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Betrayal – a Sign of the Last Days

One of the words the Lord gave me for 2011 is that there will be “great betrayal – churches and relationships” this year.  I take no pleasure at all in delivering this word, yet it is an important one.  While some of us have had more experience with betrayal, personal and corporate, others have never had to live through these kinds of assaults on our hearts.

Maybe that’s why the Lord wants me to warn you all about it.  I could be the poster child!  When you have come through something like betrayal, God authorizes and expects you to help others come through it.  Like Rick Joyner told Lori:  you will take the stick the devil beat you with and beat him back!

Your victory is never for you alone.  The Church and the Kingdom of God is a building made of living stones – each one supplying something the other one needs.

In Luke 21, Jesus is telling His disciples what the signs of the end times will be and it is here that He says “Even those closest to you—your parents, brothers, relatives, and friends—will betray you.”

That time is here, folks.

It’s impossible for me to think of any situation that would arise where one family member might betray another, but it will happen – the Bible tells us so.  But even in the Church there is going to be great treachery against one another.  This is exactly the opposite of what the Lord prayed for us before He left this earth.  Jesus prayed in John 17:21 “I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one…”

Bob Hartley is a prophet of HOPE.  When he was here recently, he told us that Hope defends you, fights for you and helps you heal.  He said we would be Hope Craftsmen (and women) here at Morningside.  This is my heart’s desire.  He said people would come in and be healed and then be launched out to help others.

Bob said:  “I saw this Hope in God for Community come forth like in Nehemiah’s day.   Jesus brought me back to my catholic neighborhood where I grew up and showed me how I had 100 families that fought for me on every level:  for my physical, emotional and spiritual well-being, and for my calling.  He shared that this is the type of community that He (Jesus) would restore again, like the early Church in Acts 2:42-47.  This warmed my heart with hope as I reflected on how much the community of my childhood had meant to me and how I had prayed for this same type of community for my children.”

Bob said that we, like Nehemiah, will become “Hope Craftsmen” and direct the people to build right where they live, where their hearts flourish, and people will be strategically placed here.  My vision for Morningside has always been that we would become a “Refuge” and a place of restoration.  Freely I have received, and my desire is to freely give HOPE to others.

Each of us ought to have genuine compassion for others who have spiritual or physical hurts.  We have to move out of the swamps of backbiting and tearing down.

In the Refuge, we will love each other, we will have each other’s backs, and we will care for one another!  God is raising up many places of Refuge for the Times of Trouble ahead.  Betrayal may drive you to one of these Refuges, but HOPE will sustain you through it!

We must purpose in our hearts to become “Hope Craftsmen”!

Days of Transition Ahead

We have had several prophets visit Morningside recently.  One common theme in their messages is that the Lord’s people will be going through a transition in the coming year – a very narrow place.   This narrow place is allegorically likened to the birth canal.  When a woman is in labor, the most crucial moments preceding birth are when the baby enters a very narrow transitional passage called the birth canal.

The birth canal allegory has been used to explain many spiritual transition processes the Lord takes His people through.  Transition is another term used to explain the time period between when the baby enters the birth canal, the movement through it, and just before the triumphant arrival!

Every time this allegory is used, there is one thing that is emphasized – the narrowness of the path and the pain involved in the process.  But there is no other way except THROUGH!  Remember, we are going somewhere and we will get there if we just endure!

The prophets are saying that 2011 is going to be a year of transition for the Lord’s people.  Spiritually, what the prophets are speaking of is a process of God’s people moving through a very uncomfortable time ahead.  But, we must go through if we are to go on to the victory ahead.

While we may soon feel the intensity of the coming press in the Revelation days ahead, we must keep the Glorious Prize in mind – the arrival of our King!

A Drug Worse Than Marijuana

I know about the effects of drug use.  I know because I experienced those effects in my own life for a number of years.  Most of the drugs I ingested, like marijuana, put me in a stupor.  I liked the stupor – it shoved aside any resemblance of reality in my chaotic life and gave me a false sense of comfort.  It often made me sleepy and lethargic. 

Christians are doing drugs today, but their drug is not marijuana.  Today, we have an even more damaging drug that Christian people everywhere ingest every single day.  It is not illegal, but it should be.  It is freely distributed in our homes and even in our churches. 

It is a drug called “apathy”. 

Though the signs of the times are all around us, “Happy Home” and “Happy Church” lacks the motivation necessary to sound the alarm that we will soon experience changes in our lives and in our world that we must be ready for.  We are on the precipice of a huge alteration of our reality.   Some of us need to enter a spiritual ‘rehab’.

This ministry wants you to be prepared.  We are sounding the alarm.  Will you get free of this drug called “apathy” today?  Will you free yourself so that you can help your children and other loved ones be ready for Times of Trouble?

If you belong to Jesus, you are not appointed to His wrath.  We are assured of this.  But even those who are His are warned over and over in the scriptures to watch for the signs of His coming and be ready!

Don’t ingest the reassuring babble coming from our government, the media, and some pulpits.  Prepare yourself and your family and be ready spiritually and physically.

We love you, we really do!

~Lori

One Day Soon

It may surprise some of  you, but the reality is that we are already in a war, a spiritual war, right here on Earth.  The kingdom of God is being viciously opposed by the forces of evil.  This war is real with very high stakes – the salvation of men, women, boys and girls all over the world.   As the Church, we are new soldiers in this very old war.

Every day we are moving closer and closer to the time of Jesus’ return.    This is not a time to sit on the sidelines and watch as a spectator.  We are entering a season of acceleration. Continue reading →