of the Lord. Oh hallelujah. We’ll build bridges with our words that can cause us to span the chasms and the valleys. Hallelujah. Hallelujah…
For we are not a defeated people this morning. Oh no. We are not a people who will fall apart. We are not a people who are going to lose our minds and end up on nerve pills. We are not a people that are going to end up dying with cancers and all kinds of diseases. But we are a people, when the Lord gets ready for us, Lord, all You have to do is call us in the stillness of the night.
We don’t have to accept what the devil desires to do. We don’t have to be deaf. We don’t have to be blind. We don’t have to be handicapped. But claim this morning that the God of perfection, who created our bodies in His image, we… (Tongues…) We claim that perfect health and perfect strength. We claim new spirits and new attitudes, oh God, in Your Word.
Let Your Word rise up in us this week. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We rebuke the spirits of murmuring and grumbling and complaining, and living like slaves in Egypt. And Lord, we begin to release among us this morning the Fire of God to burn every chain, to burn every fetter. Let them be melted at our feet.
Oh, we declare victory. We declare hope. We declare healing and health. We declare the strength of the Lord. We declare that God will allow us to prosper financially, so that we can bless the Kingdom of God, and send forth the Word of the Lord to the nations of the world who need something more than a testimony. They need something more than a Bible story. They need the power and the authority and the anointing that’s resting on the Bride of Yeshua in this hour. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. (Tongues) Hallelujah…
We prophesy that in this church now, right now. Not tomorrow, not next week, not next month, not next year, but today, we prophesy that a people shall come forth declaring the Word of the Lord, manifesting their son-ship, proving their adoption by the life that they live. That we shall no longer live meagerly, beggarly lives. But that we shall know the abundance of living in Yeshua, in the Lord Jesus, in the power of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah.
We declare that we shall not go around with long faces, and we shall not be those who desire sympathy, from the world and from our brethren. We shall no longer desire the sympathy of others. But we shall desire the comfort of the Lord. And in His Word, we shall be strengthened to do the will of God.
Oh, blessed, blessed, blessed is the Name of Yeshua. He is the Messiah, the Lord’s salvation. And we bless Him this morning. We’re building a tabernacle. We’re building a pavilion for the Glory of the Lord. We’re putting our mind and our spirit on Yeshua. We’re focusing our attention on Him. Let Him rise up among us and heal our sick bodies. Let Him rise up among us and give us the strength to run on.
May He rise up among us and give us a profession of faith, that we declare to the enemy, “You’ve held us long enough. You’ve defeated us long enough. You’ve run us almost crazy long enough. You’ve troubled our nerves long enough. You’ve whipped us with stress long enough.” We raise up this morning. We’ve heard an eagle scream. We know that the mysteries of God are finished. We know that the Lord has prepared with His Word a way of escape.
We receive it. We speak in the Name of Yeshua, and declare that the spirit of Nehemiah and Ezra will fall on this House, and that we will be a people who will work our fingers to the bone to bring the vision of the Lord to pass. For we shall never perish. For this is the house full of vision. And where there is vision, people do not perish, but they live. And they not only live, they live successfully and anointed. They live lives that bring glory and honor to the Lord. Hallelujah.
We curse these viruses and bacterias and germs, and we send them back to hell from whence they have come. We bind nausea and vomiting and fevers, and infections and sinuses. We send all of these things back to the pit. For we know our God. And those who know their God shall be strong and do exploits. He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace is upon Him, and by His stripes we were healed. Hallelujah.
We pray that every person in this house underneath that doom and gloom spirit will be loosed this morning, that You will shake people from the top of their heads to the soles of their feet. And two-thirds of this church who walk in defeat and doom and gloom, and moan and groan, we declare in the Name of the Lord that You’ll shake them loose from the yoke and the cloak of that. And that we’ll leave this house with victory.
Oh hallelujah. Hallelujah. We decree and declare that our conversations shall be changed. And the subject of our conversations shall be changed. And we shall edify and magnify the Name of the Lord. We decree and declare that those of us who make excuses not to be what God has called us to be, that God will cause us to rise above our excuses.
Those of us who have really no desire to be in the House of God, or shoulder the burden of the things of God, I pray, Lord, that every one of those spirits will be loosed off the people of God, and that You will cause us to raise our expectations and believe for the impossible among us.
Oh hallelujah, hallelujah… Strengthen our hearts. Let our physical hearts be strengthened to sustain our body. For we know this morning, the people of God don’t have to die with heart attacks.
Oh Lord, when You get ready to call us, may the doctor have to stop our heart. Let it be so strong, let it be so anointed, let our bodies be so strong, that when it comes time that we should die, oh, that we don’t go the way that other people go. Let us go, Lord, in rest. Let us go in sleep. Let us go without symptoms.
Let cancer never eat or chew on our bodies. Let our faith be above that. Oh hallelujah. We thank You for the miracles. You touched Sister Hoyer with a miracle. You touched Brother Pretzschner with a miracle. You touched Sister Fuqua with a miracle. And Lord, we’re claiming those same kinds of miracles in this House. Somebody give the Lord a praise. Hallelujah. Hallelujah…
Don’t you believe? Don’t you believe that if we’re ensnared with the words of our mouth, don’t you believe the words of our mouth can loose us and set us free? If the Bible said, “Our words can put us in bondage, don’t you believe in the same way our words can loose us from what binds us and set us free?
Oh God, cause us to be fruitful right now. In the Name of Jesus. Lay your hand right there. Lord, cause us to be fruitful in the Spirit. Anoint our spiritual wombs right now, and cause us to be fruitful and bear forth a Man-child in this hour. Hallelujah.
Let us not only be a natural storehouse for bread. But may we store spiritual bread. Feed the hungry. Give to those who are needy. Thank You for the, for this woman that Brother Steve and Sister Laurel met yesterday. Lord, call her. Call her. He said she was recovering from abuse, broken limbs, bruised face.
You see her need. Reach to her this morning. She said to Brother Steve, I used to not believe in speaking in tongues, but I was in a church one time and it happened to me. And there she is. I believe he said, two sons incarcerated. Two of her sons in prison. Lord, we reach out to her by the Holy Ghost this morning, right over in that neighborhood. Send the Spirit of God. Loose her. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah…
One more time, lift up both of your hands. Say, “Lord, we just surrender to Your perfect will. We don’t intend to live next week like this past week. We don’t intend to have another week this week like last week. We don’t intend to fight the battles this week we fought last week. We won the victory over them this morning in the Spirit. We put that under our feet.
We go forth to do the will of God. Hallelujah… Out of Zion, Lord, let Your Word go forth. Hallelujah.
Striking of the Flint
November 21, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Personal Word directed to Brother Shelley
Prophetic Word given by Jeffier Propst
I don’t know if it’s a good time to say this. But I have to say this. This is for Brother Shelley. I’ve been reading in the Book of Jeremiah. And as I read it, all I can hear is Brother Shelley speaking. And Jeremiah warning the people, and warning the people, and warning the people.
And the Lord told me, Brother Shelley, to tell you to set your face like a flint. And I, when any blows come, you know, when something strikes a flint, it automatically causes sparks.
And I was thinking about that and I said, “Oh, Lord. I know the blows will come, but they don’t have to be devastating.” But I said, “If they come, instead of falling down and him falling underneath the blow,” I said, “You just cause a fire to strike. Strike the Fire, Lord Jesus, and let it just glance off and let the Word of God go forth as a mighty, mighty, mighty flame.” And I just thank the Lord for protection.
Speak to the Spirit of Alzheimers
November 28, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Prophetic Word given by Sister Tremain
I get a little scared. But the Lord has been dealing with me. He’s helping me to drop things off, to leave them lay and pick up higher, come up higher. But this week… I’m not a young person, my husband is not a young person.
But that old spirit of Alzheimers has pestered me. Some of, even young people forget. But you see, the Lord, I felt like it was the Lord, and I believe it is because I’m so afraid to get up here. But He said to me. He said, “Speak to that spirit of Alzheimers. Speak to it.”
That power is within me. It’s here. I’m going to do it right now. “In the Name of Jesus Christ, I speak to that spirit of Alzheimers and that forgetfulness. All of that that deals with the mind. I speak to that spirit in the Name of Jesus Christ. You leave this place. You leave this place in the Name of Jesus.”
The Swift Transition
November 28, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Prophetic Word given by Sister Anita Currie
The phrase that keeps going over my head is what God’s been speaking about that swift transition is. Most people think of that as a moving on. But for those who are in labor, for them it’s the most intense part of labor. And God said, that swift transition to bring forth that child or that son. His Spirit, He said that it’s going to be swift. I just thank God for it.
Removing the Old Enemy
November 28, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Prophetic Word given by Sister Joyce Greeley
It’s awful when you only part of it. But I know that this is something that I didn’t come by myself. But they were speaking as the Spirit was dealing, I heard these words in my spirit. “Even as I removed Arafat from Zion, an old adversary…” I don’t dare interpret it or add.
Brother Shelley:
“Even as I removed Arafat from Zion, an old enemy…” Hm. Yes, Lord. You know our old adversaries, our old enemies. Thank You for moving them, Lord.
“We’ll give the glory to Jesus”
The Set Time Has Come
November 28, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Spiritual Song, Sung by Brother Shelley
We’ve come to worship You
We’ve come to worship You
In the beauty of Your holiness
We’ve come to worship You
In the beauty of Your holiness
For You are holy
You are holy
We’ve come to worship You
In the beauty of Your holiness
We’ve come to worship You
In the beauty of Your holiness
For You are holy
You are holy
You are holy
We’ve come to worship You
In the beauty of Your holiness
We’ve come to worship You
In the beauty of Your holiness
For you are holy
You are holy, You are holy
We’ve come to worship You
In the beauty of Your holiness
We’ve come to worship You
In the beauty of Your holiness
For You are holy,
You are holy, You are holy
We’ve come to worship You
In the beauty of Your holiness
We’ve come to worship You
In the beauty of Your holiness
For You are holy
Yes, You are holy. Yes, You are holy
We stand before You in Your holiness
We stand before You in Your holiness
For You are holy, You are holy, You are holy
We’ve come to worship You
We’ve come to worship You
We’ve come to worship You
We’ve come to worship You
We’ve come to worship You
We’ve come to worship You
For You are holy
You are so holy, You are holy
You are holy,
You are so holy, You are holy
You alone are worthy,
You alone are worthy,
You alone are worthy,
You alone are worthy
Oooo…, Oooo…
Do you want to slip toward your seat?
Oooo…
We’ve come to worship You,
We’ve come to worship You
We’ve come to worship You
You alone are worthy,
You alone are worthy
You alone are worthy
We bow before You,
We bow before You,
We bow before You
We lay our lives down,
We lay our lives down,
For You are holy
We lay our lives down,
We lay our lives down,
For You are holy
You are holy
You are holy
You are holy
I’ll have a people
I’ll have a people
I’ll have a people
Who know My voice
Who know My voice
Who know My voice
And they obey My will,
Yes, they obey My will
With no fear of man
With no fear of man,
They obey My will
Like faces of flint, like faces of flint
They obey My will, they obey My will
They obey…
Let’s listen. Play that again. Let’s listen for the Lord. Let’s listen.
For the set time has come
Yes, the set time has come,
To favor Zion, to favor Zion.
Yes, the set time has come,
To favor Zion, to favor Zion.
Yes, the set time has come,
To favor Zion, to favor Zion,
Yes, the set time has come.
You are My people, My holy people
Yes, the set time has come
Be therefore ready, be therefore ready
For the set time has come
Listen for His voice.
Be therefore ready, your garments ready
For the set time has come
Yes, the set time has come
Your vessels full of oil, Your vessels full of oil
For the set time has come
Rise up and trim your wicks
Rise up and trim your wicks
For the set time has come
Rise up and trim your wicks
Hear Me and trim your wicks
For the set time has come
There is transition
Swift transition
For the set time…
There is transition
Swift transition
Hear Him…
For the set time has come
Yes, the set time has come
The earth is groaning
I hear her groaning
For the set time has come
Full adoption, complete adoption
For the set time has come
Spiritual Zion, My beloved Zion
The set time has come
My Spirit woos you, hear Me woo you
For the set time…
My beloved Zion, beloved Zion
The set time is come
Be therefore ready
Your lamps filled and trimmed
For the set time
Oh yes, the set time has come
Be quick to hear My voice
Quicker to obey My will
For the set time has come
I will beautify you
I will beautify you
For the set time has come
Raise you above the fear of man
Raise you above the fear of man
For the set time has come
Open your mouth, open your mouth
For the set time has come
And I shall fill it
I shall fill it with My Word
For the set time…
For the set time has come
We bless You, Lord
We bless You, Lord
We bless You, Lord
We bless You, Lord
We bless You
We bless You, Adonai
Adonai, Yeshua
The set time has come
The set time…
There is a longing, a deep longing
For the set time has come
I hear your longing, I’ve heard your longing
For the set time has come
The actor is the same
He is the same, the same
The set time has come
The scenery may change
The setting, it may change
But the actor, He is the same
It may not be the same place
It may not be the same time
But I am the same
It may be another day
It may be another year
But I am the same
Focusing on Those Hiding from What God Wants for Them
November 28, 2004 (Sunday Evening)
Vision given to Brother Shelley
There was a strange phrase in the song, the spiritual song tonight concerning the setting changing, the scenery changing, but the actor remaining the same. The reason why those words came out is because at that very moment, that precise moment, I saw a vision.
I saw a stage. I’ve been waiting for the right time to share it. I saw an old wooden stage, old wooden, antique looking theater stage. And I saw that the floor was very… What do you say? Slanted. The seats were on a slope.
And there was one lowly spotlight operator way up at the top behind these seats up high. And the spotlight was as big as he was. It was just huge like this. And it had a handle on it that came behind. And he moved that handle. And when he moved it, just like a metal bar, and when he moved that metal bar, it moved the spotlight. I saw that there was some movement on the old wooden stage. It looked like actors moving in the shadows, but I couldn’t make them out.
And all of the sudden, the spotlight operator began to search the stage. It was almost a comical looking thing, because he couldn’t find the actors. I’ve been in productions like that. And here he was moving all around the stage, but very nervously, trying to find the actors. And he didn’t seem to be able to focus on them.
And you could hear voices, but not very loud and not very clear, just mumbling. The actors were mumbling, but you couldn’t see because it was dark, just shadows. And all of the sudden that light began to just kind of move up and down like this, searching, quickly, the stage. And finally, over in the far-right hand corner, there was one single actor. He must have been speaking to someone off the stage, off the stage.
There was one single actor, he was kind of hiding behind some scenery of some kind. And the spotlight fell right on him. And it seemed to startle him. And the Spirit of the Lord spoke to my spirit as I saw that quick scene.
I knew that God was not saying… Normally my first reaction would be that God is saying, “I’m going to turn the searchlight on. I’m going to expose sin. I’m going to expose unrighteousness.” And that’s normally what I would think that God was saying.
But the Spirit of the Lord spoke to me and I knew that what God was saying was that He was about to focus in on those who have hidden themselves from what God has called them to do.
And I could see that this scenery had no form. It had no shape. It was between him and the crowd. Just his face was, just a little bit of his upper body was out beyond this piece of scenery. The light just caught him. All of the sudden, it found him and caught him. I could see that this scenery had no form or no shape. And the Spirit of the Lord ministered to me that it represented all kinds of different things.
And that’s why I couldn’t make it out if it was a tree or what it was. Because it represents a lot of different things in different lives. The things that we sometimes use, that we sometimes hide behind. Not because we don’t want God to see us, but we don’t really want God to use us.
Let me say it again this way. That’s not exactly how I want to say it. We want God to use us, but we don’t really want God to use us. I think that in all of my imperfections and in all of my growing up…
I mean, you’ve got to understand I was nineteen or twenty when I came here. And so some of you, Brother and Sister West especially and others, have been here long enough to watch me grow up, sort of, really. Although I had a ministry before I came. But in all of that, I think people have seen one thing. At least you’ve seen this, that it really is something to be used of God. That it’s costly, that there are requirements.
And I remember one time some children said to their parents, “We don’t want to do the Lord’s work, because we see what it’s cost Bro. Shelley. Why would we want to be preachers and…? Because we see the cost involved.”
And there is. And the enemy will sometimes cause you to focus on the cost and the suffering and cause you to miss the blessing of being used of God. I think everybody here knows how serious it is to be used of God. If you do, just hold up your hand.
You know it’s serious. And it’s not that your hearts’ desire is not to be used. You want to be used. But there’s a little bit of fear of what it’s going to take and what it’s going to consist of in your life.
And I could see in the Spirit, people kind of hiding in this vision of the actor. But the spotlight found him. Shined right on him. I couldn’t sing that. I didn’t know how to sing that. That didn’t come to me in the Spirit.
So I could see in the Spirit, the song that was coming was a little different, meaning that this is another hour. It’s another time. The scenery’s changed. The calendar has changed. The setting has changed. But Jesus, Yeshua, is still the main One. And whatever is accomplished, He’s still the One accomplishing it today. Amen.
Brother Branham talked about the Greek drama and about the mask changing, but the actor being the same, playing different parts. He typed that to Satan. But on at least one occasion, he also typed that to how the Spirit of God changed. Not forms, but down through the ages, how the Holy Ghost had a different part and moved in a different way. The ox age and so forth.
Whatever the need was in that time, that’s how the Holy Ghost came and moved. But it was all the Holy Ghost. You see, it was all Jesus. So I feel like the Lord wants to say tonight that whatever your tree is, or your rock, or your bush, or your shrub, or whatever you’re hiding behind, God sees you.
And He’s going to place the spotlight on you, cause you’ve got a part to play in this drama. So just be ready for it. Just be ready. And what’s the worst thing that can happen? You fall flat on your face and somebody who loves you is going to pick you up and say, “Go on and do it again. Try again. Try one more time.”
You’ll be like me. You’ll preach hundreds and hundreds of times, if you’re a preacher, and sometimes God will really speak to you and sometime you’ll fall on your nose. But I don’t ever consider quitting. When I know God’s really used me and the Anointing’s really been there, I thank God for it.
But when I know that I’ve stumbled and stuttered and stammered, I don’t ever consider quitting. I just say, “There will be another time. There will be another opportunity. I’ll be better, obedient and clearer and try to get my point across better the next time.” Let the Lord use you. Don’t hide. Don’t hide and give that poor stagehand such a hard time, the spotlight man. Let him find you and use you in the kingdom of God.
The Light of the World
December 7, 2004 (Tuesday Evening)
Spiritual Song, Sung by Brother Shelley
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach
The Light of the world
The Light of the world
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach
You are the Light of the world
You are the Light of the world
You are the Light of the world
Yeshua__HaMeshiach
You are the Light of the world
You are the Light of the world
You are the Light of the world
Yeshua HaMeshiach
You are the Light of the world
You’re still the Light of the world
You’re still the Light of the world
Yeshua, HaMeshiach
You’re still the Light of the world
You’re still the Light of the world
You’re still the Light of the world
Yeshua, HaMeshiach
This is the season, the season for miracles
This is the season, the season for miracles
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach
It’s called the season of miracles, Hanukkah.
This is the season, the season of miracles
This is the season, the season of miracles
This is the season, the season of miracles
This is the season, the season of miracles
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach
This is the time of rededication
This is the time of rededication
We are Your Temples
We are Your Temples
We rededicate ourselves in this season
This is the season of rededication
Fill us with Your Oil
Fill us with Your Oil
Fill us with Your Oil
Fill us with Your Oil
You are the God, the God of miracles
You are the God, the God of miracles
You are the God, the God of miracles
You caused the Oil to be multiplied
You caused the Oil to be multiplied
Multiply Your Oil in us, increase Your Oil in us
You are Yeshua, the Light of the world
Increase Your Oil in us
Let Your Oil be increased in us
As we rededicate our temple unto You
We have been defiled by the things of the world
We have been defiled by the things of the world
But tonight we rededicate our temple unto You
Tonight we rededicate our temple unto You
Come and dwell with us in this season for miracles
Come and dwell with us in this season of miracles
Chase away the darkness
Chase away the darkness
Chase away the darkness with Your Light
The Light of Meshiach
Chase away the darkness
Oh, chase away the darkness
Chase away the darkness
By the Light of Meshiach
Oh…
Your grafted branches, we sing our praise to You
We’re Your grafted branches, and we sing our praise to You
The Life is in the root, Your Life is in the root
Your grafted branches, we sing our praise to You
The Life is in the root
Oh, Your Life is found in the root
And we, Your grafted branches
Sing our praise to You
We who were foreigners and strangers, even aliens
We who were foreigners and strangers, even aliens
But we are Your grafted branches
You have called to us
We have heard Your call, Yeshua HaMeshiach
You are the Light of the world
In this season of miracles
You are the Light of the world
In this season of miracles
Sing a little of that.
You are the Light of the world in this season of miracles
Chase away the darkness, oh, chase away the darkness
Let the darkness be removed by the Light of Meshiach
Let the darkness be removed by the Light of Meshiach
You are Yeshua, Yeshua the Messiah
The Hope of Israel and all who love her
You are Yeshua, Yeshua the Messiah
The Hope of Israel and all who love her
The Hope of Israel and all who love her
The Hope of Israel and all who love her
You are the Light of the world, Yeshua HaMeshiach
You are the Light of the world, Yeshua HaMeshiach
You are the Light of the world, Yeshua HaMeshiach
December 7, 2004 (Tuesday Evening)
Spiritual Song given by Brother Shelley
Hallelujah.
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach… (Repeat…)
The Light of the world (repeat)
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach (repeat…)
You are the Light of the world (repeat…)
You are the Light of the world
Yeshua HaMeshiach… (Repeat…)
You’re still the Light of the world (repeat)
Yeshua, HaMeshiach… (repeat..)
This is the season, the season for miracles
This is the season, the season for miracles
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach
This is the season, the season of miracles repeat…
You are Yeshua HaMeshiach (repeat)
This is the time of rededication (repeat…)
We are Your Temple
We are Your Temple
We rededicate ourselves in this season
This is the season of rededication
Fill us with Your Oil, fill us with Your Oil, (Repeat…)
You are the God, the God of miracles. (Repeat…
You caused the Oil to be multiplied, (repeat…)
Multiply Your Oil in us, increase Your Oil in us.
You are Yeshua, the Light of the world.
Increase Your Oil in us,
Let Your Oil be increased in us,
as we rededicate our temple unto You.
We have been defiled by the things of the world. (repeat…)
But tonight, we rededicate our temple unto You.
Tonight, we rededicate our temple unto You.
Come and dwell with us in this season of miracles. (repeat…)
Chase away the darkness,
chase away the darkness.
Chase away the darkness with Your Light,
the Light of Meshiach.
Chase away the darkness,
oh chase away the darkness.
Chase away the darkness by the Light of Meshiach.
Your grafted branches, we sing our praise to You.
We’re Your grafted branches,
and we sing our praise to You.
The Life is in the root, Your Life is in the root.
Your grafted branches, we sing our praise to You.
The Life is in the root.
Oh, Your Life is found in the root, and we,
Your grafted branches, sing our praise to You.
We who were foreigners and strangers, even aliens,
we who were foreigners and strangers, even aliens,
but we are Your grafted branches,
You have called to us.
We have heard Your call, Yeshua HaMeshiach.
You are the Light of the world in this season of miracles.
You are the Light of the world in this season of miracles.
You are the Light of the world in this season of miracles
Chase away the darkness, oh,
chase away the darkness.
Let the darkness be removed by the Light of Meshiach.
Let the darkness be removed by the Light of Meshiach.
You are Yeshua, Yeshua the Messiah,
the Hope of Israel and all who love her. (repeat…)
You are the Light of the world,
Yeshua HaMeshiach
You are the Light of the world,
Yeshua HaMeshiach (repeat)