October 10, 2025

God Stopped Time

Tomorrow (October 11, 2025) will be a significant day in the U.S. as millions of Americans partake of the Lord’s Table together (Communion America). Many will do so onsite in Washington, D.C., and multitudes will join online from around the world (some have been doing so since last night). Believers will be reminded and partake of Christ’s victory at Calvary - both for themselves and for the nation/s, and satan will be reminded of his crippling defeat at the hands of Yeshua. 

The timing of this has been orchestrated by Holy Spirit. At the prayer banquet in D.C., for the Supreme Court, this past Monday night, Chuck Pierce spoke of God stopping time for Joshua and Israel. They needed more daylight to win a strategic battle, a battle being waged to honor their covenant with Gibeon (Joshua 10:1-14). Chuck shared that God had “stopped time” for us in America so that we, too, might win our current battle for the soul of America. He wasn’t speaking literally, of course, but figuratively, stating that God has altered the times and seasons (Daniel 2:20–21), giving us the time needed to shift and restore our nation.

I shared after Chuck and changed my message to piggyback on the prophetic word God had given him. I spoke of the different words for “time” in Scripture and how knowing which “time” we are in determines our actions. I declared that we have entered “the right time“ (horaios) not only to shift the Supreme Court, but to see America revived and restored (I’ll explain this word momentarily).

God does not pour out His Spirit simply when He “finally chooses or decides to.” As the eternal God who sees the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10), He does not have to “finally decide” whether or not He wants to do something. His works and ways are predicated on principles and truth, not His mood or emotions.

Where revival is concerned, God must release it when hearts are hungry and ready to receive Him. He uses the desperation and needs of people to create this hunger, as well as using the prayers of His people in this process. He also prepares the church to work with Him in these outpourings of His Spirit. All of this is coordinated to converge at the appropriate timing. 

Here is a short summary of the different times and seasons in the New Testament. First of all, there is the Greek word chronos. This is “general time, a season of time.”(1) Our English word “chronology” originates from the Greek word. In the life of a farmer, this would be the season of plowing, sowing, tending to the growing crop, and the many other practical aspects of preparing a harvest. 

Then there is kairos, a word meaning the “strategic or opportune time.”(2) Again, using the analogy of a farmer, this would be when the crop has ripened and is ready to be reaped. These two words can apply to many subjects, however, not just to farming. 

We can see these phases in the lives of Abraham and Sarah. Abraham was told that they would have a son. Most of us would expect the child to come relatively soon after receiving the word. They certainly did. Instead, however, they entered into a 24-year chronos season in which God was preparing them…and no doubt continuing to prepare the world regarding His redemptive plans. At the appropriate time, Yahweh appeared to them again—24 long years, lots of miles, and many struggles later—stating that it was time (Genesis 17:21). The Lord told them that Sarah would have a child within one year. They had shifted into a kairos season: the “opportune time” had arrived. 

But there is yet another stage of timing: “the right time” to act. In Acts chapter 3, Peter prayed for a man who had been born lame and was now over 40 years old. As a young boy, his family placed him at one of the prominent temple gates, a gate named “Beautiful,” where he daily begged for alms (Acts 3:2). Because of the gate’s location, Jesus had to have passed by this man dozens–if not hundreds–of times without healing him. Most other Israelites knew of him, having seen him while in Israel for the major feasts. Although Jesus had passed by him many times without healing him, on this day, just after Pentecost, Peter was led by Holy Spirit to do so.

Interestingly, the Greek word translated as “Beautiful” in this verse does not mean beauty in the literal sense of attractiveness. The word, horaios,(3) actually means “right time.” Occasionally, it is used figuratively to mean beautiful because when events and circumstances come together in the right way, at the right time, it creates something “beautiful.” The “Beautiful Gate” was “The Right Time” gate.

Think about the incredible picture this gives us. Holy Spirit orchestrated the naming of this gate–“The Right Time”–years earlier. He made certain that the lame man’s family chose it as the place he would sit daily and beg (His chronos season began). And He led Jesus NOT to perform the miracle (still the chronos time). He was saving it for just “the right time.” Holy Spirit knew the early church would reach a kairos, an opportune window of time when they would need this miracle, a sign and wonder of incredible proportions, to verify throughout Jerusalem and all of Israel that Jesus was truly the Messiah, and that He rose from the dead. Peter, shown that it was time to step through this right time “gate” (horaios), reached down and jerked the man to his feet. All of Israel, knowing of this crippled man and of the astounding miracle that had taken place in the name of Jesus, was certain that Jesus was the Messiah, and had risen from the dead. 

America has come to a horaios time, the time for her salvation and healing. God has adjusted time, creating “the right time” for our miraculous recovery. Isaac is not yet born, but Sarah is in labor. I concluded my message Monday night with a quote from my friend Clay Nash’s father; Holy Spirit reminded me of it earlier that day. When Clay and his dad worked on difficult projects and finally reached the potential for success, his dad would sometimes say: “We’re not finished, but we can get there from here.”

On Monday, I heard Holy Spirit say, not only regarding the shifting of the Supreme Court but also regarding the restoration of America, “We are not finished, but we can get there from here.”

Keep praying, friend. And join us as we exalt the Lord through Communion over our nation tomorrow. 

Pray with me:

Father, we are confident in Your wisdom and understanding. Your ways are always right. You never have to react to satan’s or man’s actions, hoping that You are making the right decisions. You have been planning and preparing for another great season of harvest around the world, and have been preparing Your people as instruments of this revival.

We recognize the times and seasons, and can discern with our spiritual eyes that the harvest is ripe. As Your harvesters, we know we must be ready. Help us to do so, Holy Spirit. Sharpen our sickles. Fill our lamps. Fine-tune us to Your gifts and voice. Give us Your ideas and instructions on how to prepare. Awaken the watchmen to sound the alarm even more. Awaken Your leaders to the fact that we cannot conduct business as usual in this hour.

We declare that America will participate in this harvest. We are being awakened, restored, and re-commissioned! Communion America is part of this, both a statement and a release. Our statement is that we overcome by the blood of the Lamb on the Mercy Seat of Heaven. And through our partaking of the Lord’s Table together, we are releasing the power of Your shed blood to give America a great reset and restoration. All of this we pray and declare in the name of Jesus. Amen. 

Our decree:

We decree: it IS the right time for America’s restoration; and “we can get there from here.” 

You can learn more about this weekend’s communion gathering on the Washington Mall at Communion America.

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1. James Strong, The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1990), ref. no. 5550.

2. Ibid., ref. no. 2540.

3. Ibid., ref. no. 5611.

October 9, 2025

“Prodigal America” Is Running Back to Father’s House

I mentioned in earlier posts that I was in Washington, D.C., this week for some prayer assignments. I also spoke for a prayer banquet regarding the Supreme Court. All of the events were successful. I am a bit weary but persevering.

When in D.C., I always find myself reminiscing over the past 35-40 years. Though the journey has been long, it seems to have flown by, as the years have a way of doing so.

I admit that when it comes to patriotism, I am incorrigible. This hasn’t always been the case. I usually tried to sit in the back of my American history and civics classes so I could catnap—or at least doodle—without being caught. My patriotism did not develop until God began to grip my heart with His purposes for America. 

It wasn’t that I ever bought into the anti-American movement of the ‘60s or ‘70s; I always saw through that and had a general respect for my country, as we all should. But there was no passionate love of America. Actually, when Ceci and I graduated from Bible college, our plan and desire were to go to another country to do missionary work. It came as a complete shock to us when the Lord began showing us that He wanted us to stay right here and minister in America. 

For the first several years of our ministry, I continued to struggle somewhat with this. The charismatic and Jesus people movements had waned, and the church was on a subtle and relatively unperceived slippery slope toward apathy, complacency, compromise, personal aggrandizement and success, rather than purity and a passion for Christ’s cause. I gradually became somewhat disillusioned with the American church, and watched as some fruit of those two revivals began to wither. 

It was in the last half of the 1980s that I began to feel this could change, that America could experience another revival and awakening, first in the church, then in the nation as a whole. God had awakened my heart to the power of prayer, and began showing me His unfolding plan to transform the church through prayer and worship. These two forces would release transformative revelation and restoration, and I watched as this began to unfold. 

Then Holy Spirit began to impart His heart for America to me. It wasn’t a delusional belief that America was loved by God more so than other nations, or that we were somehow superior. He loves all people in every nation. To the contrary, the love He began placing in my heart was linked to His passionate love for ALL people everywhere. He began showing me the destiny, the purpose for which He had raised up America: to take the gospel of His Kingdom to the ends of the earth. This culminated in an encounter with God in 2000, when I wept–I believe along with Him– for 3 1/2 hours over “Prodigal America.” 

The word “prodigal,” by the way, doesn’t mean what most people normally think of when using the term–rebellious, running away, or backsliden. The word actually means to waste or squander. The young man in Scripture was wasting and squandering his inheritance, as well as his destiny, identity, and purpose in life. The riches were only part of his losses. Restoration meant not only having his needs met once again, but having his signet ring of sonship and authority restored. 

America’s rebellion against God has cost us many things. But the greatest tragedy has been squandering our partnership with Him, the unspeakable privilege of partnering with God in the recapturing of His dream, His family on earth. On that occasion in 2000, I wept with the Father over our prodigal nation for 3 1/2 hours; at one point, He said, “I MUST have America for what I am going to do throughout the world in this hour.” This was the sealing of His call on my life: helping bring our prodigal nation home to Father. 

As I reflect on all of this, I realize that the entire decade of the 1990s for me was God’s preparation for this calling. Slowly, methodically, and incrementally, He was giving me the understanding of prayer that I needed, as well as a revelation of His heart that I would also need. When He finished, I knew what He wanted for America, why it mattered so much, and how He would eventually accomplish this. 

And after that night, I knew I would never be the same. 

I always reminisce about these things when I go to D.C., and can feel afresh God’s heart for America. I’m not enamored with the fancy buildings, the political figures, and the seats of power. None of these means anything to me. Nothing. I’ve never once asked to meet a government official. I care about one thing and one thing only: a Third Great Awakening that will save millions of people and turn this prodigal nation back to the Father…and back to its calling and destiny. This calling will then contribute to the greatest worldwide harvest of souls in earth’s history. 

We are approaching this harvest; we’re actually in the initial stage. This is a hinge year of history, and the door of worldwide harvest is swinging open wide. Revival is coming to America and the world, and will not be stopped. That’s what I was focused on while in D.C., earlier this week, and it’s what I’ll be focused on when I return for Communion America later this week. [Although it begins Thursday night, I won’t be there until Saturday.] Join us as we celebrate the Cross and Resurrection of Christ, His victory over death, hell, and the grave. Join us in calling forth the return of prodigal America through the Third Great Awakening. And join us in calling forth the great worldwide harvest in which the Lord Jesus will receive the reward of His suffering.

Pray with me:

Father, we humans sure made a mess of Your plans for us. We defiled not only ourselves, but brought curses upon the earth You gave us. But in Your foreknowledge, You had a plan for our redemption and restoration before our fall ever occurred: Your Son, the “Lamb” that would be slain for the sins of the world. Our new creation in Christ was declared in heaven before our first creation in Adam even occurred. You determined to have a family, whatever the cost. 

This week, we will celebrate the victory of the Cross and Resurrection. We’ll celebrate the inevitability of everything You promised being fulfilled. We will celebrate Your greatness and Your love. And we will celebrate our calling, our commission to help grow Your family.

We declare that our once prodigal nation, which You said You must have, is now running back to Father. We declare that this weekend, the power of the blood of Jesus on the mercy seat of heaven will be released once again over America and throughout the earth. We declare that we will go through the door You have opened, moving into this opportune time for revival and restoration. We will go through it and reap this great harvest, releasing Your Kingdom authority throughout the earth. In Christ’s name we will do so. Amen. 

Our decree:

We decree that what was once “prodigal America,” is on a sprint back to Father’s house.

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October 8, 2025

God is Giving Us A New Start

I am back home today…preparing to go back to Washington, D.C. for Communion America! What a week this is. In today’s post, I want to share a dream with you that I shared a while back on Give Him 15. I’m doing so because it is very applicable to the communion gathering taking place in D.C. this week, and it is very encouraging.

On April 7, 2020, our friend Gina Gholston had this significant dream. At the time, many who read and heard the dream assumed it was referring to the 2020 presidential election, as it clearly shows President Trump returning to the White House. Several other prophets also received words from the Lord, including dreams, visions, and prophecies, which indicated that Trump would be re-elected, and most of them assumed it would be in 2020. It turns out, the Lord was speaking of 2024. 

This was a strong lesson for the body of Christ regarding the interpretation of words from the Lord. The timing can sometimes be difficult to discern, and we must always be cautious not to make assumptions. It is also a strong lesson for those who criticized the prophets, some of whom went so far as to label them “false prophets.” However, many prophets obviously DID hear accurately regarding Trump’s reelection; it was the timing that was wrong. Here is Gina’s dream:

“On April 7, 2020, I dreamed that President Donald J. Trump was walking on the bank of a small river. At first, it seemed he was pacing back and forth, but then I realized he was actually looking for something. He said, ‘I was told something had been left here for me and I came to find it, but I’m not seeing it.’ He continued to search, but finding nothing, turned to walk away.

“Just as he turned, a wooden crate, measuring about three feet wide, a foot in height, and two feet from front to back, came bobbing up in the water. I could see down in the water, and several people were lying on the bottom of the river. They had been holding the box, but had lost their grip on it, and it rushed to the surface with a splash. President Trump turned to see what caused the splash. When he saw the wooden crate, he reached out, pulled it to the bank, took a knife from his pocket, and used it to open the lid.

“Inside, he found an old Bible, an Appeal to Heaven flag, and communion elements (bread and wine). He immediately took the Appeal to Heaven flag, draped it over his shoulders, and knelt with his right knee on the ground. He placed the Bible under his arm, held the cup of wine in his left hand, and the bread in his right. Then, with tears flowing, he began to pray. With the Appeal to Heaven flag still draped over his shoulders, he looked down at the Bible and communion elements with great admiration and said, ‘This is it! This is what I came to find!’

“Suddenly, a huge slingshot appeared, and President Trump stood and positioned himself in it. A hand came into view and pulled him back into the slingshot, launching him from that place. He still carried all of the items he had found in the wooden crate. Just as the President was launched from the slingshot, the ‘bottom feeders’ who had been in the river holding down the wooden crate came out of the river and tried to grab him. It was too late, however; he was already airborne, and they couldn’t stop him.

“I then saw Trump land perfectly, on his feet, like someone finishing a parachute jump. He landed on the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., where he was about to give his second inaugural address. This speech was anything but normal! He wrapped the Appeal to Heaven flag around his shoulders and held the old Bible in his hands. I then realized this was one of the Bibles he used when he was sworn in at his first Inauguration Ceremony, a gift his mother had given him, who had connections to the great Hebrides Revival.

“Through tears, President Trump said, ‘God is taking us back, and He’s giving us a new start. Now, we are rightly focused. We’re getting back on track.’ He led the nation in a prayer of sincere repentance. Then he took the communion elements he had found in the wooden crate and led the nation in Communion.” (End of dream.)

Takeaways From the Dream

I believe that as America’s President, Trump finding the Bible (representing God’s Word AND revival), the Appeal to Heaven flag (which represents prayer), and communion elements (symbolizing covenant relationship with God through Christ) speak of both him AND America rediscovering these things. He actually says in his speech, “He’s taking us back, giving us a new start, we’re rightly focused.” Though satan and Trump’s enemies have tried to stop God’s purposes, they failed, and will continue to fail. 

President Trump led the nation in a prayer of repentance. I know revival is coming to America (and other nations) and that this is associated with national-level repentance. I also feel God has – and will continue to draw President Trump to Himself, and fill him with the Holy Spirit. In the dream, when he found the Bible, the Appeal to Heaven flag, and the communion elements, President Trump fell to his knees and, through tears, said, “This is it! This is what I came to find!” We must pray that our President has “God-encounters,” continually “finding” this close connection to the Lord. 

As you participate with Communion America this week, know that this is “rightly focusing” us and “getting us back on track,” as the dream states. Give thanks to our great God for all He has done, especially for His mercy.

Pray with me:

Father, You have done an amazing thing. What is impossible to man is possible to You. Thanks for putting the person You chose to lead America at this time back in the White House. Satan and people tried EVERYTHING to stop it: assassination, lawfare, corrupt judges, censorship, lies, and betrayal. But You had other plans. 

We ask You to use President Trump greatly. Fill him with Your Spirit, give him a passion to know You, and impart great wisdom to him. Cause him to walk in humility, being confident in You alone. At the same time, give him great zeal as You did Jehu when he purged Baal worship from Israel, and as Jesus demonstrated when He cleansed the Temple. And although we are asking You to use Donald Trump, we declare that we are NOT looking to him as our Savior. Unless YOU build the house, we labor in vain (Psalm 127). We ask YOU to save America, just as You have promised. 

Protect those in D.C. this week, the thousands gathered there to celebrate Your mercy and salvation over America. We bind every work of darkness, every plan to bring harm, and ask for Your protection. Keep everyone under Your shadow, Your wings, and Your angelic hosts. And lead in all that is said and done. Be glorified in our land! All of this we ask in Yeshua’s name. Amen. 

Our decree:

We decree that an outpouring of Holy Spirit is coming to America, a Communion revival, bringing back a love for God’s Word, passionate prayer, and covenantal intimacy with Christ.

You can click on this link to join Communion America online. There will be events each day, October 9-12.

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