Hello loved ones!
I come to you with a very heavy heart tonight...a burden....
I typically make it my mission to avoid the news... especially in the last several years... Just so much negative info...But, here lately I can't escape it... and am finding that the news finds me more and more... and each time my heart is so full of hurt for God's people...it becomes so much...not too much... just sooo much... So, I want to share my heart right now with you loving intercessors...
Having recently gone through our own tornada event...and it being so fresh in my mind...As every where I look I see reminders~ not of what once was, but what is... And what is, is God's grace and mercy! So, with my own reminders... I have not watched the news regarding the Joplin tornadoes...but my heart has been so burdened for them... Tonight my husband and I were eating out and he (the avid news watcher) begins to tell me the stories that he has read online... the news clips he has seen on TV.... and my heart just fills with hurt....unexplained unimaginable hurt for this town...
My town was blessed, we had massive destruction but God spared all of our lives.... We are rebuilding our school bigger and better for God's glory... we are rebuilding our town bigger and better for God's glory...we ALL know how blessed we were on April 27, 2011! Every fallen tree...every new roof...every ray of sun that comes streaming through my kitchen windows( that was once blocked by trees) is a reminder of God's amazing grace and mercy!!
At the end of March I received these two prophetic words in a vision:
March 25th: Dark Days are Ahead
First vision:
"Then all of a sudden the wind started blowing and Jesus looked up to the sky... I looked and saw a dark storm coming in rolling across the land.... Jesus said in a very seriously but yet tender tone, "Dark days are ahead!" then he looked at me and immediately I was drawn into his eyes...I could see his expression and concern so clearly and he said in the most assuring tone, "I don't want you to be afraid! I am with you!"
Second vision:
"Jesus, I want to ask you about the dark days that are coming... What were you referring to...? "Dark days are coming to America~but I don't want you to worry about that!" How do I prepare? "You prepare by keeping your eyes on me."
"Then all of a sudden the wind started blowing and Jesus looked up to the sky... I looked and saw a dark storm coming in rolling across the land.... Jesus said in a very seriously but yet tender tone, "Dark days are ahead!" then he looked at me and immediately I was drawn into his eyes...I could see his expression and concern so clearly and he said in the most assuring tone, "I don't want you to be afraid! I am with you!"
Second vision:
"Jesus, I want to ask you about the dark days that are coming... What were you referring to...? "Dark days are coming to America~but I don't want you to worry about that!" How do I prepare? "You prepare by keeping your eyes on me."
I am mentioning these now only because after the first Joplin tornado hit...
Heard: There is more to come...
Not really wanting to realize what that meant... I had to stand firm on the two previous visions that I had received a month prior...and the fact that Jesus told me very matter a factly "Do not fear"!
Then the second tornado hit and it was more devastating than the first... I was quickened again to the prophetic word that Jesus had given... "Dark days are coming to America" ....
This is a very rude awaking for so many.... God is not real to so many people... They may attend church every Sunday morning but they aren't realizing they are coming and standing before the King of this universe... So many people are walking in darkness... Even now after all of this devastating weather (tornados and floods)...still they aren't seeing God for God... Some are clinging to the idea that He will come and hear their cries and heal their land...but not understanding the pre-requisite for that promise... God says humble yourselves...repent...then I will hear from Heaven and heal your land... (2 Chronicles 7:14).
Last night we had a major thunderstorm roll through with many tornado warnings all around... My phone started ringing...my husband was up watching the radar...I got up checked in with my famiy who were all still up... and the weather progressivly got worse...
HEARD: Remember, Do not fear.
I was then quickened to the vision I mentioned above... I went and layed down and went to sleep!
HEARD: Remember, Do not fear.
I was then quickened to the vision I mentioned above... I went and layed down and went to sleep!
Tonight at dinner my husband was tellng me how everyone he talked to mentioned how they were up all night watching the radar...there was no rest for these soul injured people...Now the very mention of a storm brewing and ears perk up...senses are heightened. Instead of peace arising in knowing that God had his sovereign hand of protection on us once and He is certainly able to do it again...Fear and doubt creeps in... worrying about what is to come... I was quickened to this verse:
Psalms 76: 8
"From heaven you pronounced judgment, and the land feared and was quiet."
Father,
My heart is breaking for these people... the ones not living in the peace that Jesus died on the cross to give... My heart is breaking for the ones who have had their lives and families torn apart from this awaking... The ones who now are in fear and are still before the Lord... I pray for Grace and Mercy abundantly to be showered down on them... Father, send forth your word and heal their families... send forth your word and heal their land... Father that they will recovery quickly...rising from these ashes Glorifying you! I pray not one will have a hardened heart... Father I pray...send forth your word and heal their wounds...I pray for your blood to be poured over America right now... Father that you would hear the cries of your righteous ones... standing for the weak and wounded... Father I ask for a vast deployment of your heavenly host carrying the healing oil to pour on your people... on all affected by these storms... Father show us all mercy... please father...extend your grace...extend your mercy...speak to the hearts of your children reminding them you are more than able to calms the storms around them...Father that when you speak the winds obey....Father when you speak the waters obey.... You Father are Lord of all.... Father~ I love you... For I am nothing without you... You are God alone, Father and all Glory goes to you!
Mathew 7:24-27
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and bear against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundations on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, and streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."
Mathew 8: 23-27
" The he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. Without warning a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. but Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke him saying, "Lord, save us! We're going to drown!" He replied, "You of little faith, why are you so afraid?" The he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm. The men were amazed and asked, "What kind of man is this ? Even the winds and the waves obey him!"
Luke 8: 24-25
" One day Jesus said to his disciples, "Let's go over to the other side of the lake," So they got into the boat and set out. As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger. The disciples went and woke him, saying, "Master, Master, we going to drown!" he got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. Where is your faith? he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, "Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him."
" One day Jesus said to his disciples, "Let's go over to the other side of the lake," So they got into the boat and set out. As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger. The disciples went and woke him, saying, "Master, Master, we going to drown!" he got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. Where is your faith? he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, "Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him."
I have been before God tonight standing in the gap for everyone affected by our severe weather... Please stand with me... these hurting people need our prayers... they need God's grace and mercy to shower them...
With so much love~
Erica
