Tomorrow is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday Tomorrow is the third Sunday in January, celebrated in many churches in America as the “Sanctity of Human Life Sunday”. Life Matters Worldwide provides many resources for Churches to assist us in setting tomorrow aside as a holy day of intercession for the ending of abortion in America. God is a God who created life. He sustains life. He provides eternal life through the former work of His Son on the cross and in the power of His resurrection. His Holy Spirit today continues to draw people to Jesus, convicting them of sin. As we receive Christ, we enter that eternal life with Him. But, there is a devil, the arch-enemy of Jesus, who seeks to do all that he can to steal, kill and destroy lives so precious to God. Abortion is the number one killer of humanity worldwide. Why are we allowing this to continue?! There is a way out. There is hope. There is a Savior! Jesus came that we might have life and that abundantly, from the womb until we take our final earthly breath. There are always answers, once we get past the fear Satan causes when we sin against God. There is adoption. There is support. There are kind people in churches across the country that aren’t filled with judgement, but compassion, because we remember that we have been sinners, also. Rise up, Church, and decide to be one who lovingly provides answers. There is so much we can do. Let the Church be the place these young moms, dads, and family members can find hope and a future. Christ will give us the grace to help in time of need when we ask Him. “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” (John 10:10; NASB) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Cry out for the unborn! Worldwide, we have now killed more than 61 million babies in the womb. Pray for women today who are finding themselves pregnant and terrified of the consequences of their sin. Pray they find their way to those with God-answers. Intercede for women whose hearts have been hardened and have become convinced that abortion is a normal part of women’s healthcare. Soften those hearts through intercession. Ask the Lord to deliver our country from this heinous crime against humanity. Go here and find materials to help your church pray tomorrow. A prayer you can pray: Lord, our Lord, we cry out for the lives conceived in sin and hopelessness today. We have witnessed the killing of more than 61 million little, newly formed lives. How can we tolerate babies being ripped from the safety and security of their mothers wombs? What kind of society tolerates that? How is it that we are not protecting our most vulnerable with everything we have at our disposal. We are the richest nation on earth. We have money, time, creativity and rule of law. We have no excuse! Give America freedom from abortion. Set us free from this sin and death, Jesus. Change our hearts and change our laws. Give us lawmakers and judges that will choose and honor life. Where there is fear in a woman and a man, a mom and a dad, and family members, intervene! Lead them to those filled with love and compassion. Lead them to those who know where answers can be found. Lead them to the cross and salvation through Jesus, most of all. Soften hard hearts. Penetrate minds that have been taught things against Your ways. Forgive the looking to earthly reputations and financial situations, instead of to Jesus, the Savior, Lover of our souls, and Provider of all things. You are God of the Breakthrough and the way maker. You are the Hope Giver. Jesus. Make us ready for powerful times of intercession for life tomorrow in our churches. Anoint our united cries and prayers for breakthrough. Amen. Today’s decree: We will end abortion in America in our generation!

Words With an Assignment I love Isaiah 55:11, “So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.” (NASB) The Message translation says, “My words will accomplish the assignment I gave them.” When He speaks something into the Earth, He says, “My words have assignments on them. They will accomplish what I have assigned them to do.” You need to be diligent over the next 4 months. There should not be a day that goes by that you are not decreeing something into the atmosphere over this nation. No word spoken by God through you will return to Him without having accomplished something in the earth. Jesus didn’t just think, “Peace, be still,” to the storm. He didn’t just tell his frightened disciples, “The storm is going to be peaceful and still now.” He declared it, addressing the storm, because He knew spoken words have power. He didn’t say it because storms have ears and can hear. He said it because the power in Him needed to get out of His mouth! He said to the fig tree, “No one will ever eat from you again.” He said, “Lazarus come forth!” And, the assignment those words had accomplished what He said. “So it is when I declare something. My word will go out and not return to Me empty, but it will do what I wanted; it will accomplish what I determined.” (Isaiah 55:11; VOICE) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: When you drive through your neighborhood, you need to be saying, “The Glory of God’s coming to my neighborhood!” When you are out and about in your city, you need to be saying, “God’s about to pour out extraordinary miracles that are going to awaken my city and state and region and a nation.” The way we are going to accomplish His Will is to let Him fill our mouths with His Words. Say, “Lord, help me open my mouth and decree what You are telling me to decree.” Decree anything else He lays on your heart. Let His words on assignment flow through your mouth. A prayer you can pray: God, thank You for showing us that You speak through Your people. You don’t just speak things out of heaven today. You speak through Your people. This is the sword you talk about in Ephesians 6. It is Your Word spoken by us! Your Word is not a sword against the enemy until we say it. Thinking it doesn’t do anything to the devil. Help us get our mouths open and speaking out Your words, Lord! Put those words on assignment in our mouths, so we can get them out there creating Your purposes wherever You have destined them to go. Our minds will change as we speak Your words. Our families will change. Our cities will change. Our nation will change. It won’t be because we have faith. It will happen because that faith causes us to release words You have given us to declare, and we have done it. We will say, “The Glory of God’s coming to my neighborhood!” We will proclaim, “God’s about to pour out extraordinary miracles that are going to awaken my city and state and region and a nation.” Fill our hearts and mouths with words and give us the faith to deliver them. You are saying that we will speak for You into the atmosphere of the nation and its going to do something. Our words on assignment are going to do more than make us feel good in a room full of intercessors. The words are going to go out into atmosphere and into the nation and cause things to topple and fall, and cause other things to rise up. Send them forth through us, Jesus. Amen. Today’s decree: God’s words spoken by faith through His people are words on assignment to effect miraculous change!

Limping or Leaping I want to talk about a limp. In 1 Kings 18, Elijah assembled the people on Mount Carmel in what was to be an epic showdown between God and the false gods Israel was following at the time. Elijah says, “‘How long will you halt between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.’ But the people said nothing.” The word for “waver”, or “halt”, there is also the word for “limp”. It’s a word that means “to hop” or “to leap”. It is a good picture word for “hesitate”, because you kind of leap backward and forward mentally, and maybe even physically, while you try to decide something. I like this definition—it’s the word for “Passover”. The spirit of death leapt over the homes with the blood of the lamb on the lintels of the doors. The Lord was saying in 1 Kings 18, “Why are you hesitating about Who you believe in? You should be dancing the dance of rejoicing over the Passover. You should be remembering and dancing and singing, ‘The horse and the rider have been thrown into the sea!’ But, you are limping the limp of Baal.” Listen to me. We are in that same place in America. You need to get up and remember who you are and who He is and start to decree out of a place of rejoicing faith, no longer halting, but sure! You need to decree some things out of existence and decree some things into existence. You need to uproot some things and plant some things. You need to establish the root of His Glory! By Passover of this year, you are going to dance the dance of victory over your enemies! “Elijah stepped forward before all the people and said, ‘How long are you going to jump back and forth between two positions? If Adonai is God, follow him; but if it’s Ba‘al, follow him!’ The people answered him not a word.” (1 Kings 18:21; CJB) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Remember the times in your life when He has saved you. Let praise rise up from you. Let your words of praise, such as, “The horse and the rider were thrown into the sea,” rise up from your lips. What are the things you are contending for now? Decree and declare that God will come through for you! Say over the impeachment drama, “President Trump will be delivered from any false attack of his enemies!” Say over the situation in Iran, “The Iranian government will make right the downing of the Ukranian flight with 176 people on board.” Declare, “This latest conflict will result in the Iranian people being set free to worship the Lord freely!” Christians have been worshipping underground and have been persecuted for their faith. Say, “Iran will not attack the Iranian people demonstrating. Lord, set the Iranian people free!” A prayer you can pray: Father, You are able to take a terrible tragedy and make something beautiful out of it. You are the God of the turnaround. You are the one that turns death to life and darkness to light. We have a decision to make. We need to come to a deeper place of faith were we determine afresh that You are God and there is no other. Jesus, You are the Savior and there is no other way to the Father. No false gods of false religions ever deserves our worship. You are able to deliver. You are able to work huge, nation-changing miracles, just like You did for the Israelites when You sent Moses to set them free in Egypt. We won’t doubt it! We are coming through a major tragedy in Iran. We were seemingly perched on the brink of World War III. However, the underground church cried out in Iran and Believers cried out in the U.S. and other places in the world, and You brought peace and calm into this ongoing tragedy. Lord, one of the awful things that happened was the downing of a Ukrainian jet with 176 men, women, and children on it. They were trying to flee the dangerous situation there and ended up victims, instead. Iran says they shot the jet down, but that it was an accidental and tragic mistake. This is a country led by those in a religious structure that demands retribution for such things. So, Lord, we are praying that Iran honors its ways and makes this right for the families that are suffering today. This has also brought Iranians into the streets to protest the actions of their government. Many are not happy with their government’s response. Let their voices be heard and honored. Use this series of events to bring a freedom to the people of Iran. Set the Church there free to share the Gospel openly. We praise You and say, “You are God and worthy to be praised over this situation!” Today’s decree: We will not halt between two opinions. God is God and there is no other. He will deliver His people! He is our Deliverer!

The Decade of the Decree – Part 2 Let’s look at where God called Jeremiah as a prophet in Jeremiah 1:9-10: “Then the Lord reached out and touched my mouth and said, ‘Look, I have put my words in your mouth! Today I appoint you to stand up against nations and kingdoms. Some you must uproot and tear down, destroy and overthrow. others you must build up and plant.’” God put His words in Jeremiah’s mouth. God’s words create. He put those creative words in Jeremiah’s mouth so he could decree them and they could go forth and create, perform, and accomplish things for Him. He goes on in Jeremiah 1:12 and says, “That’s right. From this know that I am watching over My word until it is accomplished.” No word spoken by God is without power, and He has placed those words in His Ekklesia’s mouth to speak. So, here He is saying, “I am going to talk to My people in this nation through you, Jeremiah. Your words are going to make changes in this nation until I say it is finished!” Are you getting this? His words in our mouth will go forth and DO what He has sent them to do. Some will remove some things. Some will create new things. New physical stuff, like salvation and healing, but also changes in hearts and minds, laws and curriculums. Do you see that? “See, I am putting my words in your mouth. Today I have put you in charge of nations and kingdoms. You will pull up and tear down, destroy and overthrow, build up and plant.” (Jeremiah 1:9b and 10; NCV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: What is God is saying to you? Maybe it is, “I have appointed you over your family.” “I have appointed you over your neighborhood.” “I have appointed you over your child’s school.” “I have appointed you over your city (or county or state).” “I have appointed you over this nation.” Maybe it is an assignment over something else, like lost souls, occult structures, homelessness, trafficking, hunger, or racism. You will know. Whatever it is, accept the assignment. Be encouraged! Rejoice! He will fill your mouth with His words. Say, “God, Your words create! Your words root out, tear down, build, and plant. Your words heal and deliver and transform. Fill my mouth with Your words.” Find one thing out of order in the nation’s government. Ask God for a Word to decree into that situation. A prayer you can pray: Father, You are giving Your Church a deeper understanding of the concept of speaking Your creative words into the earth. In this year of the decree, we are learning something more about the power of partnering with You to receive Your Words and decree them into the earth, so You can create what You need to. So many dreams of Yours will come to pass. So many people will be set free, saved, healed, and delivered. Your Church is going to be on the move. We are going to have to go out and see and decree. We are going to look at things differently. We are going to look at things in the government and know we are anointed as the Ekklesia of God to speak against the powers of darkness and what some are doing there. We will not speak against people, but against what the enemy is doing to prevent Your purposes from coming to pass. Government is not going to shift on its own. We can’t look to government to just make itself right. We are Your government in the earth. Put Your words in our mouths, so we can speak into the atmosphere and shift the atmosphere. We will see things in the earth respond to Your words released by Your Ekklesia. You will be watching. You watch over your Word to asah with it. You will cause it to DO your will. Let the new created things come forth in Jesus’ creative Name! Amen. Today’s decree: Government will shift by the creative Word of the Lord in the mouth of God’s people.

The Decade of the Decree – Part 1 Back in the 1990’s we didn’t operate in declarations and decrees. We just offered up petitions. Around 2000, He said to me, “You will fully shift this nation when the Church shifts their mindset from priestly intercession only to kingly intercession, also.” We have come into the decade of the decree. God says we are going to decree things like we have never decreed before. There is a Word in Hebrew that the Lord has emphasized for me. It is a word used in three familiar verses having to do with decrees. It’s “asah”. Let’s look at it in Numbers 23:19. “God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” (NASB) The word “do” here is “asah”. It means, among other things, “to create”. His words create. When He speaks, power is released to bring forth something, sometimes out of nothing. This is the way we bind and loose, forbid and allow. He tells us what He wants in His Word through prophetic intercession. Then, we say what He says. There was a teaching about “confession” that was in error. The error was that those adhering to it thought they could say anything they wanted to and God had to do it. They thought God had to back up all of their declarations. That’s not biblical. Biblical confession is to say what He says. That’s what the word means, “to say the same thing”. When you say what He says, then power is released from you and God says, “I’ll create with those words. You decree a thing and it will be established.” “By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.” (Proverbs 8:15; KJV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Believe and say, “God watches over His Word to perform it.” Say, “His Word”, again. Repent if you have thought you could say anything you felt was right. Repent for saying things that were not God’s will, but your own. He knows you didn’t understand. Rejoice, because now, you do! Worship for a while. Sit at His feet in humble adoration. As you do, ask Him if there is anything He would like you to declare and decree. Maybe He will begin to speak to you things that are on His heart that He wants you to speak out for Him. A prayer you can pray: God, we haven’t understood the way that You wanted to partner with us. You had a plan to uproot, pluck up, overthrow, but we didn’t get it quite right. In past seasons, we thought we could just say what we wanted. We thought we could just have an opinion and say something to change it. We became very frustrated when our prayers were having no effect. We even became selfish at times with some of what we declared. Forgive us. Let us worship You today. You are worthy of our worship, always. Correct our understanding, even as You forgive us our sin of presumption. If there is something on Your heart that You would like us to know, then Lord, speak it to us. Give us Your viewpoint, Your revelation, and Your Words to decree. The earth is going to be changed in this season. Culture is going to shake and shift. Multitudes of new believers in all sectors of society are going to make the nation different. People will change. Media will change. Laws will change. Dark is getting darker and light is getting lighter. We want to be different. We want to be holy and set apart for You. We want to be those that are filled with faith and carry out Your will. Jesus, precious Jesus, we want to honor Your Name. Amen. Today’s decree: May God’s decrees for this time be released by the holy Ekklesia of God!

Getting the Terminology Correct All the way back in 1986 God sent a prophet to tell me, “You will be a part of the fresh age of the Melchizedek order.” I didn’t know what that meant and neither did the prophet that delivered the Word. As I studied it out, the Lord showed me that Melchizedek was both a king and a priest. He was a type of Christ, of course, who is both the King and the Priest. Then, He says to us that we are a kingdom of priests, and we are a royal priesthood. The priestly anointing is vertical. We offer up worship and requests before the Lord. It is the Church being the Bride. In the kingly anointing, we operate horizontally and we decree. The kingly anointing is the Ekklesia being God’s legislative body in the earth. Ekklesia is a governmental term. When God said He would build His Church, He wasn’t talking about a building, an organization, or a congregation of Believers. Words like fellowship, family, body of Believers, are not synonymous with Church. For example, my wife is the administrator of our ministry. She is a mother, grandmother, friend, and sister in the Lord to me. However, if I introduced her to you as my administrator, life would be very uncomfortable for me for a while. Even though she is both my wife and my administrator, they don’t mean the same thing. So, even though we are the Bride of Christ and the family of God, that was not what Jesus was talking about when He said, “I will build My Church.” He said, “I will build my legislature. My Kingdom will have a government on earth. I will give My government keys—the keys to My Kingdom authority. With them, My Ekklesia will have the ability to bind and loose (legal terms.) And the gates of hell will not prevail against it.” We have not done that very well in the past, but the Ekklesia is coming into a greater and greater understanding that we do have more authority than the powers of darkness. We have more authority than principalities. We can decree as God’s royal priests and kings. “And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” (Matthew 16:18; NKJV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Let the revelation of the devotional today sink in deep. If the revelation is not new, just let it be a reminder of who you are. Pray for the Church to understand what it means to be the Church, the Ekklesia, the legislative Body of Christ in the earth. Intercede for the Ekklesia to prepare for a verbal warfare that declares and decrees the will and purposes of God into the earth. Begin to get your decrees ready. Gather your scriptures. Write them down. Then, speak them out at the moments He shows you. Pastors, teach your Church how to be the Ekklesia. Practice this by releasing them to make decrees during your worship services. A prayer you can pray: Lord, we are privileged to be Your priests and kings in Your eternal Kingdom. We may not fully understand what that means, but we do see that there is a role we have not been fully walking in. This role of authority is foreign to us. It is revealed by Your Spirit to ours. So, Holy Spirit, help us comprehend how the Father wants us to work with Him to decree His will into the earth. Let this revelation spread and spread, to many churches and denominations and other groups of Christians. We want to be a mighty spiritual army in the earth. We do not want to give the enemy ground that is not his to have forever. Let this ancient foe see that the people of God see his wily ways and we are learning to stop him in his tracks. Lord, give us Your assignments. Give us Your scriptures. Make us confident to speak Your Words into the earth, so You can form them into miracles, signs, wonders, and new life. Let our pastors make room in the times we gather together for the Body to be the Ekklesia. Train us all, across many denominations and streams. But, don’t let it stop there! We will go forth with the Word of God in our mouths to the places of influence You have called us to and shift that, too, in Jesus’ Name. Amen. Today’s decree: The Ekklesia, the Church, will prevail against hell’s attack in the earth!

The Judah Tribe “The Judah tribe was that tribe that knew how to use sound to display God’s Kingdom plan. That’s who we are. There is a sound that will shift things. God has a people carrying Kingdom authority who know how to legislate as they move. These know how to make a sound that legislates. “We are going to command new openings this year. The Lord is raising up those from territory to territory to command new openings. When we do this and the sound of our command comes up, or when we agree with the sound that He is sending down, a new opening will come into the atmosphere for the Lord to move. Therefore, we are coming into a new movement. “A new sound must come forth in this nation now. Worship will be critical to defeating the dragon spirit that I have been telling you about. Worship has to come into a new dimension. Your sound will make a new pathway, confuse the enemy, and align things properly with God’s plans where you are.” (Chuck Pierce) “You will also declare a thing, and it will be established for you; so light will shine on your ways.” (Job 22:28; NKJV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Open the Word of God and read it aloud, or just read the scripture above out loud. It is time to get used to the sound of your voice. Say, again aloud, “I will declare a thing and it will be established by the Lord for me; so that light will shine on my way and I can see my way forward.” Declare, “The Church will get ahold of the scriptures to use now as the sword of the Lord in this era. We will declare these things and they will be established for us; so shall light shine on our ways. Our path forward will be made clear.” If there is any other sound you feel led to make, then do it now. It could be a shout or a song or a blast on a shofar. Go ahead and let your sound be heard. What is being opened as you make your sound? Intercede for the Ekklesia to be bold in legislating in the heavens this year. A prayer you can pray: God, You created all things by speaking them into existence. In fact, this is one of the first things You ever tell us about Yourself in Your Word. You spoke and the world came into existence, one thing at a time. Perfect order and perfect plan. How have we missed how important sound is? Religion would hush us up, quiet us down. The political spirit seeks to shut us up, shame us into compliance. No! We will ask You for the right words at the right time and speak them forth. We will agree with Job 22:28, and say aloud, “You will also declare a thing, and it will be established for you; so light will shine on your ways.” We declare it now, individually, “I will declare a thing and it will be established by the Lord for me; so that light will shine on my way and I can see my way forward.” We decree it prophetically over Your Church, “The Church will get a hold of the scriptures to use now as the sword of the Lord in this era. We will declare these things and they will be established for us; so shall light shine on our ways. Our path forward will be made clear.” Kingdom of God, come! Will of God, be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Open the heavens over our families. Open Your pathways for our nation. As our sound rises up, open the heavens and come down and meet us in a Divine way. We decree the season of Acts is here. We will see miracles, all pointing the way to You, dear Jesus. I will sing, praise, worship, shout, and make any other sound You fill my heart with. Let the heavens open and the manifestations of glory begin. Amen. Today’s decree: We are finding God’s new opening and aligning sound now! Learn more about Chuck Pierce here.

Getting Ready for the Dragon-Lion War “God is coming down in the midst of your familiar settings. He has a way to communicate to you. You are going to need to defamiliarize yourself with the atmosphere that is familiar to you in order to hear Him. What is around you now, even those who are around you now, may not realize the new identity God is moving you into. “After Jesus was baptized, he went to the wilderness for 40 days and he came out different. He faced the best Satan had to throw at him. When you face all hell, you will become something different. When you come through something like that, those who know you may not realize that you are different. You will sense it. Everything around you may look the same, but you won’t relate to it the same way. “We need to benefit from the trials we have faced, because this is an era where the war intensifies. It’s intensifying in America. Watch Israel, because what is going on there is a model for the other nations. We have entered a dragon-lion war season. Without the sound coming from God’s Ekklesia—you—the dragon will rise. He’s fire-breathing and he will singe what’s happening. If you do not know your identity and do not defamiliarize yourself with your surroundings, you won’t know how to move with the Lord against this dragon. If you don’t know your authority, the Word He’s given you to war with, or the place He’s leading you to war in, you won’t be effective in this war.” (Chuck Pierce) “In that day, the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.” (Isaiah 27:1; ESV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Have you experienced a trial that you know changed you? Receive the revelation that God will use this changed you. Are you in any place of familiarity that has led to complacency in your life? Purpose to defamiliarize yourself with your surroundings. Ask the Lord to help you see your surroundings, your family, your community, and your church connections, differently. Why are you really in that line of work? Why are your children in that particular school. Look, and look again. God is putting the Church in the battle to defeat the dragon. Check yourself. Are you fully on His side? Where do you waver in your convictions? Do you understand the authority the Lord has graced you with as you have passed through various trials? The testing of your faith produces spiritual authority in you. Pray for Israel. Look at and see how Israel is in the news today. Pray, “Lord, I want to be effective in spiritual warfare with You. I am on the Lion’s side against the dragon.” A prayer you can pray: Father, life has been hard at times and I feel the trials I have been through have changed me. Sometimes I feel weary and I want my old self back. As I contemplate the changes that have come, the maturing and the wisdom, I can see that there are benefits to passing through the pain. Also, I can relate so much better to others who have suffered likewise. The devil is ruthless against humanity. You are on our side and I want to be fully on Yours. Let me really look at how familiar things around me have become. Let’s make some changes. Open my eyes to what I haven’t seen. Don’t let me be afraid to see. Open my heart to what I have tried not to feel. Defamiliarize me to my surroundings, Lord. I am in this world, but not of it. Let me not be too comfortable in it. As I watch Israel this year, show me how what they are going through is a sign to us. I want to be effective in spiritual warfare with You. I am on the Lion’s side against the dragon! I’m with You, Jesus. Amen. Today’s decree: From the trials we face comes a new identity and grace. We must walk in it to defeat the enemy in the places God has put us. Learn more about Chuck Pierce here.

God is Sending His Deliverers to the People This Year “There are things in our bloodlines that are going to get stirred up this year. These things that have been hidden from us, but not from God, are going to need to get delivered of, so they can’t affect our future. Moses was comfortable in Pharaoh’s palace, but something happened when he saw an Israelite being mistreated. Something in his bloodline rose up and he murdered the Egyptian attacker. His anger led to an action that caused him to need to run to another place. “It took 40 years for the Lord to wait for another window of opportunity. Some of you have been waiting 40 years. You’ve made a few mistakes. It doesn’t mean there won’t be another window. You are just going to need to watch carefully now for that window. We have to be circumspect in how we see our surroundings, so we can redeem the time. “The window for Moses came because the people began to cry out to God. They began to groan under the weight of their circumstances. They cried out for deliverance. There are people crying out for deliverance now. God is going to find His people to move into places where there is a crying out for help. He’s going to move His people into societal mountains—into government and into business, education, etc. There’s going to be this tremendous move. People who don’t even know the Lord yet are going to open doors and open buildings and say, ‘We want healing to be here for our people.’ Do not feel you need to be relegated to your present state of place. Be ready to go where He sends you. He needs deliverers in many places.” (Chuck Pierce) “The Lord said [to Moses], ‘I have seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey… And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” (Exodus 3:7-10; NIV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Thank the Lord for His deliverance in Your life. If you have made errors in the past that have put your life on hold, let hope arise again. He will get you back on track. Let the Lord allow you to see or hear the cries of help from those needing deliverance. Intercede for them. Pray that they will know the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Ask the Lord to set up Divine meetings with those needing the deliverance you are carrying. Say, “I want to be positioned by You, Jesus, in the place I can have the most impact. Move me anywhere You need me to be.” If you are positioned to open space for gatherings of the hurting for ministry, do it. Do you have office space, community space at an apartment complex, or room at an educational center? Ask the Lord for creative ways to reach the lost from that place. A prayer you can pray: Oh Lord, thank You for saving me and delivering me! You truly changed my life. I hardly remember the course of destruction I was on. You made a new path for me. It was the path You had always wanted me on. If I have wandered off of it at any point, thank You that You are able to get me back on it again. Let my choices by the ones You want for me. I know there are so many people out there who are wandering around with no direction. They are oppressed by the devil and they are hurting. Show me, Jesus. Let me hear their cries for help. Position me to meet the needs of those who suffer as I once did. So many need You. Move me where I can be of the most benefit to advance Your Kingdom. Connect me with others You have likewise called. Show me what resources I have at my disposal that You might require, including meeting spaces. It’s an all-hands-on-deck season. The cries of the lost are coming up before You and You will thrust Your laborers into the harvest fields to get them! Let me be one of those in Jesus’ name. Amen. Today’s decree: God is sending His people wherever there are those crying out for deliverance. Be ready to go! Learn more about Chuck Pierce here.

A Key State to Focus on This Year “I see a window over the state of California. I have a strong connection with this state. I pray for California. My daughter and her family live there. When she was moving there, she asked me if I had been one that prophesied that California would fall into the ocean. I said, ‘No, but we gave you swimming lessons in case it does.’ Ha! You just have to go where God tells you, even if hard things have been prophesied over the place. “California is the closest place to Israel in our nation. What I mean by that is that it has the same atmosphere as Israel. It has the same look as Israel. There is some sort of Divine anointing on it. It has a few problems. We all know that. But if He can save my family, He can save California. There is an open window over the state that we have to look up and see. It’s time for breakthrough in California. “California is known for its free thought. This is a year for a war over your free thought. God is saying it will be a year of great shaking in California. There will be a great shaking, but the Lord says His people will remain standing. He also says the voice of His people will be heard out of the shaking. I don’t think this is talking about an earthquake. Maybe, but that wouldn’t take much of a prophet to prophesy over a state with numerous earthquakes. I think California is going to have such a governmental shakeup that it starts setting the Church on a new course.” (Chuck Pierce) “Then Jesus shouted out again, and he released his spirit. At that moment the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, rocks split apart. The Roman officer and the other soldiers at the crucifixion were terrified by the earthquake and all that had happened. They said, ‘This man truly was the Son of God!’” (Matthew 27:50-51 and 54; ESV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: If you have judged California, ask the Lord to forgive you. He loves every single soul there. God has a purpose for California and He has moved there many times in the past. The Azusa Street revival rocked the world from there. The Jesus Movement began there. Call for another wave of awakening. Say, “God isn’t finished with California!” Pray for California’s governmental system. He has prophesied that a change is coming there. Many Believers are running for political office at every level. Can you believe with them for miracles? Pray! Declare, “California’s governmental shaking will affect the whole nation. God is going to reverse some things and start California on a new path of Glory!” Watch and pray for California this year. A prayer you can pray: God, we say there is a window opening over California. You see multitudes in need of You in that state. You see riches and resources in abundance. There are physical resources and resources in technology, creativity, farming, and many other things provided by this state. We rejoice over California. We celebrate the past moves of God there. Multitudes have been swept into the Kingdom quickly in these past moves. Their effect went out across this nation and to the nations of the earth. Do it again, God. We especially pray for the government. Leaders have brought darkness and confusion into the state. We ask You to turn the prosperity of California around again. Turn their morality around. Turn many hearts to You, Jesus. We pray for the many Christians running for political office there, who hope to effect these changes. Open doors for them. Bring funding to them. Bring a political shakeup that ushers these into office. We believe California’s governmental shaking will affect the whole nation. You are going to reverse some things and start California on a new path of Glory! We will commit to pray for this key state as You lead us to throughout this year in Jesus’ name. Amen. Today’s decree: There will be a government shakeup in California that will affect the Church across America! Learn more about Chuck Pierce here.

Protection Over the Nation President Trump has specifically said that he knows the Lord placed him in the position he’s in. He is there for such a time as this. We all know this nation impacts the world. “There are plots against him that are not even hidden right now,” Paula White Cain said on the One Voice Prayer Movement Call yesterday. We proclaim, “Jesus is Lord over our nation, over President Trump, over our cities, churches, communities, and families.” Let’s pray the Lord’s protection over all of these things in accordance with Psalm 91. Those that founded the nation would never have believed this nation would ever be so divided. There are those in government and media who are very upset that  Iran’s terrorist General Soleimani was killed by U.S. Forces. It had been discovered that he was planning to inflict great harm on Americans in the Middle East. President Trump said he authorized attacks that removed Soleimani in order to prevent war in the region. Arab News wrote that this was a very positive action for the people of the Middle East. American news sources made it look like the president had just purposefully incited war in Iraq. There were, in fact, two retaliatory attacks by Iran on U. S. bases in Iraq yesterday. We must not fear, but look at the bigger picture and jump into the gap and intercede. Praying Ekklesia, we are taking ground against America’s enemies, however, we are taking it through the power of prayer. We are in a sensitive and critical time in history. We need God like never before. Ultimately, we are asking God for mercy and a third Great Awakening, not a third World War. Join us in believing for God’s purposes to continue until He has accomplished everything He desires to accomplish in and through this nation over the next few years. “The king rejoices in your strength, Lord. How great is his joy in the victories you give! For the king trusts in the Lord; through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken. Your hand will lay hold on all your enemies; your right hand will seize your foes. Be exalted in your strength, Lord; we will sing and praise Your might.” (Psalm 21:1, 7-8 & 13; NIV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Pray for the protective hand of God over America, our president and other government leaders, and our soldiers on the battlefield. Pray for the innocent ones in America and worldwide. Pray that the president would walk in discernment, and that the Lord would bring those around him that are filled with His wisdom, discernment, and revelation. Call for the raising up of a governmental prayer movement that will intercede into the current volatile situation in Iran and Iraq. Ask the Lord for His children to walk in greater unity, to love one another, and purposefully remove the barriers that separate us. Intercede passionately for revival and awakening in America. A prayer you can pray: Father, we pray Psalm 85:4-7, “Restore us again, O God of our salvation. Put aside your anger against us once more. Will You be angry with us always? Will You prolong Your wrath to all generations? Won’t You revive us again, so Your people can rejoice in You? Show us Your unfailing love, O Lord, and grant us Your salvation.” You revive us again out of our covenant mercies. They are new every morning. There is a move of the Holy Spirit to revive hearts and restore relationship with You because of Your mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgement. The current move to abort a move of God will come to nothing. Bring us a historic revival. Give us a great awakening. We have not just crossed a threshold into a new day, a new decade, but into the beginning of a great harvest—a third great awakening. We ask You to set a protective atmosphere to cover this nation, over all of our people, as we pray in unity. We cannot have revival and awakening unless You hold back the hand of the enemy. Manifest our testimony that You are a God that cares—about the lost and about Your Church. We align ourselves with your nature, your Glory. Your presence is filled with mercy and goodness. When the Spirit comes with power and conviction, we say, “Our nation will receive You.” We ask for a restraint against the Prince of Persia, who rules over Iran and Iraq. We pray over the Middle East, where Soleimani would have caused great destruction. We thank you for the courageous decisions made by President Trump and his advisers. The release of your Spirit will bring freedom and protection against that ancient demonic spirit that attempts to rule over the Middle East. It is not Your will for there to be another world war at this time. There will not be a WWIII! Give our military leaders eagle eyes to see what the enemy is up to. We thank You for Your intervention to protect our troops in the Middle East. We call upon You, Lord of the nations, to take complete control. You want to redeem. We remember the prayers of Your people across the generations—Esther, Daniel, and others—that have prayed for freedom for Your people. We agree with those prayers today. Raise up a mighty governmental praying army, praying passionately in unity. May we see Your purposes established in the earth in this hour in Jesus’ Name. Amen. Today’s decree: In His mercy, the Lord will answer our prayers and protect us!

National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month REMINDER: ONE VOICE PRAYER CALL TODAY AT NOON EASTERN TIME!! Call Instructions—One Voice Prayer Movement Tuesday, January 7, 2020, 12:00 P.M. EST (Adjust for your time zone) 1. Dial 712-775-7430, with no code necessary. 2. If first line is full, dial 712-775-7431; enter code 2452# 3. To join the call via webcast: visit the One Voice Prayer Movement website and follow the instructions. https://onevoiceprayermovement.com/ TODAY’S GH15 POST: We applaud President Donald J. Trump who has made the following declaration on December 31, 2019 for the month of January 2020. You can read the entire proclamation here. This is an excerpted version: “Human trafficking erodes personal dignity and destroys the moral fabric of society. It is an affront to humanity that tragically reaches all parts of the world, including communities across our Nation. Each day, in cities, suburbs, rural areas, and tribal lands, people of every age, gender, race, religion, and nationality are devastated by this grave offense. During National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, we reaffirm our unwavering commitment to eradicate this horrific injustice. “Human trafficking is often a hidden crime that knows no boundaries. By some estimates, as many as 24.9 million people ‑- adults and children — are trapped in a form of modern slavery around the world, including in the United States. Human traffickers exploit others through forced labor or commercial sex, and traffickers profit from their victims’ horrific suffering. The evil of human trafficking must be defeated. We remain relentless in our resolve to bring perpetrators to justice, to protect survivors and help them heal, and to prevent further victimization and destruction of innocent lives. “My Administration is committed to using every available resource, strengthening strategic partnerships, collaborating with State, local, and tribal entities, and by introducing innovative anti-trafficking strategies to bring the full force of the United States Government to help end this barbaric practice once and for all. In January 2019, I was proud to sign both the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, reaffirming our commitment to preventing trafficking in all forms. “This month, we renew our resolve to redouble our efforts to deliver justice to all who contribute to the cruelty of human trafficking, and we will tenaciously pursue the promise of freedom for all victims of this terrible crime. NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 2020 as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, culminating in the annual observation of National Freedom Day on February 1, 2020. I call upon industry associations, law enforcement, private businesses, faith-based and other organizations of civil society, schools, families, and all Americans to recognize our vital roles in ending all forms of modern slavery and to observe this month with appropriate programs and activities aimed at ending and preventing all forms of human trafficking.” (President Donald J. Trump) “The Sovereign Lord has filled me with his Spirit. He has chosen me and sent me to bring good news to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, to announce release to captives and freedom to those in prison.” (Isaiah 61:1; GNT) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Thank the Lord that President Trump has engaged our national government in the war against human trafficking in America. Our nation will additionally work to end it globally. Pray that our government entities will develop wise strategies to deal with this. Pray for better security at our borders. This is one way to curtail the tide of trafficked people in from other nations. Intercede for the victims of human trafficking on U. S. soil. They may be sexually exploited or exploited as cheap labor. This must stop! Decree that those who are trafficking people in your community will be exposed, arrested, tried and convicted. Declare their victims will go free! Intercede for organizations that work to assist the victims. Consider supporting them in some way, if you can. Here and here are some. A prayer you can pray: Lord, I am so grateful that President Donald J. Trump has reaffirmed the stand he took last year to end human trafficking in America. Those that have been captured and exploited by others must be set free. Grace our nation to be the leader in ending this travesty worldwide, Lord. Give our government leaders and agencies wise ways to help stop this nationally and internationally. Start with the protection of our borders, so traffickers will find it impossible to bring their prey to our soil. Place this issue on the hearts of Believers across the nation. We must all be on the lookout in our communities for those who use other people sexually or in labor for selfish financial gain. We decree that those trafficking in our cities will be exposed, found out, arrested, tried and convicted. There will not be any way for them to hide or get away. Raise up the educators to help train police departments and other emergency responders to recognize signs of trafficking. We weep for those who have lost so much of their lives to this injustice. Give them justice. Bring those to them who can provide healing. Cause Isaiah 61:1 to be our reality and let us help the captives to go free, physically, emotionally and spiritually. We say, “Whom the Son sets free is free indeed! End this in America, Jesus!” Amen. Today’s decree: We will no longer tolerate human trafficking in the United States of America! We are going to see it end.