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The Hostages Are Home!


Today, we celebrate peace in the Middle East after President Trump and other leaders signed a historic peace agreement. President Trump was in Israel for the release of the hostages, and also made a historic address to Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. With dozens of world leaders in attendance, this significant peace agreement, brokered by President Trump and signed in Egypt, ended two years of fighting in Gaza. Trump said, “This is the day that people across this region and around the world have been working, striving, hoping, and praying for. With the historic agreement we have just signed, those prayers of millions have finally been answered. Together, we have achieved the impossible. This breakthrough that we’re here to celebrate tonight is more than the end of the war in Gaza; with God’s help, it’ll be the new beginning for an entire beautiful Middle East. All the momentum now is toward a great, glorious, and lasting peace, and our commitment to fulfilling the 20-point plan we developed together will be the crucial foundation for achieving that bright future.” Trump suggested that the next phase of the plan would be rebuilding from the rubble in Gaza. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also tirelessly contributed to the negotiations of the peace plan, which took nine months.(1)


After 735 days of captivity, Hamas released all of the twenty living Israeli hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. The remains of four of the twenty-eight deceased hostages were also released, and others are supposed to be coming. 


While the excitement over the release of the hostages is palpable, many details of the peace plan remain to be finalized. These include the governance of Gaza, the disarmament of Hamas (which they have thus far rejected), and Gaza’s demand for statehood. So far, Israel is saying no to that. 


“Mr. Trump’s plan to end the war also stipulates that regional and international partners will work to develop the core of a new Palestinian security force. 


Reconstruction will be another major challenge. The World Bank and a postwar plan proposed by Egypt estimate that at least $53 billion will be needed to rebuild the shattered Palestinian territory. Egypt plans to host a future reconstruction conference.”(2)


Regardless of the challenges and what happens as they move forward, the progress thus far is enormous. Without President Trump’s efforts, including his savage blow to Iran and his efforts to build bridges in the Middle East, this would have never happened. We must pray that breakthrough continues and peace prevails. 


And as we give honor to President Trump for his efforts, we should recall that his efforts have resulted in the ending of eight major conflicts/wars around the world: 


  • Thailand & Cambodia

  • Israel & Iran

  • Rwanda & the Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • India & Pakistan

  • Serbia & Kosovo

  • Egypt & Ethiopia

  • Armenia and Azerbaijan, and now

  • Israel & Hamas


President Trump has also completely changed NATO and its 32 members. Each country of Europe and North America was required to share 2% of its annual budget with NATO for the defense of Europe. Most of them have not done so for years, expecting the U.S. to protect them and the American taxpayers to foot the bill. Trump said, “No more.” The percentage was raised to 5% and incredibly, all of the nations are now stepping up to the plate to pay their fair share.


Russia and China are now being weakened by the tariffs. Russia is also being weakened by its war with Ukraine, as well as America’s financial pressure. Trump has now agreed to sell some very nasty weapons to the European Union, which they will provide to Ukraine. These weapons will prove devastating to Russia. In short, God is using this man to radically transform the international scene. Pray for him; he is hated by the powers of darkness and those they influence.


President Donald Trump will go down in history as the Peacemaker President, probably more than any other. Many are comparing him to Winston Churchill, the statesman and leader, primarily known for leading Britain to victory in World War II. 


Our President is also being compared to the Persian King Cyrus. God used this sixth-century king to fulfill His divine purpose and plan for the Jewish nation. We must continue to pray for him and his team, asking God for wisdom and protection. God is using President Trump to bring healing and the beginning of peace to Israel and the Middle East. For this, we are grateful.


For months, many have been saying that the Prince of Persia’s hold over the region will be dismantled. This is that. That does not mean, of course, that there is no longer any satanic or demonic influence in the region. But this spirit/principality has been creating chaos, death, and destruction in that region for thousands of years. That influence is being removed and will result in a great, great spiritual harvest. This harvest has already begun, of course, but will increase dramatically. As we give Trump and his team the credit they deserve, don’t forget to thank the Lord, who made it possible, and those whose prayers birthed this in the spirit. 


On Monday afternoon, after working on today’s post, I was on a call with several prophetic leaders discussing the peace plan in the Middle East. Some of the themes and words they have been receiving included:


  • Isaiah 19:23-25 is a word for now. It speaks of a highway the Lord creates from Egypt, unifying them with Assyria and Israel. 

  • Isaiah 60 was mentioned, which speaks of the light and glory of the Lord transforming nations, as well as camels and ships bringing the wealth of the nations to serve His cause. 

  • We are on the cusp of an incredible revival and harvest throughout the Middle East. It was strongly emphasized that God loves not only the Jewish people but ALL people in that region. One person prophesied that an incredible revival would come to Gaza. 

  • Also on the call, there was a recurring theme that we must not grow complacent but continue to pray against obstacles, ensuring the enemy is not successful in distracting or wearying the church and thereby altering God’s plans and purposes. (Daniel 7:25)


We are living in incredible times that demand our focus, determination, and commitment to the Lord’s plans. We must continue to walk in the anointing of Issachar (1 Chronicles 12:32), discerning the times and seasons, which enables us to know what to do. God is trusting us with much; we must steward it wisely.


Pray with me:


Father, we are living in incredible times and are in awe of what You are doing. You are Lord over the nations, and are working to position them for this great coming harvest. We are partnering with You in this, praying not only for our President and his team, but also for harvesters to be raised up and principalities to be pulled down.


Father, we rejoice that the hostages were released, and new beginnings in the Middle East have begun. We are excited about what You are doing. The strongholds of darkness are being dismantled, and light is shining. Your glory is coming forth and will shine like the midday sun (Isaiah 60). You love not only the Jews, but the Arab population as well, and came to offer Yourself as a sacrifice for the entire world. Continue to release dreams and visions in that region, and raise up powerful evangelists to preach Your gospel. Send evangelists to Gaza, just as You sent Phillip into that region, on the road “to Gaza” in Acts 8:26.


And we bind every attempt of the enemy to weaken the church, to distract the intercessors, and thereby alter the times and seasons. We declare that this will not occur. All of this we pray in the all-powerful name and authority of Jesus. Amen. 


Our decree:


We decree that we will not miss this time of visitation (Luke 19:44), and the harvest God has planned for our day will not be stolen.


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Mega Grace, Mega Power, and Mega Miracles


The Communion America gathering in Washington, D.C., was a powerful time. I am confident it brought pleasure to the Father, allowing Him to release mercy over our nation, a mercy that will increase the momentum of revival here and around the world. God loves to grant mercy. Thank you for participating; I know some of you were there in person, and others joined online. You are part of the Ekklesia and army God has raised up to partner with Him, and your participation in events such as this is truly significant. 


Today, I want to mention another important meeting taking place this upcoming Friday night. I will give you specifics at the end of the post. First, consider the following thoughts regarding a small but powerful word.


The English word “mega” comes from the Greek word megas, the word for “great.” Megas means “great, the highest level of rank, excellence, or importance; greatly surpassing others of its kind.”(1) Our English version, “mega,” was first coined and used, so far as is known, in 1968.(2) There can be megas intelligence, idiocy, wealth, peace, pain, fame - almost anything. There is also a different form of this Greek word megistos, which means exceedingly great.” It’s one thing to be mega, another thing to be exceedingly mega! 


The New Testament uses the word megas numerous times, referring to various subjects. I find it interesting and appropriate that it only uses megistos once, when speaking of God’s amazing promises: “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust” (2 Peter 1:4). How about that: exceedingly mega promises!


Apostle Paul spoke of a megas door for effective ministry being opened to him in Ephesus (1 Corinthians 16:9). He added that there were also many adversaries, but regardless, he was going to remain there for a season: the megas door was greater and more important than potential problems. Was it ever! Read Paul’s letter to the Ephesians and thank him for going through the door. 


The Scriptures also speak of megas wonders and miracles: “And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people” (Acts 6:8). Evidently, there are miracles, and then there are great miracles. Perhaps healing a broken bone would be a miracle; creating one would be a mega-miracle. Walking on water would qualify as a mega-miracle! As would raising the dead! The healing of the lame man at the Gate Beautiful in Acts 3 would certainly be a mega-miracle. 


Deacon Philip was used to bring healing to “many” lame and paralyzed people in Samaria (Acts 8:7). These would certainly be mega-miracles, and verse 8 tells us they produced “megas joy.” I imagine so! That may be a megas understatement! 


The megas miracles in Acts were caused by “megas power” and “megas grace.” “And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all” (Acts 4:33).


My belief is that the mega-grace released the mega-power. Grace is undeserved favor, mercy, provision, and ability. We don’t deserve God’s kindness based on our own righteousness and works; it is a gift to us through Christ. We are saved by grace through faith in Christ.


The church in Acts had identified with Christ. His blood from the Mercy Seat of heaven had cleansed them and imparted God’s very own righteousness to them. They now had continual access to His “all-sufficient” grace, releasing God’s power and causing them to “abound (excel) in every good work” (2 Corinthians 9:8). Mega-grace releases mega-power. 


Several leaders, including me, will be hosting another Healing Summit this week, Friday night, October 17, in Middletown, Ohio. We are asking God for and expecting a megas door to open, a door of megas grace, producing megas power and megas miracles, resulting in megas joy. We are basing this faith on His “exceeding great” promises. 


If you can’t attend, join us online. Many churches will actually participate in this way, worshipping with us, listening to our exhortations, and then praying for people themselves as we begin to do so. We love this, believing that the purpose of the summits is not only to pray for people, but to pray for a release of signs and wonders EVERYWHERE. We are not promoting our ministries, but Christ’s. Signs and wonders that point to Him will accompany the great revival that has begun. 


I’m sure most of you know that Christ is not Jesus’ last name. The word means “the anointed one.” He is “Jesus, the Anointed One.” And by God’s grace, the Anointed One has anointed all of us with the same power-producing oil of Holy Spirit with which He was anointed. Please pray and believe with us that this oil flows on Friday night to heal the sick and diseased. Let’s ask for this now. 


Pray with me:


Father, You tell us in Your Word that signs and wonders will accompany the preaching of the gospel (Mark 16:15-20). Although there has been a lull in this over the past few decades, at least in America, we believe the atmosphere is pregnant once again with Your miraculous power. You told us to ask for the release of this power (Zechariah 10:1), therefore, we are doing so. We ask that You send the rain of miracles throughout the world, miracles of such magnitude that people are awakened to the reality of who Jesus is.


Our hearts are moved, Father, over the suffering of people. Use believers everywhere to bring healing and deliverance to others. Release the gifts of Your Spirit to perform megas miracles and deliverances. Increase revelation and faith among believers, enabling them to believe for this, and stretch forth Your hand to heal. 


Use this service in Ohio to increase signs and wonders throughout the earth. Cause it to be an “intercessory” meeting, through which gifts of Holy Spirit are released to the body of Christ. And we ask that Your power be present to heal on that night, that great signs and wonders be done in the name of Jesus. Use this gathering and the miracles produced to bring great glory to Him. And in His name we pray, amen.


Our decree:


We decree that great grace, great power, and great miracles are increasing in the earth.



To learn more about the upcoming Healing Summit in Middletown, Ohio, Friday, October 17, visit OasisWired.org.


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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.

 
 
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