Words for Valley

The following Words from the Lord have been given for the valley below.

Leader/Elder Meeting at Bingaman’s home, Oct. 29, 2007

Conversation flowed among those present about the events of the past few days and what the Lord is revealing concerning the future.

Pastor Kerry appears like an old man, overcome by the Holy Spirit—feeble, weak, needing help to walk, voice weak

Wayne will be in birth pains until the giant stands up.  He will do that by himself.

God hasn’t finished; He’s just begun.

From Joel: The Lord utters His voice before the army.

Gloria has had birth pains all day.  Monika asked her to call in her husband.  Gloria had a vision of birthing Bill Bryson—fully dressed with boots.  Then she birthed 2 shiny silver balls, different sizes; the larger one, a church.

Michele, what did Jesus do for you?  She said that she couldn’t sleep last night.  Saw the faces of ugly things, trying to speak but they couldn’t.  It wasn’t an evil presence.  This sacred assembly was the first wave, crashing over us to get rid of the ugliness among us—spirits of negativity, lying, misperceptions, infirmity and more.  The spirits were rendered powerless.  Michele babbled in her vision.  This will be the enemy’s language.  It’s symbolic of the enemy’s communication being confused.  The Lord gave Michele power to heal.  Pastor knew that God took her someplace.

Pastor: I’m feeling feeble.  Said he will have nothing to do with anything that is of the flesh—that reminds him of the power of men.  He’s crushed the spirit that wants to be in control.

God has given us a different wineskin

John B: The church has shifted.  We’re no longer down-trodden.  In a vision, saw that our church has taken over the entire city block.  He saw our church move up river, or movement came out of our church that moved up river.  Our church was a bright moving ball, red in color.  Moving northwest toward Danville, Milton and Lewisburg, not as far as Williamsport.

Wayne, where have you been since yesterday?  When he got into his car this morning, the labor pains came back.  The day was very busy, but when the busyness calmed down the pains came back.  Not as painful as yesterday.  Yesterday’s labor pains were one big birthing for the church; then, things birthed for individuals.  We are not the same.  It’s not just for us.

Pastor: God has to answer what to do with the new hunger and the changes.  New wineskins require new wine.

Wayne: Yesterday, he could see people doing things they had never done before.

Pastor: (135 people in church on Sunday) There was such a spirit of prophesy in the Church on Sunday.

Barb had such a spirit of intercession on Sunday.  Pray for the people who did not come up for prayer.  Some will choke on the waters and be overtaken.  Pray that the numbers are as few as possible.

Pastor: John Sloyer, the finger of God is pointing at you.  You’re going to let go of more.  A testimony is birthing.

Wayne had a thought this morning.  He had a choice, he could abort.

Jan:  The Lord said that there is a price to pay for what He’s giving us.

Lily: It becomes a joy to pay it.  We want it—souls, miracles.

Pastor: Never the same.  All will rise up.  Even the courageous will fear the heights; will be afraid of the free-fall I will cause them to take.  They will fall without a parachute. 

Pastor’s arms have gone very heavy.  The arms of God will grow heavy.  Mighty will be his Hand.  Strong will be His arm and tight will be His fist when He strikes the throne room chair with decrees no one can hold back.  Heavy will be His arm of power.  Great will be His thunder.  Pastor’s right arm remains heavy.

Pastor: We have made a mistake planning a Wednesday (Light the Night), and not fully considering God in it.  Some of us may not function as we thought we would, nor will God do what we thought He might.  No alternative to Wednesday; I only know we have come up short in our planning.  Thursday?  We may need to open the church again.  Spreading the word of what God has done and what He’s doing will take a form of its own.  Some in this room will have to do their part.

Pastor: Feeling hot.  You are here because it is not for me to know the whole of it.  Say what the Lord gives you. 

Dan: Anointing the park for Light the Night late afternoon Wednesday.

For John S, 3 to 4 days from Sunday you’ll find the answer.

Lizette: Not going to have a normal practice on Thursday.  God has just told me that I need to move more in His word than ever before.

Pastor: I’m sitting in the heavenlies, in the high places with the clouds.  The Lord is beside me.  He has heaped something in my lap.  I don’t know what it is. I’m floating.  It’s where He’s taking anyone who will go.  It will be laid on the lap of anyone who will carry it.  It’s easy to hold because the strength of God is great.

Lily: Each person in the room is a general in God’s army.  You have a target.  We all have a strategic place.  Don’t take it lightly.  It doesn’t matter if we think we are not smart enough or courageous enough, God has ordained it.

About Josiah: The enemy is attacking him.  It was spiritual.  He didn’t sleep; mind racing.  The enemy was putting many thoughts in his head.  Because of yesterday, the enemy must know he will not get back what he lost.  The devil’s scratching and clawing to get a grip again.

To Dan: Now it’s okay to smile.  Before, you were afraid, now, it’s okay to smile.  Wayne felt burning on his lips.  Dan, in a quiet place you have said no; but in a big place, you have said yes.  The fear is gone.  Stand in a high place.  See the people to see what the Father is doing with them.  He has given you command over the high places.  We need to hold Lizette and Dan up in prayer.  The first arrows from the enemy go toward the worship leaders.

To Lizette: Out of a broken vessel the most beautiful music flows.  Accept the commission.  You have cared what others see and think when they look in your direction.  I have heard you say, “I don’t care.”  With a fresh breath, I breathe on you.  His wind begins to rush.  It begins to swirl, to take you to places and take you to other places.  The tail will decide where you go.  It is my tail.  I will give you song from the throne room.  Is 6: 5-8  (Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore)

About Thursday (meet at ROL at 7pm): There is a call from the Lord.  He’s saying, Summon my people to my house.  Not just River of Life.  Those who will come will come.  Spread the word.  Summon my people to come.  What happens Thursday will not be of my (Pastor’s) orchestration and I’m not the only one to bring it about.  The valley is wide and long.  There are people in the valley who need to know.  You know people who have to know this.  Tell them and they will know it is from me.  My Spirit will give you authority.  Don’t worry about Friday, not even tomorrow.  I told you not to worry.  The heights are higher than you think.  You will have to come down to see anything that resembles earthly.

April 3, 1989, John S.: a coal was put on his lips.  Then a word, there is a cleansing of worship that is coming.

Pastor: Everyone in church needs to know our church’s journey.

Run through the battlefield like a medic pinching the very arteries of the wounded.  Your alone time with God will give you direction.

There won’t be accidents or coincidences.  Things that were ordinary will have new purpose.  Your conversations will be guided by the Lord.  You are not the same.  You cannot do life the same; you are not allowed.  Even in your home you are not allowed to be the same.

Pray for Gerry Shipe.  Go to her home.  She can’t come to us.  What God does will give her the strength to come.

Quit striving.  Let go.  God is going to do it.  His plan is different from ours.  He doesn’t need us.  He doesn’t need our ideas or our words.  He’s got it all taken care of.  He will cause his river to take the direction it should go.  He’ll carve the path.  Even the rocks that won’t move, He will make it happen.  You can’t help Him do that.

Pastor: I’m becoming aware of a reality in the Church, even in our room.  For some to look to me as pastor will no longer be.  God will be your pastor now.  He is leading the way

Pastor: I won’t be able to handle the mundane.  This mantle has nothing to do with the mundane.

Lizette, I see Lianna up with you.  You need to tell her God wants this.

Sacred Assembly, October 27 - 28, 2007 at River of Life

10/27 at 12noon: Gathered to begin the Sacred Assembly

Pastor Kerry: We have a bowl of sponges saturated with anointing oil.  We need to start off as a body by taking authority to bind strongholds.

Isaiah 10:27 “In that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat”  The imagery is that of oxen yoked by the enemy.  That yoke is broken because their necks grow fat.

Eph 6:12 “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against …the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm.”  What we’re doing is 100% spiritual.  What we battle is spiritual. 

Matt 12:29 “…first tie up the strong man…”  We intend to rob the strongman’s house this weekend.  We’re here to evict the strong man.

Pastor Kerry invites each person to come to take a sponge and go out with others to anoint the building and surrounding area.  We’re covering God’s house; serving the enemy eviction notice.  Binding and loosing.

Ps 56:9 “Then my enemies will turn back when I call for help.  By this I will know that God is with me.”  The enemy will be turned back!

Begin with a song, “Holy Visitation” Rita Springer

Wayne Line: This is a spiritual war.  We need to put on the armor of God.                                                 Read and prayed Eph 6:10-18.

We scattered throughout the building and the grounds to anoint and pray.  Several men even went out on the roof to pray and make declarations, punctuated by blowing their shofars.  A group of women began in the upper room that had been an office.  We repented, sought forgiveness, prayed, and anointed the area, lingering for at least an hour.  Kathy O’Grady received this word:                                                                                                                                          “Oh, my daughters, my precious daughters                                                                                      I have seen you work tirelessly in this city.                                                                                          I have seen you step up and volunteer when the men would not.                                                       I have called you, each one.                                                                                                               I have seen you be the backbone of this church.                                                                                    I have heard your words of repentance and I accept this offering;                                                          and from these ashes, I will create something beautiful;                                                                  upon these ashes, I will build by church.”                                         

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Dan Keiper: Joel 1:13-2:1

Worship: “Blow the Trumpet in Zion”

Instruments or sound system malfunction.  Lily: What an incredible place to be in!  The enemy is trying to thwart what we’re doing.  The instruments may fail, but we can still use our voices to praise Him.  Satan will try to stop us.  We serve satan eviction notice.  Sunbury is about to become ablaze with the glory of God.  Satan, you can’t do anything about it.  God’s people are on the move.

Pastor:  Sometimes we don’t know how to pray.  (He invited us to pray in the Spirit.)  When we pray in the Spirit, the enemy cannot interfere.  He cannot do anything about it.  If you don’t have a prayer language, pray with the understanding.  Praying in tongues is part of our warfare. 

Message in tongues:  Interpretation, John Sloyer:  “How often have I desired to call you unto myself? How often have I called you to come unto me?  I desire to sup with you.  I’m knocking, and knocking, and knocking.  Will you open your life unto me?  Will you open and let me in that I may make your life abundant and free?”

Shirley Strickland: Have scriptures from Zephaniah and Haggai to share.                                 God wants us to take back all that the enemy has stolen.  “Take back what the enemy has stolen!  Amen”                                                                                                                  Zephaniah 3:16-17 “Fear not…  Let not thine hands be slack.  The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.”                                                                                                      Zephaniah 3:18-19 “I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.  Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee; and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.”                                           Luke 10:19 “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”                                            We’re in a move of God.  I can see a Holy Ghost explosion in the River of Life!  I’ve seen the faithfulness of the people, the pastor and his wife, in prayer.  In the midst of a move of God, when the enemy tries to interfere, fear will come over the people—fear of the enemy.  We have the power to trample the enemy today!  “I am with you,” saith the Lord.  None of us can bring revival.  The Holy Spirit will bring the revival.  We have nothing to fear.                        Haggai 2:9 “The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former…”                   Don’t get slack.  He’s about to do something.  We anointed this place.  The blood is covering it.  God is about to do a Holy Ghost Explosion!

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Debbie Bobb: I keep hearing the word “draw”.  God is drawing me.  God is the master artist.  Painting takes time.  Scriptures having to do with God drawing us or us drawing close to God:  John 12:32, Ps 73:28, John 6:44, Song of Solomon 1:4, Heb 10:22, James 4:8.

Worship song: “Draw me close to you”

Pastor: The Holy Spirit wants to do a personal work in each of us.  We’re all in different places.  But He wants to take us all on a journey.  “Draw me close to You” should be our heart cry.  We’re not good enough.  We’ve not come far enough.  Let Him draw us close to Him.  Hop on the Potter’s wheel.  Say, “Form me into the vessel that You can use.”  Let God do what He wants with us.

Liamar: Sometimes we hide behind closed doors.  God says, “I cannot fully work in you if you don’t give me everything.”  God wants you to give Him everything that you have behind closed doors.  He can’t change it if you don’t allow Him.

Song: “Refiner’s Fire”

Wayne: I keep hearing the word “surrender”.  This weekend we’re moving toward God.  We all carry baggage around with us, holding us back.  That hinders our walk with the Lord.  We need to surrender all to God.  We may be afraid to let go, but we need to let go of those things that are holding us back.  Surrender those things to God—health, home, kids, vehicles, job, … Put them in His hands.  Nothing is impossible with God.  If we believe that, why are we afraid to surrender to Him?

Song: “I Surrender All” & “Here I am to Worship”

Rich Price: As elders we fast and pray and ask for direction corporately as a body.  The word comes from you, from all of us.  I believe that God is speaking to a lot of people.  What is God saying to you?  It’s the word for the church.  If you get a word from God, be obedient to share it with someone else, so the enemy doesn’t steal it from you.  If each of us shares what God is saying, we’ll get a complete picture.

Wayne: I have no idea what God is doing.  We’ve talked about surrender.  Once you surrender, take the step to say to God, “Whatever You will to do, do it.”  He won’t give us details, but give Him permission to do whatever He wants in your life.  Let Him have His way.  I say, “Are you ready to let God do what He wants to do in your life?  And are you ready as a church?”  If you are, say, “Yes, Lord, have Your way!”

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Pastor: I began to weep, crying out, “God, get us while we’re here.  Get us while we’re here.”  The Holy Spirit let me know that someone won’t be here very long.  They’re literally testing God.  God is speaking to you now.  I say, “God, get us while we’re here.”  Listen to Him.  You don’t need to test Him.  Just submit to Him.  He has a purpose and a plan to do what He will do.  It’s not to be resisted.  Let God be God, and let Him do what He will do.  God says, “You tell me that I have you, but I don’t have you in your home, in your workplace, in your marriage, …  Let’s continue to listen to Him.

Michael Quaye: song: “I’m giving in”

Leonor Arroyo: Read favorite Psalm: 30

Song: “You Alone”

Pastor: The Lord is leading us on a corporate journey.  On a whole, the church (ROL specifically, but the church in general) is not what it ought to be.  The Lord would have us examine the things where we have short changed Him, grieved Him; the things we’ve done that we should not have done.  Now we need to spend time thinking about where we’ve failed; spend time in prayer, confession, testimony, so we can come into agreement as a body about the areas where we’ve fallen short.  We have been wayward, stubborn, and complacent.  We want to be yielded and pliable in His hands.  We want to move forward with the Lord.

Keith: I’ve realized the importance of family.  Also I know that problems exist within the family, and we tend to bring them back.  How much does He yearn for us to be together (in one accord) as a family?  When we’re not, does He hurt? 

Awilda: Pray against disunity in the body, divisions in the church.  Pray that we would be one as You are one.

Pastor: 2 Kings 23. The Lord brought nationwide renewal through King Josiah                                            2 Chron 7:14                                                                                                                                         If we want God to hear us we must humble ourselves and acknowledge the ways we’ve come up short, if we expect He’s going to heal our land.

Carol: Don’t let go of the call God has on your life.

Mike Z: John 13:34 “Love one another”                                                                                                         1 John 4:12”…love one another”                                                                                                       Have the courage to correct one another in love.

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Candy: I keep hearing “Talk about forgiveness”.  “What keeps us from loving each other on an intimate level is the same thing that keeps us from loving God intimately.  It is unforgiveness.”  Candy gave her testimony about Jessica’s final bout with surgery and the complications leading to her death.  She expressed the anger and unforgiveness she felt toward the doctor, and the ensuing reconciliation with the doctor years later.  She expressed freedom in forgiveness and encouraged others to look at their stumbling blocks that are keeping God from blessing them.

Debbie S: Expressed thoughts about putting God first in our lives and serving God with a right heart.  Expressed how much she values the church as family.  Prayed that God would work in our hearts to be united as a family.

Shirley S: Encouraged the young people to hang on, and be willing to be used wherever God places them.                                                                                                                                        God is the healer and deliverer.  God is on the move here.  That’s how revival begins: confessing and mending relationships.

Michael:  “My second language is music.”                                                                                        His song:                                                                                                                                  I want all of You, Lord, A through Z                                                                                        Please take all of me, completely.                                                                                         Make me more like You in all I do                                                                                         That’s what I want to be.

Michael: 2 + 2 = forever.  2 great commandments—Love the Lord with all you heart, mind, & strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.  2 new commandments—Love one another as I have loved you, and love not the world or the things in it.  Our kids need not to be well-rounded with the things of the world because it’s easy for them to roll away.  Rather, they need to be well-grounded in the things of God.  Submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee.

Pastor: We’re here to be real.  Unforgiveness is the poison we drink while we’re waiting for someone else to die.  James 5:16: Confess to one another so we can be healed.  The Church is sickly because of the offenses we’re holding on to.  Be honest with yourselves.  Is there anyone you could not sit across the table from and say, “I love you”?  Then, you have “ought”; you have something you need to lay down; something that would keep the Holy Spirit from truly being able to pour out on a liberated people.  You have something you’re holding on to, and you’re drinking poison while you’re waiting for someone else to pay for an offense against you.  The devil loves it when there are divisions because it keeps us out of the world, making a difference for God.  Get rid of all the things that stand between you and anyone in the body.  Remember, it’s the little foxes that spoil the vine.

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Lizette: word in tongues

Michele: interpretation: “There is a place where I long to take you; a place where it is just you and I alone, where I can reveal to you the many things I want to do in your life, through you and in you.  There is a secret place where I want you to go today, this very moment, to find out the revelations, the wisdom and knowledge that I long to tell you.  When Jesus was on earth, He spoke in parables, but when He took His disciples aside alone, He spoke to them revelation and truth.  This is where I want you to be.”

Holy Laughter

Freedom March: “I went to the enemy’s camp and I took back what he stole from me… He’s under my feet!...”

John S.: Prayers!  Prayers of hunger and thirst!  I think that’s where we are right now.  More of Him!  An out-pouring!  What’s coming to Sunbury is going to start here.                                                  Psalm 81:10  Open wide thy mouth and I will fill it.                                                                              Jer 29:13  Ye shall seek me and find me when ye shall search with all your heart                               Zech 10:1  Ask the Lord for rain in the springtime.  It is the Lord who makes the storm                       clouds.  He gives showers of rain to men and plants of the field, to everyone.                                Ps 42:1,2  As the deer pants for the streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.                 My soul thirsts for God, the living God.  When can I go and meet with God?

Wayne: Spend time praying for each other.  Elders will pray for special needs.  We just say, “More, Lord, more”

Pastor: Do you have a desire for the deepest things God has for us?  Prayer: thanking God for where He’s brought us, knowing that He’s not done.  We’ve been going on nearly 24 hours.  If you weren’t here through the night, you didn’t get to see your pastor hugging carpet for a while.  He took me out of the mix, but there was a purpose in that on different levels, and God’s got things in store for us.  I’ll share a little bit where the Lord took me at about 3am.                         Prayer: Lord, shine our armor, polish the shields that we hold, sharpen that 2 edged sword in our spirit.  Cause us to be yielded and submitted to you.  You have a plan and a purpose for us and this body in this region.  We extend you every liberty to do in us what You desire.

Worship: Blow the Trumpet in Zion

Kathy: …Reach out and touch the hem of my garment. ….and all these things will added unto you.  It pleases me to give you the kingdom.  Reach out and touch the hem of my garment.

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Liz:  The Lord wants us to come just as we are.

Wayne:  You need to know what the Lord is doing.  Why on earth He would have a man feel labor pains is beyond me!  But I feel them.  God is birthing something in this place now.  Now is the time.  You need to help me pray through this.

Pastor:  There is a reason for that and I need to add to it.  You see, the Lord needs to remind us of something that He called us to this weekend—to go into labor and delivery for the new life He had conceived in us in this body months and months in the past with promises, with prophesies, with declarations from His word saying that He had intent and a definite plan to do a new thing.  And I sense in my spirit as though the Lord is saying that you must push.  Now is the time to push.  Ladies, you know what it means when you get to that place.  What happens if you fail to push?  I believe the Holy Spirit would tell us today, “If you do not push, and the enemy is able to have his way, this thing I have conceived in you will be stillborn—for the enemy will wrap the umbilical cord around its neck and make sure that nothing happens.  But if you will push, then today the thing will be delivered”  I don’t know where you are at this morning and what yet might need to be surrendered to God, but it’s time to get on board and grab an oar and start rowing this boat.  It’s time to say “yes” to the things of God.  It’s time to say, “ I’m done playing church.  I’m done playing with God and done with Him playing with me, and I’m going to do this thing because God is calling us forward to do a thing now, this day!”  Folks, let’s push til God has His way today.

Worship

Pastor: (His voice weak and halting, unsteady on his feet, appearing to be in agony)                                                 I have to do this before I’m not able to because I don’t know what all God’s up to.  I was told I needed to wait til this morning to share some things that God gave me over a year ago, promises He laid on my heart, prophetic promises, things I’ve not been able to share with anyone, things He’s kept my mouth sealed about for a season or time.  Some things I’ve shared with elders in bits and pieces, but not for the body.  Last year in July, some of the elders prompted my wife and I to go along to an Eagles’ Wings conference and during that time, the Lord led us to pull those elder couples to a side room to pray for them.  We didn’t know why, but we just knew the Lord had laid it upon our hearts to tell them they needed special praying.  And while we were praying, the Lord so began to overwhelm me that I couldn’t share, even a word.  Some probably wondered whether I was even interested in praying.  But what God was planting in my heart I could not do anything else but wait to share it.  The Lord brought these things back to my heart the last few days here.  I know they may not be word for word but the essence is there.  I want to share what God had laid on my heart at that time.

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July 2006

In a word spoken to some of the Elders came this promise:

I have heard your heart cries and I know you have grown weary by the night, for the night watch has been long and the night season has tired you.  Only do not be impatient, for you have reasoned in your hearts “I have been waiting for so long;” but have I not been more patient than you, and have I not waited much longer than you.  Yet the time is coming when I will wait no longer, and I am going to cause the sun to rise on the day of my blessing in your midst; and though the night season has seemed long to you, know this, that the day of my blessing will be longer still, for even as it was in the days of Joshua, I am going to cause the sun to stand still on the day of my blessing so that it will be long and extended.  Only be patient, for my timing is perfect in this, and I am yet doing a work in the hearts of some that must be completed.  Only be patient for I will surely do what I have in mind to do, says the Lord!

Pastor:  Probably about a month later, the Lord halted me right here in a worship service, and I had to write down what He was telling me.  And I knew I could not share.  It would not be received.

August 2006

I am going to break forth in the midst of my people.  I am going to cause the floodwaters of my Spirit to rise.  The dams and levees of men cannot contain them, neither will they be able to hold them back.  Some will drink from the flood waters and be refreshed with life and that more abundantly than ever before.  Some will choke on them, and the waters will overtake them.  Some will swim in those waters and be renewed in my presence, and still others will walk upon them and lead with the extraordinary faith that I will place in them.  Even now I am loosening the mill stone that has been tied around the neck of my people.  Yes, even now I have begun to split the seams of the old wine skins, for they cannot contain the new wine I would pour out!

Pastor:  This is the only version of a sermon you’re going to get this morning.

Matthew 9:16, 17

                “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.  Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins.  If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.  No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

The new wine that God would pour out upon River of Life cannot be poured into our old wineskins (the way we have been).  God must be allowed to work with a new wineskin that can stretch with Him and work with him as he desires.  Will you allow the wineskin of your heart to be made new?  Newly surrendered to Him?  Newly committed to Him?  Would you be free from the yeast that caused the old wine to fester and ferment, turning it into a mocker instead of the sweet new wine God wanted it to be preserved as?

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Pastor:  There’s a bottle of oil that still sits up here.  If the Lord lets me stand on my feet, I’m going to stand with that oil; and if you’re willing to say, “God, I want a whole new wineskin.  This one won’t work.”  If you let God split the old wineskin off of you, then I’m going to touch you with that oil--maybe a whole handful, I don’t know.  If the Lord moves on your heart you need to get down here.  Trust me; He can do this without you.  If the Lord introduces you to the carpet and if you go down, you stay there until God gets done sitting on you, until the Holy Spirit sews that new wine skin tight and tosses the old one aside.

In a weakened condition, struggling to stand, Pastor Kerry anointed, prayed for and prophesied over all the people who were willing.  This lasted for at least 2 hours.

Wednesday- October 31, 2007

"Edited copy to the Valley and River of Life"

The Word of the Lord for the Susquehanna Valley came forth in power…….the sleeping Giant (THE CHURCH) has been awakened from her slumber! 

Until the Giant stands upright and shakes herself once again for the day of battle the birth pains will continue!
Many of us are feeling the “physical” birth pains.  Strong and heavy birth pains with actual knowledge of what it is that is being birthed!   

 

The LORD utters his voice before His ARMY!  Joel 2:11

 

God’s presence is so powerful and prevailing that it has rendered Pastor Kerry physically feeble yet revealing to him much as he is only able to sit, his arms and hands heavy and his voice barely a whisper!

 

The solemn assembly called for by God was a first wave of God’s power.  It was sent forcefully to remove off of us things that had been attached to us!  A cleansing wave if you will.  We as vessels have been full of things that did not please God and so this wave was sent to EMPTY our vessel in preparation for the infilling of what God has for us.  The wave was so powerful it tumbled us if you will so that we were NO LONGER IN CONTROL but God is the controlling force in our lives now.  It also came so powerfully that it stirred the waters and created a foam that rendered us incapable to see anything that we may want to PICK BACK UP!  It stirred within us the hunger and thirst for MORE OF HIM!

 

There has been a shift.  The church has been repositioned.  We have a new identity -- no longer down trodden, rather unified and powerful.  In spiritual eyes we see us enveloping our whole block and spreading north!  The church has become like a moving ball, a sphere, spiraling up river toward towns and cities north to Williamsport, indicating our sphere of influence.

 

There was a HEAVY prophetic anointing over the people of God Sunday morning and has continued since. 

 

Heavy and Mighty is the Hand of GOD, tight will be the fist of God when he strikes the throne room chair with decrees that no one can hold back.  Heavy will be his ARM of power and great will be the THUNDER of it.

This new thing that God is doing will come like a flood, like rushing waters.  Some will choke on the waters and will be overtaken.  Some will swim in the water.  Some will walk on the waters.

 

In 3-4 days we will find out what the powerful plan of God will be.  Thursday, we need a call to order, 7:00 p.m. at River of Life. 

 

God is taking us all to HIGHER places to Heavenly places, all of us, if we will go with him. 

 

We must summon the Pastors in the Valley; summon the people that have been looking for this great move of God.  We must call them to come along with us.  The Valley is wide and long and we must spread the news to them to come Thursday night.  The flame must be spread.  Everyone needs to know of our journey.

Tuesday- October 30, 2007

"Urgent Prayer Meeting"

River of Life Family,

 

There will be many emails that come out today declaring what God has begun to do and what He will be doing in the immediate future!  One thing that everyone can agree with is that WE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN!

This morning many of the elders awoke to an urgency in their spirits to pray!  "Light the Night" is a key event that will open up the heart of this Valley for what God will pour out!  The enemy has declared that he will "cut us off at the knees".......BUT GOD has already revealed the plan that Satan had against us and given us instruction as to how to fight the battle.  No weapon formed against us will prosper!

 

We are meeting at the church tonight at 7:00 p.m.  Come and help us to push back the forces of the enemy! 

 

Pray with us that God will ready the hearts, eyes, and ears of the people that we will touch on Wednesday night.  They will come prepared to receive "ordinary" treats of hot dogs and candy, but God is ready to give the the EXTRAORDINARY!

 

Blessings,

Michele

Tuesday- October 30, 2007

Word for the church body & the Susquehanna Valley

This for the church body and and for those who need to know in the Valley.

The Word of the Lord for the Susquehanna Valley came forth in power…….the sleeping Giant (THE CHURCH) has been awakened from her slumber! 

Until the Giant stands upright and shakes herself once again for the day of battle the birth pains will continue!
Many of us are feeling the “physical” birth pains.  Strong and heavy birth pains with actual knowledge of what it is that is being birthed!  

 

The LORD utters his voice before His ARMY!

 

God’s presence is so powerful and prevailing that it has rendered Pastor Kerry physically feeble yet revealing to him much as he is only able to sit his arms and hands heavy and his voice barely a whisper!

 

The solemn assembly called for by God was a first wave of God’s power.  It was sent forcefully to remove off of us things that had been attached to us!  A cleansing wave if you will.  We as vessels have been full of things that did not please God and so this wave was sent to EMPTY our vessel in preparation for the infilling of what God has for us.  The wave was so powerful it tumbled us if you will so that we were NO LONGER IN CONTROL but God is the controlling force in our lives now.  It also came so powerfully that it stirred the waters and created a foam that rendered us incapable to see anything that we may want to PICK BACK UP!  It stirred within us the hunger and thirst for MORE OF HIM!

 

The Church has begun a shift – We are no longer down trodden in spiritual eyes we see us taking our whole block and spreading north!  The church has become like a moving ball a sphere spiraling up river toward Williamsport.

 

There was a HEAVY prophetic anointing over the people of God Sunday morning. 

 

Heavy and Mighty is the Hand of GOD, tight will be the fist of God when he strikes the throne room chair with decrees that no one can hold back.  Heavy will be his ARM of power and great will be the THUNDER of it.

 

In 3-4 days we will find out what the powerful plan of God will be.  Thursday, we need a call to order, 7:00 p.m. at River of Life. 

 

God is taking us all to HIGHER places to Heavenly places, all of us if we will go with him. 

 

We must summon the Pastors in the Valley, summon the people that have been looking for this great move of God we must call them to come along with us.  The Valley is wide and long and we must spread the news to them to come Thursday night.  The flame must be spread.  Everyone needs to know of our journey.

Monday- October 29, 2007

"FOR THE BODY OF CHRIST IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY"

I have awakened a sleeping Giant in this land says the Lord.  She is my church!  Though cold has been her heart, and deep has been her slumber, yet have I roused her from the coma she has been in for so long in this region, for she has heard the voice of the Almighty calling her to arise.

The Lion of Judah has roared against the one who has been crouching against my people; lying in the wastelands, seeking whom he may devour.  Yes says the Lord, I have roared against him and established my presence here; for the enemy has not felt the threat of that roar for a great length of days in this region.

Though now the Giant has stretched upon her bed, and even by her stretching I have caused a quaking in the dark places.  Now with but one eye open, she has begun to see the desolation that has grown around her while she slept.

Great will be the day when she stands upright, to shake herself once again for the day of battle in the land.  Powerful will be my might through the Giant I have awakened says the Lord!

Sunday- October 28, 2007

A word for River of Life

For the Sacred Assembly

Matthew 9:16, 17

            No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.  Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins.  If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.  No they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

The new wine that God would pour out upon River of Life cannot be poured into our old wineskins (the way we have been).  God must be allowed to work with a new wineskin that can stretch with Him and work with him as he desires.  Will you allow the wineskin of your heart to be made new?  Newly surrendered to Him?  Newly committed to Him?  Would you be free from the yeast that caused the old wine to fester and ferment, turning it into a mocker instead of the sweet new wine God wanted it to be preserved as?

August 2006

I am going to brake forth in the midst of my people.  I am going to cause the floodwaters of my Spirit to rise.  The dams and levies of men cannot contain them, neither will they be able to hold them back.  Some will drink from the flood waters and be refreshed with life and that more abundantly than ever before.  Some will choke on them, and the waters will over take them.  Some will swim in those waters and be renewed in my presence, and still others will walk upon them and lead with the extraordinary faith that I will place in them.  Even now I am loosening the mill stone that has been tied around the neck of my people.  Yes even now I have begun to split the seams of the old wine skins, for they cannot contain the new wine I would pour out!

July 2006

In a word spoken to some of the Elders came this promise:

I have heard your heart cries and I know you have grown weary by the night, for the night watch has been long and the night season has tired you.  Only do not be impatient, for you have reasoned in your hearts “I have been waiting for so long;” but have I not been more patient than you, and have I not waited much longer than you.  Yet the time is coming when I will wait no longer, and I am going to cause the sun to rise on the day of my blessing in your midst; and though the night season has seemed long to you, know this that the day of my blessing will be longer still, for even as it was in the days of Joshua, I am going to cause the sun to stand still on the day of my blessing so that it will be long and extended.  Only be patient, for my timing is perfect in this, and I am yet doing a work in the hearts of some that must be completed.  Only be patient for I will surely do what I have in mind to do, says the Lord!