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Warnings to America - Steve Grable - Orla Duane - Teresa Seputis
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Originally posted November 20, 2004
The following is a prophecy given through Thomas Gibson
2004 11 20.1
I declare, says the Lord, that Bush would win the election. I declare, says the Lord, that the time of judgment upon the U.S. will continue.
First, Bush will surround himself with unwise counsellors. These will lead him away from wisdom and toward destruction.
Then, Bush will drag the U.S. into a situation that will enable China and Russia to attack. When all this is done according to My plan, judgment will become fierce upon fierce. So says the Lord.
Thomas S. Gibson
Thomas Gibson wrote, "This word of the Lord is for all those who have desired to know the times and seasons. There will come a three-fold sign of the end times. This will be, no matter, what else may happen. I, the Lord, have spoken.
1.The fall of an American President
2.The collapse of the American economy
3.The infiltration onto American soil of Enemy bands of soldiers to begin World War III"
David Wilkerson wrote in 1985, "...the great holocaust follows an economic collapse in America. The enemy will make its move when we are weak and helpless..."
on Aug. 31, 2002 Thomas wrote, "The Lord says, George Bush shall not leave his office before the end of his second term, but rather shall be killed before that time."
Thomas Gibson 11-16-97: Coming is the time, near is the time, and soon shall be when the economy shall completely collapse. It will not come totally at once. First there'll be some problems, then there'll be a crash, and so forth.
Thomas Gibson 2-03-01: When the crash comes and it shall come, and it shall come soon, ...and when it comes, I will crash many ministries at that time. For you see they will have raised themselves up on a tidal wave of prosperity of the world, and when that prosperity falls, they will fall with it. For their foundation is built on the love of money. But those ministries that are built on the foundation of the Lord Jesus Christ, they shall rise up and continue, for they have been built on a very solid Rock, says the Lord.
Stephen Hanson 10-30-02: You will see the stock market crash more than it did during the deep depression.
Thomas Gibson 12-02-98: You stand on the verge of the greatest destruction of the economy of this earth. This world shall not see an economy like it has now , ever again. I shall bring it down, and I shall keep it there. For they shall try and raise it up, but I shall not allow it. Trust Me, say the Lord. When the great crash occurs, it shall come down. ...You hear the word. You stand on the verge of the greatest economic collapse in the history of mankind.
Robert Holmes -A Word for the USA -November 1998: ...I believe the time of judgment has arrived for the west, and we shall fear the name of the Lord. Those in the east will fear His glory, for He shall arise and demonstrate His great power in those nations. There will shortly come a time when Wall Street will collapse. No longer shored up by public confidence it will swagger unger the weight of national debt. On a day of frenzied trading, it shall tumble the nation into turmoil and depression.
The attention of the creditor nations will be drawn to America. I saw a time of conferences and meetings, international concern and intervention by prominent international organizations in domestic economics and affairs. For the first time in US history, international organizations will intervene in domestic affairs. I saw international troops on US soil. A National economic crisis, and localized crisis will be announced, and utilizing certain powers, the US President will call the FEMA(Federal Emergency Management Agency) into action. You will see black helicopters on television and this will be a sign. When she is weakest, a set of disasters will befall the nation.
2004 post: there have already been some recent international meetings about the moderate fall in the value of the USA dollar versus the Euro, and the value of Asian currencies versus both the US$ and Euro. So...those "one-worlders" are already working out how they want to engineer it to bring it about.
War Prophesied Between 2005 and 2010
So thus says the Lord. In a few years from now, you will be impaled on the brink of war. It will come with very little warning. I shall bring this war down upon you who think you can serve the world, and claim to serve Me, saith the Lord!! In the year of 2005 you will have yet to see this war. But it will then be but a few moments in time, by the Spirit, till you will see it. It is close, it is coming, and no one can say, “I will hold it back, I will put a stop to it.”
I, the Lord, have made a decision to judge the evil hearts of the people, and I will do it! So it will be, that I have now spoken the year in which I will hold it back to: but by the year 2010 it will have come upon you!! Now listen to this, that I will bring it down upon you in the following way. I will never leave My people unguarded concerning the horrors of the war, but they will come into a knowledge and into a peace about serving Me in this time. I will protect them with a supernatural protection from the throne of God. Now as this occurs, as the war progresses, and Russia takes heart to overthrow the entire world, I will put an end to it. I will see that the time will come that they, Russia, will loose this war, and be changed in their political agenda forever. Russia will become a major world wide country to bring My salvation to all of the earth! So it will be, that this war will come to an end in this way. That by a new invention, that I will see comes to the USA, they will win this war.
But this will NOT occur until they have repented for their sins! They must repent before I will turn the tide of the war to them. I will bring them to the brink of disaster, to the brink of destruction, to the brink of all out loss, before they will turn with their whole heart to Me, says the Lord.
Return to One Faith of the Bible
So as these things occur, remember that I have foretold this in an accurate way. I have set up My prophets, My called ones that have been obedient to the Word of the Spirit, to the things of the Lord, to the ways of God––them have I called to take control of the situation of prophesying this prophecy to the world, to the USA, to all those who shall listen and obey the voice of God. As My people will turn their hearts to Me in a total way, they will receive more power from above then they could ever dream about.
This power will turn them into the holy ones that I have foretold in the “Ephesians book” of scripture, in the 4th chapter, in the 3rd to 15th verses. For I have said that they will walk in the faith, the one faith, not the divided faith, but the ONE faith!!! I am that faith, says the Lord God of Heaven. I am the one who you shall serve. Rise up into Christ the head!
Persecution Comes After the War
As My people turn to the one faith, there will then come a persecution like has never been before in this earth, on this planet, in this time of the end––for it will start at the time of the end of the war. Satan will have fought for the destruction of this planet by first trying to take over the world through satanic influences in the country of Russia. But it shall not be. This is one more situation to learn from. He, Satan, is trying to take over the world, to raise up a world kingdom of himself, the evil one.
So it shall be, that this will eventually occur, but not at this war. This war will be the war that will bring the sudden destruction, and realization that war is inevitable, and most dangerous, because it cannot be controlled in the earth. As the people stay away from Me, so shall they be destroyed by their own evil lusts for power; and their destruction shall be in their own mouth.
Great Fear of War Brings a Snare
Now as this war comes to an end, there will be another fear on this earth like has never been before. Yes, it has come before, but not in the way that it will come from, and to, this time. It will come from this earth’s system, Satan himself will go to those who will not walk in My ways, those who will not turn to Me. I said there will come a time of heart’s failing for fear. This will not be the time, but it will be a prelude to this time.
The fear of war, which will rise up at this time, will be so strong that every politician will be overcome by this fear, and will try to appease the people with any kind of peace agreement, no matter how ridiculous it may seem. They will sign anything, as long as they can use it to convince the people war will never happen again. This is the tool satan will use to bring about total world power in one being, in one place, says the Lord God.
Short Time of "Peace, Peace"
So as this will come to an end, the war years, there will come a new peace upon this earth for a very short time. This will be the true time of peace, peace. For they will shout it loud and long. They will shout it loud and long! They will shout it loud and long!! They will not only be afraid of the peace that is not to be, but they will be afraid of their own peace accords, because they will know deep down that their own peace accords will result in another world war!
This is not the end of all war, but rather the beginning of world war! It shall so be done, for their master, the devil, will see to it. Those who will walk with Me will see a new agreement in this earth. The agreement of true peace accord that will be by My power, says the Lord. My power. My power! Not this earth’s power, but by My power, says the Lord God of all!! End of prophecy
Many more prophecies, articles, books, and other materials are available from Thomas Gibson's web site at:
www.prophetic-word.org
Beware America our time is at hand!
5-20-2006
Steve Grable
Violence, destruction, fire, lawlessness, great loss, disease, filth, hunger and want is coming upon us.
Because of our false gods, too numerous to count,
Because of our lukewarmness to the one True God,
Because of our treatment of Israel,
Because of the spilling of innocent blood,
Because of sexual promiscuity,
Because of our pride over every small thing,
Because our greed is ever present,
Because we have perfected corruption on every level of society and exported it to every nation upon the earth. We have sowed the seeds of bitterness and hatred to the nations. Now from those seeds have sprung up a Whirlwind that one day soon will sweep this nation into utter chaos.
America will become a laughing stock, a non-player on the stage of world events
Some will mourn but most will cheer, applaud and rejoice that America has been reduced to the status of a Third World Country!
"But in the midst of affliction, there is great blessing!"
As a result of seeing our sin, repentance will break forth like a great dam, whose waters had been held back. But Now, suddenly, the tears of sorrow, sincere sorrow for our sin and Not our loss of comfort will ascend up the Throne of a Holy God. And He will hear
our petitions and forgive our sin. Then the "Fire of Revival" will spread throughout America and around the globe.
Millions will be touched by Him who sits upon the Throne. Even the youngest of believers will heal the sick and raise the dead, so that no man may find an opportunity to boast.
It will be dangerous times, and true believers will know one another by their fruits but many occasions, when meeting a stranger, one will give a verse and the other will finish the verse.
All types of miraculous events will occur. When there is little food, the people will pray and the food will be multiplied. (Economically it will remain to be a disaster, and scarcity of basic needs will be the norm) God's Spirit will be present and great joy in the midst of darkness will shine forth.
Divine meetings will take place with angels and will almost be a common occurrence.
Many will be translated by the power of the Holy Spirit from one location to another in order to fulfil God's purposes.
Word for Leadership in Church of America/ from intercessor in Ireland....Orla Duane
Please hear the Spirit of the Lord in this and not me. I know what the spirit of fear feels and looks like, but I tell you it is with the Great Fear of the Lord that I write, and submit this to you. My whole body shakes, as I can feel His fire burning on my face and on my hands. Do not take this lightly. Please know I love you my friends and family worldwide. Although this intercession has been specifically for America, I sense a shaking coming to His church in the USA, and then spreading around the world?
Written Saturday 17th September 2005 - between 3-4 PM (GMT)
With weeping, wailing, groaning and the hand of God on my shoulder, I've got to write to you. I don't say any of this lightly but as I write I am hearing the devastation of God's wrath let lose over America. I can hear weeping of mothers multiplied many times over, for their dead children. If only you could hear the weeping, and wailing, "Rachel weeping for her children for they were no more," (Oh God I don't want to say any of this.) He is waiting on even ONE person to stand in the gap and to apologise and repent on behalf of the Body of Christ; but it has to be a man in "office;" then it will lessen His judgements. It's like Daniel repenting for the sins of the nation, even though he as an individual didn't commit those sins. It's a symbolic thing.
There are three angels with three bowls of judgement to be loosed over the Body of Christ - over those in "leadership" if they don't repent. (I'm sorry to have to say this, but this is only one of what I heard and this is mild. I am not released to speak of the others yet. And have blocked my ears after hearing the words spoken by God. This "language" is very mild. Please don't joke about this). The Father's wrath burns and He is about to erupt with a Great Shaking. The Three judgements, specifically for Christian Leaders if true repentance does not come are:
1) Haemorrhoids
2) Genital warts
3) Oral thrush
But it will be of an epidemic proportion, and traditional medicine will not cure the problems. It will even make the news, and it will become the "butt" joke around the world.
I can see those three angels with those bowls lifted high ready to be poured out; waiting for God's signal. I see one placed over the Southern West Coast, the second over the Northern West Coast and the third somewhere in the Southern Midwest? (from studying a map, I would say Springfield Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois - that general area) In my spirit I sense a SHAKING of some kind with those bowls, a natural Earthquake, or Volcanic eruption. I am still seeing those dates, 9/18, 9/19, 9/20 with more emphasis on 9/19 and 9/20?? I wonder does it mean 9/19 - time wise in America, but perhaps 9/20 Irish time??? That 1 Samuel 9: 18, 19, 20 has more meaning now. The HEART being REVEALED - as I've heard the Father's spewing anger of how His "lead men" have treated His Son's Body. Especially the "hidden/secret" sins (lust) of the heart.
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Written Sunday 18th September 2005 5:42 PM (GMT)
He now shows me just why He burns with wrath, as I see the Father pick up a little girl around 7/8 years old. She is naked, with bruises and burn marks (like that of cigarette burns on her skin), in-fact her body looks grotesque, almost unrecognisable. Her face is deformed, all out of alignment. This little one looks like death, as if there is no hope of recovery of life, for her, as she is so bruised. I see the Father's overwhelming love for this child, and hear Him call her America, "My beautiful little girl. What have they done to you? What have they done? Why did they gang rape you and abuse you over, and over, and over again? My precious little girl. How could they? Look she is so bruised that she is frightened of ME, her FATHER. THIS IS WRONG. I WILL HAVE MY VENGEANCE ON THOSE WHO HAVE DONE THIS TO HER."
The Father's anger rages. I hear Him call His "leaders" to attention for He says, "This is what you have done, to MY daughter. In the spirit this is what your sinning has done. I entrusted you to mind and CARE for MY sheep, MY Son's Body, HIS Bride and Look? This is what I see, MY little Precious, Beautiful, Daughter America has been abused by YOU. THE PEOPLE I ENTRUSTED TO CARE AND MIND AND PROTECT HER. Oh, that's MY girl. LOOK at what YOU have done. LOOK."
I (Orla) cling to Jesus and I weep with Him, for now I can understand why the Father's rage is burning. He wants vengeance over what has taken place to His daughter America. And He is holding the leaders responsible. I see the love, tears and pain of THE FATHER over His little girl. He has her naked, bruised, deformed body wrapped in a silken, jewelled, blazing, white, light, filled blanket. I know it is no ordinary blanket; it is a very special blanket that He made, and now He tenderly wraps it around her, and He doesn't care that her weeping cuts and bruises are blood staining this blanket. He carries her as close to His chest as possible and whispers His love into her ear. But because she has been so abused she won't even open her hand to let HIM touch her, for so great has been the abuse and defilement that she has a distorted imagine of her TRUE FATHER.
Jesus says we must get some water, for her bruises to be cleansed and washed. I wonder where to go to find some water? I look at Jesus with tears in my eyes, as I don't know what to do? (I'm about 5 years old in this vision) He then whispers, "There is the water. Don't you see. It is your tears. That's what I need, I need yours and others tears to help wash and cleanse America." Now, a waterfall of tears come pouring out of my eyes for this little one. She looks so helpless. I want to tell her it will be alright, your safe now, your with Abba, and Jesus will make you Brand NEW. But I sense if I approach her, I will only scare her, for great has been the abuse. I kneel and let The Healer collect my tears; "take them Jesus, take them. I won't stop crying until you collect all the water you need."
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I sense this is a final warning call: I have heard Jesus weeping for His "lead men" praying, groaning, interceding for them to repent for what they have done to His Body, His Bride, The Father's little girl. But like that dream, warning, and Ezekiel 22 reading that Mike Bickle received. I too sense Jesus, saying, "I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none."
"At this moment, ISRAEL'S (America's) FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS." I Samuel 9:20 MSG
I have spent the past week, two weeks unable to leave my house, haven't watched TV, or read a paper. Had to leave my friends and family; couldn't even speak to them at times, for so great has been the spirit of intercession and His Holy fire burning deep within my belly. He has opened my mouth like a cork shooting up, I've even been scared of the holiness to the words I've uttered, as have those around me. He has then shut my mouth. I feel like Amos (Whose name means: burden-bearer) when God showed Him visions of His judgements, and then he (Amos) standing in the gap, praying that they wouldn't happen. This is what I've been doing. But He says, it's in your hands America ("lead men"). What will be your response?
God's Judgment On The USA
Teresa Seputis
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Some people have noticed that I have been silent about Huricane Katrina
and ensuing events. There is a reason for that, which I will explain in
a couple of paragraphs.
This writeup is more of a testimony of my experiences with God and what
He said to me during them than an official "thus sayeth the Lord" prophetic
word. Parts of what I heard was with my personal hearing instead of my
prophetic/ministry hearing. I am pretty good at hearing God's voice in my
personal life, but my ministry hearing is (of course) more accurate than
my personal hearing. This email is not an official prophetic word, but I
believe it is a message from God to us.
I first heard about Katrina and how it could destroy New Orleans on Sunday
afternoon, the day before the hurricane hit. I spent that evening and the
whole night in prayer and intercession and watching the weather channel. I
did not even go to bed that night. About 5:00 AM in the morning (before
Katrina had hit) the Lord had me go back and read a testimony I had written
ten years earlier about being in New Orleans when a differnt class 5 hurricane
was supposed to hit. That testiomy detailed some of the sins of the city and
then shared how I had interceeded. At that time, God had turned away that
hurricane (which suddenly dropped to a class 2 and turned to Florada). I had
not thought about or prayed for New Orleans since. Then exactly ten years
later (to the month), another class 5 hurricane was to hit New Orleans. God
showed me two things before the hurricane hit. The first was that what we
(myself and other intercessors who prayed for New Orleans in 1995) had not
maintained in prayer what we had gained in prayer and Satan had retaken the
ground. The second thing was that this a judgment of God and could not be
turned -- the first judgment of God to hit the USA. As a nation, we have
moved past being evaluated to being judged. That is not a good thing.
I wanted to drop what I was doing and just fast and pray and interceed for
my nation for several days. But God would not let me. I was scheduled to get
on a plane in a week and go to Asia, where I was to minister in three nations:
Hong Kong, Singapore and India. I had a lot of things I had to do to get
ready for that trip. God told me that I had to put aside my own business (my
nation and it's situation) and focus on His business (Asia). God has great
plans for Asia. I was shocked that He would say that to me, paritcularly
since 2 Chronicles 7:14 was fresh in my mind. So God reminded me of the time
when two of Aaron's sons burned unclean incense before the Lord in Leviticus
10. God struck them dead and then told Aaron and his surviving sons that
they could not mourn those deaths or go to the funeral; they had to stay in
the temple and serve the Lrod because His anointing was on them.
I obeyed God and did not press in to Him for a prophetic word for my nation
about this judgment and what we could do to prevent receiving another one.
God continued to lead and guide me personally, such as teling me to fill up
my car with gas Tuesday morning even though I still had 1/3 of a tank. I
obeyed him. I drove by the station again two hours after I filled up and
the price of gas had already gone up twenty cents a gallon -- in only two
hours! Then God told me that the disaster on New Orleans was not a judgment
against that city, but against my whole nation. He explained that our
economy was very dependent on the price of gas and that gas prices were going
to go way up and effect every aspect of the American economy.
I did not have a lot of time to ponder that because I I got on a plane and
went to Asia. God moved with great power there, especially in Hong Kong and
India. I had open visions with the Lord, I saw and internacted with angels
and there was also great releases of His power and anointing in my meetings.
It was incredible to be in the midst of what God was doing there.
The judgment on the USA almost seemed surrealn the midst of the glory of
God that I was exeriencing in Asia. Very few people asked me about Katrina
or the judgment of God on my nation. But when I was asked, God gave me little
tidbits of insight for my reply. I learned that the judgment was not against
my nation as a whole (though that will come if the people of God don't
prevent it). At this time, the judgment is on the church and our response
needs to be to repent and pray and humble ourselves before God (and possibly
before others as well -- something difficult for most Americans to do becuase
we are a proud people.)
As God showed me that, I would humble myself to those who asked me and tell
them that the Church in America had fallen under judgment because it had
fallen asleep and allowed the evil one to take over many areas of our nation.
There were still believers on fire for God -- in fact everyone I hang around
with is in that category and it is hard for me to relate to the luke-warm
group. But many in the USA have grown luke-warm and carnal and many believers
have become so corrupted by the world's values that it was hard to tell
believers from unbelievers just by looking at their lives and behavior. God
said that we need to humble ourselves and repent and begin living for Him
and putting Him first -- or even greater judgment would come.
When I was in India, an apostle I was working with told me about a prophecy
from Kim Clement that God was going to send three more judgments on the USA
before Halloween, and one of them was to my home state of California. Even
as I heard that, I began to pray and interceed that God would turn away the
California judgment. Something inside of me realy cried out to God for my
home state. It wasn't concernt for my personal well becing because I was
pretty sure that God would not destroy my own home in His judgment because
I actively serve and obey Him. But I wanted Him to spare my whole state.
Near the end of my trip, I came down with a bad chest cold and I came home
sick. Between that and the jetlag, I was totally non-functional my first
three days home. All I could do was sleep, I was even too sick to seek God
and pray about the judgment on the USA.
I have been home a little over a week now, and I am finally getting back in
the swing of things again. One of the things I have been doing these past
few days is praying about the judgment on my nation and asking God what we
believers can do to turn it. I believe that God wants us to respond to Him
in a certain way so that He is not forced to release more disasters on us.
I would like to be a prophetic voice to help my nation make the right response.
So far God hasn't given me a word for my nation, but He has been showing me
a lot of things personally. I would like to share some of that with you.
On Tuesday Oct 4, I received an email from someone I don't know in India
that called me a false prophet because I said that Sept 11 was NOT a judgment
of God. (That one wasn't, and most of the internationally known/respected
prophets heard the same thing from God that I did -- this was not a judgment
but a lifting of God's protection as a warning. I also heard that the USA
was being evaluated and could fall under judgment at the end of this
evaluation.)
I felt offended that this person would call me a false prophet and I took it
to the Lord. I was a bit surpised at the intensity of my offense, since I
have had misguided people call me a false prophet before -- dispensationalists
and others who dont' believe in the prophetic today. But this was different,
I was being accused of being a false prophet because of the content of a
message that God had given me.
At first I thougth I should repent of my offense (e.g., I figured that I was
responding in the flesh). But God later showed me that since this email
attacked the message itself (which was given to me by God), so it was accusing
Him of giving a false word. He did not like that. The offense I felt was not
simply my own, I was also sensing His feelings about this email. God does not
like to have words put into His mouth, He wants to choose precisely what is
said. Likewise, He does not like it when people say that one of His messages
is a false prophesy.
The Lord told me that I had indeed heard Him correctly about Sept 11. Back
in 2001, we were under evaluation and had not yet reached the place of
judgement. Unfortunately, that has changed for my nation and we have now
fallen under His judgement.
Then God began to show me some things about the seiers of hurricanes that
hit Florada last year. He said that those were not a judgment but were a
natural outgrowth of Satan's control over the area. When the enemy possesses
a territory, he fulfills his nature to "kill, steal and destroy" in that
territory. One evidence of the devil's control was that case where the lady
on life support was killed by her husband having her disconnected against
her parent's wishes. That was a big contraversy, but in the end he got his
way and the woman was killed. That was just one of many evidences of the
enemy's strongholds over several areas of Florada. The series of natural
disasters was yet another evidence. Since the United States was under
evaulation preceeding judgment, God's protective hand was lifted and Satan
was freer to bring his destruction to his territory. [This is not to say
that all of Florada is under the control of Satan. There are goldly
strongholds as well and some important ministries are based there.] But
the sad fact is that satan has claimed much territory in Florada and that
is part of why he was able to bring those disasters there.
The first judgment of God on the USA was Katrina. Note that hurricane Katrina
did not catch us by surprise. We had advanced warning that it was coming, but
we were totally powerless to stop it. We had enough time to evacuate the city
and an evacuation order was given by government officials. But due to the
pride and arrogance of the American people, many choose to ignore that order
and paid for it with their lives. Evem after the disaster, our sinful nature
showed it's ugly head in the lawelessness, looting and violence that ensued
before the national guard was in place.
Many Americans watched that on televeion and were horrified by what they saw
in New Orleans. Many said to themselves, "That is not me, I would never act
like that." But the ruling spirit over the USA is a hedonistic, prideful and
rebellious, as well as self-seeking and self-serving spirit. And what we saw
in New Orleans is a very ugly and extreme manifestation of the ruling spirit
over our nation. Many of us have it control us to some degree or another just
by virture of having been raised in this value system. (I am not trying to
justify my nation's sin... we need to repent of it and get right with God.
We need to make a fresh commitment to His Lordship and a new commitment to
put Him first and obey Him in all things. We need to replace pride/arrogance
with humility and disobedience/rebellion with obedience to God.)
As God showed me these things, I began to realize that maybe I could be part
of the problem, as well as some other deeply committed believers. I had
sort of assumed that the judgment on the church did not really apply to me
because I was His committed and commisioned servant. I saw myself sort of
like Jeremiah who was set free from prison by the Babylonians and not taken
into captivity wiht the rest of Isreal. I assumed that God would protect His
faithful servants from the judgment He was bringing on our nation. I do
believe He will probably take care of His faithful servants as He releases
judgment on the USA, because thre are a lot of very committed Christians
still left in this country.
Personaly, I have been in an obedience covenent with God for a great many
years now and I am deelpy committed to obeying Him because I love Him. In
fact, I have been traveling around the globe leading Christians in many
different cultures into that same covenent and commitment to obey God
because they love Him. And God usually falls with great power on those who
make this commitment, filling them afresh with His spirit and empowering
them to walk it out. I believe I walk in the Lord's favor and that my life
pleases Him.
But then I looked back on my own life the past week. I had a horrible flight
home from Singapore. Some of the most annoying people in the world were
seated near me and they harrassed me much of the 16 hour flight home. I got
grouchy as this continued and then I started struggling with forgiving them.
Then I started to feel guilty because of my attitude toward them, knowing
God wanted me to walk in love and forgiveness. But I did not want to forive --
I wanted something bad to happen to them. I began to feel so ashamed of my
attitude that I started to avoid God for a couple of days. I was sick and
jetlagged, so I spent most of my time sleeping. But when I wasn't sleeping,
I vegetated in front of the television instead of seeking God. I am sure God
was not happy with my attitude on the plane or with my behavior (seeking TV
instead of Him) for my first couple of days that I was home. I began to
realize that I was not as righeous as I had thougth I was.
Of course, I have repented and gotten right with God. By Sunday Church
service (5 days after I go thome), there was nothing left of the rebellion or
separation or addiction to television or failing to pursue Him. But the point
is that I came home from a trip and fell into attitude sin, and I drifted out
of that intimacy with Him. I considered myself a faithful and commitment
servant, and yet I clearly was not without sin. I realized that when God
looked at the church in the USA (evaluating us before juding us), He also
looked at me and other people in my church and Chiristian community who
consider themselves deeply committed to Him.
I began to wonder what God saw when He examimed us. What did God see when
He looked at me? What about when He looked at my pastor or a number of
other people who I personaly know who are deeply committed to the Lord and
serving Him? Obviously He did not see enough in us to turn away His
judgment. I remembered how Abraham negotiated with God for Sodom and Gomorrah
to be spared if there were only ten righteous people there. I can come up
with more than ten names of righteous people in my own church alone.
So I began to ask Him what was going on that allowd the USA to fal linto
judgement. What did He see when He looked at us? I began to wonder if I was
part of the problem and how much I could be a part of the solution. So I
began to ask Him point blank what I personally could do, how I could
personally relate to Him, so that the judgment on the United States might
be averted.
His answer surprised me a bit. He suggested I come before the judgment seat
of Christ and let the Lord examine me.
I have had some judgment seat experiences with the Lord -- I picked up that
comcept from Rick Joyner's prophetic vision "The Final Quest" some years ago.
The idea is an extension of 1 Corinthians 11:31, "For if we would judge
ourselves, we would not be judged." The idea is to ask Jesus to help us
examine our hearts/lives to find the things that He doesn't like, and then
work on changing them. That way when we apear before His throne to have our
lives/works evaluated after we die (the rewards judgment), we will have less
things to "get in trouble for" becuase we have already dealt with them with
His help. The way that this has worked out for me is coming before Jesus'
throne and having Him examine my heart/motives/actions/etc. At first the
concept terrified me, I was so afraid of "flunking out." But as I began to
have experiences with the Lord's judgments, I began to learn that His
judgments are very good and I also began to get free from some bondages.
But the idea of coming before His Judgment throne in the context of having
my nation judged sort of scared me a bit. What if God found things in me
that He did not like and it reflected badly for my nation? That sort of
worried me. I was not sure that was what God was talking about, but the
idea occurred to me and it scared me. That was about 7:00 AM Wednesday
during my morning prayer. So I agreed to His invication and found msyelf
before the Lord's judgement seat.
This time it was a bit different. Instead of being in an open vision and
clearly seeing the Lord, I was strongly surrounded by the Lord's presence
but could not see anything. The Lord began speaking to me. He asked me a
lot of questions -- I don't think that all-knowing God was seeking
information from me. So I tried to open my heart and see what He was showing
me through those questions. Some of what we discussed were areas that I did
relatively good in. That kind of surprised me because I really expected Him
to focus on my weaknesses and short-comings, not no the areas of my strenghts.
Then He said something really interesting to me. This is a paraphrase, but
He said, "Teresa, I know man because I created man. What I am asking of
people in this judgment is not perfection -- I know man is sinful and fallen.
What I am looking for is hearts that are committed to me and demonstrations
of My Lordship in most areas of their lives. I am looking for a godly and
committed people, ones who obey Me and who honor Me."
I was starting to think, "This might not be so bad. he is not being os hard
to please..." Then God began to talk to me about some areas where I did not
measure up quite so well. This included the use of some of my leisure time
(vegetating in front of the TV when I was upset instead of seeking Him), and
it also included few people I had not fully forgiven from the bottom of my
heart, etc.
This was starting to take a really long time. In the past, I had never be in
front of His judgment seat for more than about half an hour at a time. But
I had already been in this prayer time for over an hour.
Then the Lord began to ask me "what would you do in this case?" scenarios.
They were things to test the condition of my heart. I am sure God already
knew the condition of my heart. I suspect He was more showing it to me in
response to the questions I'd asked Him earlier. Of course I was tring to
answer Him as honestly as possible (even if I did not particularly like the
answer. I mean, who wants to try to lie to God? It won't work!)
At one point I asked Him if it would be cheating to ask the Holy Spirit to
help me. He said, "No." So I prayed and asked the Holy Spirit to help me
respond in ways thet God would like - even if that meant changing my heart
or my expectations as needed. Then God reminded me that I ws still being
judged. I asked Him if He was judging my prayer. He said "Yes." I asked
Him how I did on that, and He did not answer my question -- but I had the
distinct impression that He was smiling.
Two hours had gone by now. I spent part of that just waiting on Him. But
He did not seem to be done. At one point I began to pray very passionately
asking Him to turn the judgment from California and was asking Him if there
was anything I could do or any way I could respond to Him that would help
convice Him to turn it. (There is a prophecy out Kim Clement that this
judgement will hit California before Halloween of this year.) Ever since I
heard about that prophesy in India, it has been a big desire/passion of
mine for God to turn that particular judgment on my state.
At one point God seemed to speak to me. I am not 100% sure this was really
God and not the desires of my own heart -- sometimes it is hard to sort them
out when we desire something very passionately. But I believe I heard God
tell me that He would lift the judgment on California in response to the
prayers of His people. He also told me that there would always be certain
types of minor natural disasters in California, earthquakes and the like.
People would always be comeing along and saying that those were His judgment
when they are merely natural geographic activity for this area. But when/if
God does send a judgment, there were be no doubt in anyone's mind that this
is from Him as opposed to just another natural phenoneum.
After two hours of prayer, I needed to get on with my day, but God did not
seem to be done "judging me." I finally asked Him about it. He told me that
He was still watching and evaluating me. I got the impression that would go
on for a very long time. I asked Him if it was ok if I went to do this thing
for my husband and He said yes. So I left the prayer room and the
overwhelming sense of the Lord's presence began to fade. I got busy with
vaious things during the day, but spent a lot of it in prayer.
The next morning (Thursday) when I got up, the Lord told me that He was still
watching me. I guess the mesage He is giving me is that His juding and
evaluating His people is not a one time event, but a process as we walk out
our daily christian lives before Him. I know I can be on "godo behavior"
(any of us can) for a short period of time. But the question is, "Can we
substain it?" God is not looking at what we look like when we try to
impresss Him. He is looking at who His people really are and how we really
live our lives day-in and day-out. Are we really living for Him, is He
really Lord of our lives? Are we really about our Father's business, or
are we doing our own things? Are we honoring and obeying Him in our day to
day functioning when no one is around to watch us and we are not trying to
act spiritual?
The next morning, friday (e.g, today), God woke me at 3:30 AM and the
judgment process continued for another several hours. Part of it 3was
humbling, but part of it drew me int much closer intimacy with Him. I
don't know exactly where we are going in my judgment experience as it is
not over yet... But I do know this: as His people, we need to lay aside
our own agendas, we need to humble ourselves and pray and ask Him to heal
our land.
Quick Summary:
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The United States was in a period of evaluation for a few years, during
which time God's protective hand was not on us like it had been on us
before. That allowed tradegies like Sept 11 and some of the terrible
series of hurricanes to hit Florada. But now the period of evaluation is
over and we, as a nation, have fallen under God's judgment.
The first of these judgments to hit was Huricane Katrina -- where we knew
it was coming but were powerless to stop it. This judgment is (at this
time) more on the church than the unsaved. Depending on how we respond
to God, this will effect what happens next in our nation. We can turn this
judgment if we respond to Him properly.
God's desire, of course, is for His people to repent, humble themselves,
recommit to His Lordship in their lives and for them to pray for their
nation. Even those of us who walk pretty close to the Lrod and who feel
the judgment doesn't apply to them personally need to be examing their
heart before the Lord and also praying for their nation.
If the church does not respond as per 2 Chronicles 7:14, I believe that
the Lord's judgment will move from the church to the ungodliness and
unrighteousness of the unsaved and things will get much worse for us.
People of God, especially those who love Him with all of yoru heart, let
us apply 2 Chronicles 7:14 to our nation before God is forced to discipline
us again...
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and
pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will
hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
- teresa
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Monday Feb 14, 2005
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This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis (ts@godspeak.org)
A Word For the United States Of America
America, America, oh how I desire to bless you! There was a time when you, as a nation, bore My name and honored Me in all you did. But the enemy has come in with much corruption and deception and has turned many from the paths of righteousness. He has risen up against you with cries
of judgment and condemnation. He stands before My throne, at times, crying out to Me that I destroy you as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
It is not My heart to destroy you; no, it is not. My heart is to restore you -- but you must be willing and you must cooperate with Me in the process. You must turn to Me and yield to My Spirit as I begin to sweep through your nation once again. I am not calling to the unrighteous at this time, but to those who call themselves by My name. Children, respond to Me. Humble yourselves before Me and lay aside the great knowledge that you claim you have -- and learn of Me. Learn My ways and walk in them. Learn what it is to be in intimacy with Me, to give Me a
priority of your time. Learn what it is to walk in holiness and purity.
Learn what it is to speak words of life and blessing instead of words of grumbling or complaining or cursing.
It is My heart and My desire to restore this nation to once again be a nation that is called by My name and that brings glory to Me. I desire to unleash great power and great authority in My church. I desire that My people lay aside the snares of the world and wholeheartedly embrace
My ways. I desire that My people become a healing balm for their nation.
It is not My heart and My desire that so many die of AIDS and of cancer.
I want to raise up a church that walks in My power and love, that this church might bring healing to their nation. I want to release such supernatural power and healing that those who are sick will flock to My
people to be healed. I want to release a righteous freedom and liberty, that will break off the bondages and oppressions of the enemy over those who do not yet know Me. I want to turn the lost within your borders to
Myself and release great revival in your midst.
I am calling the lost to Myself within your nation. Already you have seen My Spirit stirring among them, startling even the secular news media with
their desire to return to family values. Do you not recognize what that is? That is My Spirit moving on the people of this nation, stirring their hearts and causing them to yearn for My righteousness. I have already
stirred Myself on your behalf. Now, My people, I ask you to rise up in response to what My Spirit is doing. Join Me, My children, in reaching your nation.
Cleanse your garments and rend your hearts and respond to Me. As you run to Me, I will not turn you away and I will not reject you. No child, I will respond to you and draw you even closer. It is time to put aside the distractions that keep you from Me. Seek Me and you will surely find Me --
and not only you My children, but your whole nation. For if My people who are called by My name will seek Me with their whole heart then I will restore their nation. I will cause holiness and godly values to rise up in all sectors of your land, even among the lost. And I will cause the
healing flow of My love to come forth from My own as a sweet fragrance that will reach those who do not yet know Me.
No, America, I do not speak words of death over you at this time. I speak words of life and release, words of healing and restoration. Respond to Me, America, that I might do what I desire in your midst. I desire to once again cover you with My wings and place My protection back over you.
I desire to cause you to rise up as a great nation in Me. You have written on your currency "In God We Trust" -- and I desire to restore that trust.
I desire to restore faith in your land. I desire to do great things in your midst. I desire to heal your economy and I desire to bring My glory
to your shores. I desire to make you great in Me, that you might bring glory to My name.
And America, I will do all these things for you if only My people will seek Me with their whole hearts, commit to obey Me and walk in My ways.
Turn back to Me, My children of this nation, with your whole heart. Then I will turn to you with My whole heart and rise up on behalf of your nation to restore it, to heal its people and to bring life and revival to your land.
So respond to Me now, My children, and honor Me in all you do. My plans for you are good and they are life. So turn from your own ways and embrace them. Then I will bless you as a people and I will bless your nation for your sake. And I will bring My glory once again to your land.
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Teresa Seputis
GodSpeak International; PO Box 4000; Hayward CA 94540-4000; USA
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