In my near-death weeks over this last season, one of the attitudes of the heart that became most excruciating was to feel the Lord’s heart re: the spirit of accusation, animosity and mockery. As I wrote in my raw update: “This is the breath of hell.”

I believe this is what Job was describing when he also drew close to death in Job 17: “My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, the grave is ready for me. Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?” (Job 17:1-2)

The closer Job drew to death, the more he could feel the heat of the Lord’s wrath against mockery, denigration, ridicule and scorn.

Both the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah identify the spirit of mockery among the people of God who are being judged – and the judgment against them was quite severe.

“Now therefore, do not be mockers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts, a destruction determined even upon the whole earth.” (Isaiah 28:22)

Isaiah observes that when we allow mockery to become a part of our way of interacting with our world, “our bonds will be made strong”; meaning, the spirit of mockery will become a stronghold in our life; in our fellowship; and in our culture.

If I may be so candid: Mockery has become a stronghold in our American evangelical culture. From simple bumperstickers that read: “Let’s Go Brandon!” to endless memes and social media posts that ridicule, jeer and denigrate our political, theological and ideological opponents – our family loves to laugh at our enemy’s expense. In fact, the better we are at calling our foes “fools”, the more applause we give and receive unto ourselves. We love to “drop the mic” on our enemies.

This is no less true for those who mock and deride our former President. Mockery transcends political division. Our whole culture is rife with the spirit. It’s not a conservative vs, liberal issue, it’s a righteousness vs. unrighteousness issue; a crucified or uncrucified issue; an “I’m with Jesus” or “I’m not with Jesus” issue.

Isaiah also observes, mockery is an especially dangerous dynamic to harbor in our soul in the hour when the whole earth is under the threat of Divine destruction. Beloved, we’re living in such an hour.

Our Lord calls this attitude in our heart, “murder”; and strongly warns us that it will be punished with “hell fire”.

Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ … ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire. (Matthew 5:22)

What this means is when political pundits, evangelical leaders, pastors, prophets laugh at, ingloriously condemn, belittle, sneer at, ridicule, make fun of, and foment half-truths and innuendos and conspiracies about our ideological disputants, (as shown in the few examples below) according to our Savior, we’re in danger of hell fire.

Beloved, let there be no doubt. In (Matthew 7:23) Jesus paints the picture of meeting many “righteous” individuals who can recite impressive Kingdom accomplishments. It is precisely their disposition to mock, curse and not forgive their enemies – all the things that Jesus has just covered in His sermon – that He, THE LAW-GIVER HIMSELF, deems as “lawlessness”.

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS!’ “Therefore… everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.” (Matthew 7:21-24, 26-27)

The prophet Jeremiah learned the wisdom of “doing the will of the Father” and avoiding the spirit of mockery – even at the cost of his own reputation and social comfort.

“I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone because of Your hand, for You have filled me with indignation.” (Jeremiah 15:17)

Jeremiah indicates that the Lord Himself filled Jeremiah’s soul with a loathing “indignation” for the spirit of mockery – and it cost him a seat at the table of influencers in Judah. He refused to engage in the mutual murder that had become rampant among the advisors. He “sat alone”; apparently disconnected from the levers of power that were available to him at the time. He wasn’t asked to give the plenary address at the denominational conferences; he was not perceived as one who had political clout, or rhetorical capital. He was “alone”.

Funny. The man who was alone is the man whose writings have endured. None of the provocateurs, the firebrands, the sages or the rabble-rousers of Jeremiah’s day are even remembered today, except through the journals of the man who refused to be applauded in the assembly of the mockers.

In short, Jeremiah learned the eternal value of being a man who brought his arguments before God in intercession, weeping and dialogue. It was in this forum (the tent of meeting with the Lord) that Jeremiah found efficacious and eternal solutions to the problems of his day.

When faced with the many-headed temptation to mock, deride and murder our adversaries, I am praying for grace to be like Jeremiah.

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JSB • March, 2022

COMMANDS for DELIVERANCE, PRAYERS for HEALING, and DECLARATIONS of PROTECTION

I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. (Psalm 34:1)

FORGIVENESS

If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)

There are five things we want to do with our sin and unrighteous ways. They all begin with the letter R:
1. We ask the Holy Spirit to help us RECOGNIZE our own sin and unrighteous thinking.
2. We REPENT of all sin and unrighteousness
3. We RENOUNCE any hold that specific sins and unrighteous thinking have upon our lives.
4. We RECEIVE the Father’s forgiveness on the basis of what Jesus has accomplished upon the cross.
5. We allow Him to fill us with His RIGHTEOUSNESS; the order of His government within our lives: humility, purity, love, healing, kindness, joy, faith, peacemaking, etc.

A. Thank You Holy Spirit for helping me RECOGNIZE every wicked way in me

B. Father, I REPENT of __________ and RENOUNCE  __________.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)

C. Thank You for this great promise, Father. I RECEIVE Your forgiveness from these sins through the shed blood of Your Son, Jesus on the cross!

D. Father cleanse me from all unrighteousness. Fill me instead with the RIGHTEOUS order of Your Son! Thank You Father.

DECLARATIONS of VICTORY

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy. (Psalm 107:2)

A. I make the sign of the cross upon my life. I declare that I will “deny (the rule of) self” and live “crucified in Christ” under His victory and His leadership.

I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I but it is Christ Who lives within me, and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God Who loved me and gave Himself up for me. (Galatians 2:20)

B. By the grace of God I declare that THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST covers my life.

C. O HOLY SPIRIT, fill my life and consume me with the fire of Your indwelling Presence.

D. Holy Spirit, I “put on” (Ephesians 6:11-18) the SPIRITUAL ARMOR.

E. Father, thank You for assigning MIGHTY WARRING ANGELS to encamp around me (Psalm 34:7).

COMMANDS

A. By the authority of the blood of Jesus of Nazareth I cancel every curse, hex, incantation, and/or spell that has come against me. Furthermore, I command every demon connected with any of these curses to be silent and to immediately present yourself to Jesus of Nazareth for judgment. I decree that all curses against me to be canceled and abandoned forever, by the authority of the blood of Jesus Christ.

B. By the authority of the blood of Jesus of Nazareth I command every demon of affliction, disease, death, shame, deceit, unrighteousness, animosity, nightmares, fear, panic, torment and/or sleeplessness to be silent, to separate yourself from me and immediately present yourself to Jesus of Nazareth for judgment.

C. Heavenly Father, I FORGIVE EVERY PERSON who has spoken curses against me. And I ask that You would bless them with the gift of the fear of the Lord and repentance. I also ask that they would be brought into a saving covenant relationship with Your Son, Jesus. 

PRAYERS FOR THE LORD’S PRESENCE, HEALING AND PROVISION

We do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses… Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (Hebrews 4:15-16)

A. Father, thank You for Your increased Presence and glory within me.

B. I also thank You for Your healing light that is perpetually healing me.

I command all viruses, infections, toxins, cancer cells and ________ to immediately be removed from me by the authority of the blood of Jesus.

C. Father, renew me and strengthen me with Your righteous order and health. Thank You Father that You’ve made all this available at the expense of Your own Son.

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32)

D. By virtue of my covenant with Your Son, Christ Jesus, I say “yes” and “Amen” to Your strategic purpose for my life. I also say “yes” to all of the promises that You’ve intended for me; including physical healing, the fruit of the Spirit, a long and abundant life that declares Your excellent works, friendship with the Bridegroom, first-commandment love for You, incarnational love for others, and significant supernatural power, all for the increase of Your glory!

My God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory through Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19)

March, 2022

A. This flag flies as an alarming icon of the carnal spirit of defiance that has astoundingly grown in popularity among praying communities and evangelical churches over the last decade.

B. This spirit has prospered nearly unchecked within the household of God; promoting unaccountable pride, self-determination, and crosslessness within millions in the body of Christ.

C. The flag itself was designed by William Gadsden (a general in the Continental army from South Carolina) and pictures a timber-rattlesnake with 13 rattles; representing the 13 colonies who refused to have their manifest destiny fettered by another.

D. Benjamin Franklin notably advocated the snake as the symbol of the American colonies saying, “the rattlesnake never backed down when provoked” which captured “the temper and conduct of America.”

E. The flag also captured the spirit of why so many 18c Christ-followers (many who emerged from the first great awakening) opposed armed revolution against the King of England…

F. Of all people, people of the Book ought to understand why it’s probably never a great idea to go to war under the banner of snake…

G. In every way imaginable waving this flag enthrones a “spirit of rebellion” – all of which any follower of the One Who crushes the head of the evil one (Romans 16:20) should see with abundant clarity.

H. In 1981 British Evangelical leader, Derek Prince observed: “At the very foundation of America is a spirit of rebellion which is the spirit of witchcraft. Unless this reality is dealt with, 20 years from now, you won’t believe how acceptable witchcraft will be in your nation.”

I. The greatest impediment to revival in our land is not a humanist President, the curse of LGBTQ, or a congress that votes to murder children in the womb all the way to term. The greatest impediment to revival in our land right now is a spirit of open, nationalist rebellion and insurrection that shakes its fist at the judgments of the Lord and dominates the hearts and minds of gospel leaders, ministries and churches in prayer rallies, sermons, books and conferences.

J. This spirit is prospering in the way we’ve challenged COVID, an election, the racial pain of blacks and native Americans, and real and perceived restrictions imposed upon the Church.

K. Not only is this spirit defrauding the people of God and America from the revival that the Lord urgently wants to bring to us, it is also tragically paving the way for millions to hail of a man of ultimate rebellion and lawlessness.

L. Until we recognize, repent of, rebuke this poisonous spirit and replace it with the pure standard of the cross of Christ, we (the Church in America) will experience no sweeping Presence of the Lord in our nation.

M. The two ways are mutually exclusive. We can either continue to wave the banner of “self-rule” or we can submit ourselves to the rule of the One Who is leveling every mountain and making every crooked way straight.

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JSB • March, 2022

NOTE: The Lord led our little House of Prayer into 180 days of intensive “Seeking His Face” in January of 2020. On March 7, 2020 we wrote the following – only days before the Lord put 195 nations on the earth in lock-down-mode. Ultimately, our story, the plague of COVID and the other subsequent tumultuous events that have shaken the church over the last 24 months was made into our book “Seek My Face: A Guide to Praying Through the Judgments of the Lord”.

We’d be happy to send you a free PDF of the manuscript, or the print edition. Email us here: xaris4u@yahoo.com

He’s SO gracious, beloved. He’s still calling us to respond to His alarm – but the hour IS turning… You can feel it, can’t you???

MARCH 7, 2020
Kathy, myself and our friends connected w All Nations HOPSW are currently on our 69th day of 180 days of #SEEKMYFACE2020. “Seek My face” (Psalm 27:8) is the Lord’s exhortation to those who are living in a “time of trouble” (Psalm 27:5).

We’re also on day 6 of a 40-day fast. Some have assessed that this 40-day fast is one of the largest, most internationally diverse and focused fasts called in the Church’s 2000 year history. That doesn’t make it better. It’s just sobering to consider that this many believers are currently seeing the need to cry out in our poverty and hunger for the Lord’s sovereign intervention in our world, and our nation.

Typically, Kathy and I spend 5 to 6 hours each day praying and exalting Jesus here at our All Nations Prayer Room in the mountains of Arizona. For the 180 days (until June 30, 2020) we have added 5 additional hours of prayer to our weekly schedule. In the midst of the 40-day fast, we are now adding 7 more hours of private prayer!

I’ve seen enough life to know that we are indeed in a “time of trouble”, unlike anything our nation and Church has faced in my lifetime. I’m also old enough to think in a few years I’ll be standing before the Lord, and in that moment I will have wanted to respond to His exhortation to “seek His face” for myself, my family, and my nation, with a wholehearted spirit.

Occasionally over these days of consecration, we’ve experienced times of ecstatic exhilaration in the Lord (Halleluia! Last Tuesday evening with a dozen+ in our little prayer room, was one of those evenings…) But mostly, the hours of prayer, beholding, worshipping, listening, journaling and travailing are arduous for my flesh. They are very bland, weak and unexceptional.

One of the unique joys of engaging in this level of intense prayer, is doing it with my beautiful wife. The depth of “oneness” that we share in prayer is a source of uber-strength like nothing else in my life, marriage and ministry. To share words of revelation, dreams, warfare and reward in ministry TOGETHER is… well, it just doesn’t get any better than that.

For the last two weeks we’ve been experiencing some incredible warfare on many levels. As we’ve been “inquiring” about the nature of this marked increase of spiritual contention we have both come to the conclusion that it relates to two things that the Lord has called us to soberly and intentionally pray for in our own lives, and in our region/nation:

1. Letting the Holy Spirit bring down the (Jonah 2:8) idols on the high-places in our heart. The high places being the places that our flesh has no capacity to reach on its own. Our flesh normally doesn’t even know the idols are there; like the stuff on the top shelf in your closet. We just can’t see it. We need the Lord’s gracious insight to reach up and show us what’s rotting in the closet of our hearts. This is exruciatingly counter-intuitive work – listening in the spirit to the Spirit, instead of taking cues from our flesh in our flesh.

2. The second issue the Lord is calling us to intercede for is intimately connected with the first. He’s giving us greater sobriety about the nature of His coming presence in our nation. It will, as Joel describes, be “great AND terrible”. (Joel 2:11) The Lord’s wind will uproot institutions AND issues. But He will do so primarily on account of crises in the individual heart, rather than discrepancies over ideological arguments. What do I mean by this? This means the Lord is deeply invested in establishing His Bride in the authentic integrity of her heart, not merely measuring her according to the “correctness” of her (political, social, economic, doctrinal etc.) convictions.

“Rend your hearts and not your garments.” (Joel 2:13)

Beloved, we (the evangelical, Bible-professing, Spirit-filled, praying believers) are massively unprepared for the level of uprooting in our hearts that’s about to take place.

I bless you with the Lord’s close, intimate grace in this hour. He is ready to give His people insight as we inquire, behold Him, and cultivate ears that listen beyond our flesh (and all the noise in our culture), into His Spirit.

Prepare His Bride, Holy Spirit!

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“Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill brought low; the crooked places shall be made straight and the rough places smooth; the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

(Isaiah 40:3-5)

Right now two great divergent “ways” are being plowed in the souls of billions on planet earth. Event after world event, one of two ways are being reenforced in our hearts. Just as Jesus told us: One is the way of mass destruction. The other is the massively less popular way unto salvation. But don’t be fooled. The distinction between the two ways is not (indeed, cannot be) perceived in the flesh. It can only be discerned in dialogue with the Holy Spirit. (The good news is, the Holy Spirit has the love, zeal and the capacity to be having this conversation with 7.4 billion of us at the same time…)

He’s SO uniquely qualified to run this planet!

If your heart is steeped in socio-political idolatry you won’t see the true lines of division. You’ll be greatly tempted to see human circumstances according to the human lenses of socio-political division. You’ll forever be reacting to polarizing human circumstances – super-charged with suspicion, animosity, pretense, lust, self-justification and intolerance. 

This is an intended strategy of the enemy. He and the antiChrist at the end of this “way” are counting on billions (including religious and secularists) to see and invest themselves heavily in this two-dimensional perspective. One of his greatest “fears” is that people will read the Word of God and discover that he (not unlike the Pharisees and the sinners; the Romans and the zealots; etc.) is playing both sides. 

Political conservatism and political liberalism (like legalism and licentiousness) are BOTH in his pocket. BOTH relying entirely upon the power of collective humanism. BOTH are reacting to world events as if they are human-caused at their root. BOTH are lobbying for human-level solutions. BOTH sides have prophets and pundits and pastors and proclaimers of the way. But their vision and their authority is stunted – limited to earth-bound solutions. They presume the enemy lies in “the other camp” and can be overcome by superior wisdom, knowledge, insight, narratives, rhetoric and numbers. 

Here’s the key to the deception; both of the camps CAN be overcome by superior wisdom, knowledge, insight etc. because that’s what BOTH are built on. That’s all the enemy has to work with. Lies and “truth”; fear and confidence (pride); hatred and “love”; vows and “principle” (the law)… and as long as the enemy can keep us convinced that the enemy lies in the “other” camp he’ll keep us steeped in his spirit, playing his game under his rules.

NOTE: This is actually a key reason why so many of “our” household “prophets” are being left naked event after event. Their perception is two-dimensional. Even though they create elaborate and fantasmic superstructures and storylines to make it appear that their cues are coming from another realm – their failure (on nine levels) exposes the human (and in some cases, even demonic) earth-bound substance of their words.

It requires faith in the Word of God to see things any differently. But once the Holy Spirit reveals the true distinction to you you’ll be ruined to see world events from any other perspective. 

It takes faith in the Word of God to see that God is higher, deeper and in much more control of this world than either of the narratives let on. It takes faith in the Word of God to see that He is the Prime Mover. Plagues, wars, civil-strife and economics are pawns being moved on and off the Divine chess-board. It takes faith in the Word of God to stop responding to the events themselves and to begin the hard diligent work of aligning our hearts to the Prime Mover Himself. 

He’s on the move! Isaiah 40:3-5 is underneath, above and within everything that we see being “played out” on the human stage right now. He’s coming!

Unless we see THIS and hold THIS as THE central reality at work in our world, we will (along with the rest of the world) be deluded by the spectacular, shiney events trending in our newsfeeds – and lay down the very things that make for true, deep and everlasting victory; “things” and “dynamics” that Jesus adamantly urged His disciples to hold onto everyday – especially in the minutes before His arrival; “things” and “dynamics” like
A. “our cross”, 
B. “fear of the Lord”, 
C. “meekness”, 
D. “forgiveness”, 
E. “prayer”, 
F. “dialogue with the Spirit”, 
G. “God-reliance”, and 
H. “love” for God AND everyone (not our thin human-powered definition of love)
I. “zeal for His manifest presence” (There’s more…)

You want to know if you’re responding to current events in a manner that would please the Father? 
You want to know that you’re cultivating a life of gold and not wood, hay and stubble? 
You want to know that your faith is built on substance and not fantasy?

Through each of the events being played out on the world-stage in this hour ask yourself – ask your sisters and brothers – ask your prayer group: Are we growing in these “things” and “dynamics”? THEN we will know we are engaging our world according to the pattern of the Spirit and not the flesh. More importantly: THEN we will know that we ARE being prepared to meet the King our world desperately needs Face to face.

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JSB • February 25, 2022

In December of 2020 our little House of Prayer finished a year of “Seeking the Lord’s Face” – more than 3500 hours of corporate prayer. At the same time, for the first time in my life, I contracted pneumonia. As the cough persisted I went to see our family doctor. She was not certain, but from the MRI and X-rays she recommended I see a pulmonologist. In January (2021) the pulmonologist diagnosed me with lung cancer. We lived with that pronouncement 2 months. A second pulmonologist, a specialist in infectious diseases saw my report in March and re-diagnosed me. I didn’t have cancer. I had a rare respiratory disease that presents itself like cancer but is peculiar to the Phoenix area (Arizona accounts for 85% of all cases in the U.S.). I was put on a regimen of an anti-fungal medication and was pronounced cured in August. Bizarre.

This past summer (2021) we released the book about our 2020 prayer-journey with the Lord entitled “Seek My Face”. Our House of Prayer also began a 3-month campaign of praying through the book of Jeremiah.

In October I began to feel a pain in my lower abdomen. (In 1991 I was delivered from a demonic curse that had gained access to my person as I did research on evangelizing people from a unique form of the occult. After two years of buffeting, the result was a deliverance session with C. Peter Wagner’s wife, Doris Wagner, and then an emergency appendectomy and the removal of 8 inches of my small intestine 7 days later.) Until this past fall, I had not felt pain in that region of my body for 30 years.

On November 1 (my birthday) my doctor informed me that my PSA was extremely high. (It had almost doubled in 12 months.) I went to the urologist for a biopsy. On December 8 (my father’s birthday) Kathy and I learned that cancer had infected 15% of my prostate. Our urologist recommended that my prostate be removed. (I didn’t know that was even possible…) The prognosis (long life) for success with this type of procedure is very good – 95%. We were able to schedule the surgery for January 5.

During these two months the Lord graciously gave us a word about what He was promising through this season. You can find that word here: “Fear On Every Side“. Through long nights and tedious days, we clung to these words like “life-breath”.

We also enlisted a number of close, believing friends who lovingly prayed and walked with us through the the difficult days of questions, fears, tension, promises and physical weakness. These faithful intercessors helped us tremendously, and helped us identify patterns of attack, fear and lies.

In December our oldest son underwent a very complicated foot reconstruction surgery. And our daughter in Washington D.C. began to have a series of mysterious respiratory and heart episodes that landed her in the emergency room on three occasions. Four of our children and grandchildren contracted COVID.

Furthermore, between November and January our House of Prayer was hit with three more assaults. A local leader illegally attempted to wrest us from our mortgage financing; a third-party non-profit group sought to deceive us re: a contractual insurance agreement; and a hand-full of friends deceitfully engaged in a campaign to condemn our involvement with the House of Prayer in Kansas City – just days before my surgery!

Add to this string of events: Guests in our housing complex being assaulted with nightmares and panic attacks. My experiencing severe complications from the January 5 surgery, twice being rushed to the Emergency room; once air-evacuated to a hospital in Phoenix. Our surgeon (who was excellent) twice failing to show up to give us the pathology report. And my own terror: my wife Kathy had already watched her previous husband die while she was present. And my two daughters had already lost one parent – their mother – fifteen years ago. How could I not feel the angst of Kathy, Caris and Christi having to endure more deep pain? The trepidation in me too often felt like a blanket of terror.

By mid-January the evidence was clear: our household was under intense assault from the enemy. Through a process of daily praying, observing, commanding and declaring scripture we deduced that we were being cursed by both occult and demonic entities. Today, when friends ask me about this last season I bluntly tell them: “The Lord has delivered us from a spirit of cancer and and spirit of affliction.” I now know too much – and the evidence has only grown stronger the more we intentionally respond to the Lord and engage in spiritual warfare through these prayers, commands and scriptures.

Note: A significant part of the learning curve has been my own discovery of how I (Jon) left myself, my family and our household open to the power of the curse – especially as I have not dealt with my personal enmity with others – particularly in the body of Christ. Confessing my sin and reaching out with forgiveness and repentance has been key to being released from the bonds of the curse. Bless and do not curse… (Romans 12:14) Letting the Holy Spirit examine my heart for “any wicked way in me” (Psalm 139:24) so that I can both receive and give forgiveness is now an integral part of my daily prayer at All Nations.

During the month of January, on 12 distinct occasions the Lord also graciously saturated me with His brilliant healing light. It was warm, bright and palpable. I’ve tried. I cannot make it come upon me by my own will. Although I thank Him for it daily, it is His to sovereignly release over me. This sovereignty has actually become a wonderful kiss of His close, healing Presence.

Other forms of great consolation during this season included several prophetic words that praying friends shared with us. I can’t describe how much these words, in conjunction with the Words of the Lord Himself, are yet sustaining Kathy and I. Here are three examples:

Jon & Kathy, I was praying for you two, your house of prayer, and the churches in your surrounding area, last week. This is what I heard the Lord say “Don’t be dismayed, I’m sending warm rays, They’ll come in like waves. The door I am opening is the light of my countenance. No one can stop Me.  It’s already in motion… Praying you would all be strengthened in the Lord with much patience and faith.  Much love, JM

God doesn’t want to make life easier, but to make us more.  This is good news.  We don’t need life to be less challenging if God is our strength more and more. This is the defeat He desires for His enemy: to hear our praise, confident of the victory, before anything has changed.  To see our uncertainty washed away in the certainty of His word, His character, and His power. Over and over I am hearing “now is the time” or “the time has come” or “the time is now.” I believe the season is shifting and this news is right on time.  Watching for a season of advance and rest… Overflow in to the purpose of God.  Hebrews 4.  I believe we will see more accomplished in the rest of God than in all our seasons of striving combined. Praying for a great overflow of His grace to carry you guys through this the end of this battle and into what is next. TS

Grace, grace, grace to every mountain of opposition and obliteration to every lie of the enemy.  You are already victors as you cling to Jesus and surrender in trust to the the Trustworthy One! We bless what the Lord is teaching you through this season. We look forward to it! We continue to pray, stand and bless you Jon and Kathy. We are one with you and are honored to labor and love with you. With love and prayers!  D and MB

On January 20 Kathy heard the word “Forward“ from the Holy Spirit as she was praying through Hosea 6. The Lord was encouraging her that the most difficult portion of this season lay behind us and it was time for us to press forward in warfare and the increase of our assignment in the House of Prayer.
Come, let’s return to the Lord. For He has , but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us. He will revive us after two days; He will raise us up on the third day, that we may live before Him. So let’s learn, let’s press on to know the Lord. His appearance is as sure as the dawn; and He will come to us like the rain, as the spring rain waters the earth. (Hosea 6:1-3)

As the Lord trained us in this spiritual combat we also experienced great victories: I, personally have recently felt a sudden lifting (like overnight) of inexplicable nerve pain that was so persistent I loathed having to go to sleep at night. Nearly all stomach and groin pain associated with the surgery has evaporated. The abdomen pain that I felt from the 1991 affliction has completely disappeared. In addition to this, All Nations has experienced a significant increase in financial giving over the past 3 months (including several Cyrus supporters); new relationships of trust and partnership among local church leaders have developed; Kathy and I feel all the more deeply honored, clear and zealous about the unique assignment the Lord has entrusted to us for this hour.

Jesus is faithfully teaching us how to close doors, fight for our lives, our family, our household and our assignment. What are the lessons the Lord is strengthening us with during this season? I’m sure these will evolve in the weeks ahead but right now, here are five:

1. As we give ourselves to the Lord’s purposes in this hour expect that the enemy will mount a counter-assault against you, your family and your assignment. Take this seriously. Also take seriously the fact that the Lord Himself intends to train you and strengthen you through these assaults. “The devil is always the Lord’s devil.” (Martin Luther)
2. Learn the power of declaring scripture. Fill your mind and heart with the certain Word of God and declare it over yourself, your family and your work of ministry.
3. Live in love and peace with one another. As much as we are able, it is critically and integrally vital that we pay attention to the ways that we allow the power of the curse to reside within us – either through our critical, accusatory words aimed at others, or allowing unforgiveness toward others to take shelter in our hearts. Unresolved animosity is the breath of hell.
4. Aim at the Lord’s glory. Focus on the increase of the Lord’s manifest Presence in your life, family and assignment. This requires great faith to press through all the anxiety and fear that weighs so heavily upon us in our affliction. The truth is, when the Mighty One of Jacob is Present so is the “ark of His strength” AND all the solutions to our woes.
5. Let the Holy Spirit make you a fully-empowered disciple of Jesus Christ, filled with all the commission and authority that the New Testament indicates we should prioritize and walk in: Heal the sick. Convict sinners with His Words of life. Cast out demons. Prophesy. Pray for His tangible Presence. Be His friend in this world.

On Monday, February 14, fifteen years to the day that we learned that my late wife had inoperable stomach cancer, I was praying in the Prayer Room and I heard the Lord telling me, “I’m about to rewrite your family story. I’m about to disconnect you and your family from the curse that’s afflicting you, and establish the blessing of My promise within you and your children.” His Words felt like the bright healing light that He had been showering over me. This time His Words were washing me of fear and infusing me with faith. The next day we finally received the pathology report from our local urologist: “no cancer was detected outside of the prostate”. Halleluia for the faithful compassion of the Father.

(I) drew near to the gates of death. Then (I) cried out to the Lord in (my) trouble, and He saved (me) out of (my) distresses. He sent His Word and He healed (me), and delivered (me) from (my) destructions. Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! (Psalm 107:18-21)

This is the final prayer that we now pray daily over our lives and our work at All Nations:
Father, thank You that You are leading me, my family and this house forward with the increased manifestation of Your glorious Presence (Exodus 40:34-38). I also thank You for Your healing light that is perpetually healing us of all disease and unrighteousness. Thank You Father that You’ve made all this available at the expense of Your own Son. My house and I say “yes” to Your assignment for us to live as a “House of Prayer”, a “house of healing hope and deliverance” and a “house of Your Presence” in this hour, unto the preparation of the Bride and the increase of Your glory! We love You, Father! 

The Father’s gathering glory to each of you friends. Though it brings with it strong resistance from the enemy, the strength that our Lord wants to exhibit toward us is vastly greater still.

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Jon and Kathy Boegl • February 2022