October 2004

Blessings to you!

Once again I am late with the newsletter, but there is just no way, when I am so much on the road in ministry, that I can write and be as punctual as I used to be. I am praying for a lap top that is compatible with the Dell I have in the office. That would enable me to get them out on time wherever I may be. It would also enable me to get the prayer alerts for the Website to Kin more often than I do.

This month is half gone already, and so much has happened. Let us all give thanks to the Lord for vindicating President Bush. The enemies of the Lord can no longer say that he is an illegal president or that he stole the election as they have since the 2000 election. He won convincingly, leaving most of the Europeans bewildered. They can now see that the war in Iraq did not play the decisive role, for our president owes his victory to Almighty God, the Christians, Pro-Lifers, and advocates of family values.  Conservatives were also given additional seats in both the House and the Senate. America ’s Christian heart has truly spoken loud and clear. To God be all the glory, for great things He has done!

There is great fear in the camp of the Lord’s enemies here in the US , as well as in some of the nations of the world, since the re-election of President Bush. There are spirits of anger and hatred mounting here with great vengeance. We must stay on the wall! The Lord has been telling many of us that there is a plot against the life of our president, and one of the culprits is working very close to him.

Much of the media, both here and abroad, are shocked at the political influence of American Evangelicals. I do believe that Christians here in this country now realize that if they will make a strong stand for righteousness, and allow their voices to be heard, their prayers will be answered. God will do what has to be done to turn this country around. Perhaps through this election we have challenged Europeans to make a stand for righteousness. I pray so!

We can thank God for another major victory. Textbooks in schools all across the State of Texas will now promote Traditional Marriage. The State Board of Education approved the new books that will clearly state that marriage is a union of one man and one woman. If that can happen in Texas , it can happen in any other state. With God all things are possible.

I thank God that here in the State of Florida , the Pro-family movement was given a major victory. Now the law will require consulting a parent before a minor can have an abortion. The language in the new law attempts to address all of the issues a radical federal judge could use to overturn the law, so it should make the amendment difficult to be challenged by abortionist activists.

We can thank God, too, for all eleven Marriage Amendments passed by a wide margin. To God be all the praise for the guidance, strategies, and the strength to fight and win this battle. Adonai Tz’vahot!

It Has Been A Frustrating Year!

In thirty years of ministry, I have never received as many phone calls, emails, and letters as I did throughout this past year, up to and including the day before elections this month. They came from distraught Christians. Christians who were so disturbed because of all the compromise and political correctness they had seen the past four years, and greatly disturbed because President Bush was pressuring Israel to break covenant with Almighty God, by dividing up His Land and displacing thousands of His people.

I was one of those! I did not want to stand shoulder to shoulder with anyone who is leading two nations in to conflict with Almighty God. And like all the others, I I could not stand with, or support, the enemies of God, and His Holy Word, either. I could not stand with anyone who chooses to destroy babies, and promote homosexual marriage. My advice to everyone who called was to stay before the Lord, and wait on Him to tell them exactly what He would have them to do, which He did. One after the other has called me to say that they heard the Lord say something like, “I will hold President Bush accountable for all that he has said and done, and I will hold you accountable for the way you vote.” Each one knew deep in their spirit that they were to trust God and vote for President Bush. What a faithful God we serve!

All the while all of this was going on, the Lord had me out on the road bringing His people face to face with that which so many of us were struggling with. I was sent out with the sole purpose of making Christians aware of that which is extremely displeasing to God, and call them to repentance and intercession. Praise the Lord, for I saw one congregation after the other in deep genuine repentance before the Lord. And God remained faithful to His Word to all of us! He poured out a blessing on each congregation, and He granted us mercy on Election Day.

The Battle Has Just Begun!

Just one day before Election Day, President Bush decided to stand with Vice President Cheney in support of civil unions, leaving the option to each individual state. Nevertheless, the Lord had spoken, and everyone voted as they had been led to do, simply trusting the Lord with all the rest. President Bush was re-elected!

In his acceptance speech, we all noticed that he thanked everyone but God. Immediately following the speech, November 3^rd, PM Tony Blair began to apply pressure on President Bush to deal with Israel , saying, “The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is the single most pressing political challenge on our world today.”

The following day, November 4^th, former President Bill Clinton weighed in on the subject applying a little more pressure. Immediately following his statement, President Bush said, “I think it is very important for our friends the Israelis to have a peaceful Palestinian State living on their border. It’s very important for the Palestinians to have a peaceful, hopeful future.”

The very same night, November 4^th, just three days after Christians all across the country cast their vote for him, he had Secretary of State, Colin Powell, host an annual banquet celebrating the Muslim holiday, Ramadan. There were some 150 honored guests from the nations representing Islam to whom the US Government promoted hospitality and good will. Furniture was moved to lay down mats on the floor of the room outside the State Department’s Ben Franklin Dining Hall, so they could pray to Allah before nightfall broke their traditional fast of Ramadan. After reminding everyone present that President Bush is the first American President to promise the establishment of a Palestinian State, Mr Powell closed by saying, “... in the United States, the nations you represent will find no better friend and partner.”

Bill Koenig, of the White House Press Corp, and a dear brother in the Lord, said, “Point taken that Mr. Powell was reaching out to Islam with a public relations spin on the war on terror. But to say that Muslim nations, the vast majority of which are trying to destroy America for its Christianity and support of Israel , “will find no better friend or partner” is quite frankly outrageous! To open the State Department as a prayer room to some fictitious moon god, invented by Mohammed, is sacrilege.”

The following day, November 5^th, US and EU officials met to begin to revive the “Road Map.” The French, Germans, and British were among those who attended. On November 6^th, John McCain weighed in applying more pressure. At the same time President Bush’s father was being interviewed by BBC and said, “PM Tony Blair is 100% correct and he will find the president a willing and able partner.” Then, following his interview came “Give it all away, Shimon Peres!

After Arafat’s death was finally confirmed, President Bush said, “The United States of America will be more than willing to help to build the institutions necessary for a free society to emerge so that Palestinians can have their own state. The division is two states, a Palestinian State , and Israel living side by side in peace.” 

Bill Koenig said, “The President’s intentions could very likely accelerate End Time Prophecy by coalescing all the nations against Israel , forcing her to divide her covenant land in the name of peace. God promises in Zechariah 12:3 “I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone to all the peoples; all who would heave it away will be cut in pieces.” God also promises in Joel that He will judge the nations who divided the Land of Israel . America needs to stand with Israel , not divide her, for in division is judgment.”

This is the way that it has gone since Election Day 2004. This is not the time for any of us to sit back and relax. It is time for us to spring forth in to our calling. Get out of bed when He calls us to arise in the night. Watch and pray! We must be prepared for what lies ahead. Our president is going to come face to face with the Holy Fire of God for what we are doing to His Land and His people, the Jews. The Lord is saying, “ America , you are a proud nation, and you will be humbled, that you might be saved!”      
“Many of you will be terribly grieved by the devastation and losses you will witness in the days ahead. You must grow strong in My Word! Grow in the knowledge of Me, My love, and My mercy! You must understand that My judgments are My love, greatly provoked to jealousy.”

“You must choose this day whom you will serve! Will you serve Me or will you serve mammon? Will you serve Me or will you serve yourself? All of you will have to make a decision for or against Me.”

“I do not want you to fear the days ahead, no matter what you see! Just trust Me! I AM asking you to lay down your life to pick up Mine! This I will require of all who follow Me! If you want to go your own way and follow self, then you will be in direct opposition to My will.”

Let’s Talk About the Prophetic!

I’ve been fielding so many questions lately concerning those in leadership positions within the Body of Messiah, especially those who minister prophetically. Quite honestly, I’ve wondered why those questions have been so long in coming forth.

 For a long time now, the Lord has been warning the prophets. He has been more than patient and longsuffering, giving all of us plenty of time to repent, lay down our own agendas, and take up His. Judge ourselves that we be not judged! Needless to say, His warnings have been virtually ignored, so now the Lord is in the process of exposing all sin, and uncovering all that has been hidden. Judgment has begun in the House of the Lord, just as He said that it would.

It’s been a little more than a year ago when the Lord told me, “Several of the National Prophetic Ministries will be shaken, and a couple of them are in danger of completely falling.”  At that time, He went on to tell me that the prophets were about to be inspected by His Spirit to determine if they are seeking their own gain, prophesying from their own spirit, seducing through flattery, marketing their anointing, and/or thwarting the growth of others. He told me at that time that all hype and excessive marketing would be targeted. He went on to say, “I will no longer tolerate the greed that is in My House! There will be no more buying or selling! My House is a House of Prayer.”

He went on to say that those of us who have been raised up by Him and Him alone, His way, not man’s way, would be sent to those in need of correction, and the way that His sent ones (nameless, faceless people) are received will determine the fate of those to whom they are sent. He went on to say that those who do not believe that a woman can function as a prophet or an apostle will have an anointed woman of God sent to them. I heard Him say, “Who do they think they are to tell Me who I can send to them? My Word shall be carried by anointed men and women alike. My authority will be behind the Words they speak!”

It was back in the mid eighties when the Lord began to make me aware of the manipulation and greed within the leadership of the Body of Messiah. One of our well known ministers sent out letters of desperation telling all of us that he had to have, I believe it was eight million dollars, in a given period of time or the Lord was going to strike him dead. As I was reading the letter in absolute shock, I heard the Lord say very calmly, “File 13!”

Well, I didn’t let it alone. I was troubled by such a statement, so I asked the Lord what it was all about. He told me point blank that He was dealing with that minister because he had thousands upon thousands of dollars invested outside His Kingdom. He wanted him to bring some of that money out of the world system and invest it in to His Kingdom where He had need of it. Instead of the minister obeying the Lord, he decided to make a desperate plea to God’s people for the amount of money the Lord was calling him to release. The Lord told me that what the minister was doing was passing his conviction upon the Church. From that time on, I knew that I had to depend upon the Lord to tell me where to give and how much to give. After all, it was His money, and He should be able to direct us as to where He wants it to go.

On October 5^th, 2004 a donor alert was issued regarding an international Christian Television network based here in the US . The alert is asking donors to withhold their contributions citing first of all, the luxurious life styles of the couple who own the network, annual salaries taken from the ministry of $750,000.00 and the fact that the ministry holds more than $230 million in US Treasure bonds, and more than 30 million in cash reserves. The auditors have asked why the network continues to solicit donations when they presently have cash in short term and long term investments of about 280 million dollars.

As of this writing the couple has refused to answer all questions concerning their luxurious life style, and release all the consolidated audited financial statements, “making it impossible to fully and accurately analyze the financial operations of the ministry on behalf of the donors.” This network is viewed by more than five million households in the US alone each week. That is more than the other three competitors all put together.

Many of our well known ministers appear on that network, and praise the couple, while many of His prophets prostitute their anointing by giving of themselves to preach and manipulate the television audience to give, give, give, to that particular ministry. They don’t just prostitute their anointing, but they profane the Name of the Lord. The sad part of this is that those of us who take no salary from the ministry we have poured so much of ourselves in to, and have been given steward of, will suffer because of what that ministry has been doing. Nevertheless, I thank God that He is cleansing His House.

It has not been that long ago since two ministers, one heading a national ministry, and the other an international ministry died for some of the same reasons. One died of an unexplainable heart attack in middle age, and the other died from fast spreading cancer. Both of these ministers had been warned by the prophets, and ignored the warnings of the prophets, continuing to fleece the sheep. I’ve never seen so much corruption and deception as I saw in their respective ministries. One actually ended up becoming a cult. Some of the sheep who were involved in these two ministries, are still in terrible bondage yet today.

Quite some time ago, the Lord laid one of the well known prophets on my heart for prayer. I prayed and prayed for him until I was finally released. I was told that he had had a heart attack. However, just a few weeks ago I received an email from three ministers telling me this same prophet had been involved in a homosexual relationship and was an alcoholic. When I read their email I was absolutely stunned. This prophet had been one of the few who would speak whatever God gave him to speak regardless of the consequences. Even though he was criticized by some of the other well known prophets for doing so, He told them that when God gave him something to speak he would speak it, and he did!

When the ministers sent the email out, they shared that they had known this for quite some time. They said that they had been working with the prophet so he could be restored, but to no avail. When he continued to resist them, and they heard deception coming from his mouth, they knew that they had to make the truth known for they had always supported him and everyone knew it. They did not want anyone to receive anything from the prophet that would cause them to be hurt or deceived.

On the heels of that shocker, the Lord called me to intercede for a Prophetic Conference, which I did. At that time the Lord told me that He was going to issue a call for repentance. So I prayed that there would be deep and genuine repentance from the leadership as well as all those in attendance. The next thing I know, I received an email from another brother sharing a lot of what went on at the conference I had been praying for. I found out at that time that he was the one the Lord had sent to the leadership to issue the call to repentance, however it was all to no avail. As this brother described a little of what had gone on in the conference, I felt sick. So I took it to prayer.

No sooner did I begin to pray about it, when I received emails from three different  intercessors who had been at the conference. The three of them were not there together, but each one had felt led to leave the conference because of all that was happening. One of the intercessors said to me, “There was revelry, Myrna!”  Another one spoke of the suggestive dancing. In short, knowing these intercessors as I do, I have to believe what they told me. It is no wonder the Lord was calling this group to repent!

There is one thing about the well known prophets that the Lord has pointed out to me again and again. They do not hold each other accountable. Nor do they accept correction from anyone they look down upon as being of lesser status, such as nameless, faceless people the Lord is sending out today. The Lord told me that their pride will not allow that to happen. He said that He is dealing with both their pride and their arrogance. He said that most of them are in love with themselves and their own self importance.

Now despite the fact that the Lord had sent this brother in to the conference to speak with the leadership, and give to them the Lord’s call to repentance, as per usual, the messenger became the target. He was criticized by one for being confrontational, and by another for being judgmental. Since I don’t know this brother personally, I can only go by what the Lord shared with me.

The Lord took me to Ezekiel 9 where He took the prophet Ezekiel by the hair of the head and made him look at the sin in His Temple. Then He sent Ezekiel to speak what He had given him, no matter how angry they became when they heard him. He said, “I have made him just as hard as they are hard!” Last but not least, the Lord said, “They had to kill the messenger so they didn’t have to receive the message!”  He said to me, “He shook the dust off his shoes when He left them just as I told him to do!”

During one of my fasts, the Lord was speaking to me about His End Time Elijahs, and He said, “These are times of confrontation! My End Time Elijahs will be used by Me to challenge those involved in the occult, those trying to sit on the fence, those with one foot in My Kingdom and one foot in the world. They will call them to a point of decision! He went on to say that His End Time Elijahs will be used by Him to confront the Ahabs or weak leaders who are tolerating Jezebel. They will also be used to confront the hirelings!

The Lord is raising up and sending out those He has trained and prepared for such a time as this. They will be used to confront sin, and call people to repentance! The Body of Messiah has a long way to go until she is without spot or wrinkle like she must be.

The Spirit of the Lord is grieved because so many of His prophets have failed Him miserably. They speak peace when there is no peace! He says, “I have given them no message, yet they prophesy! If they had listened to Me, they would have spoken My Words, and turned My people from their wicked ways. Do they think I cannot see what they do? My true messengers faithfully proclaim, My every Word. Does not My Word burn like fire? Is it not like a hammer that smashes the rock to pieces?

I can recall how upset the Lord was with the prophets after 9/11. Many of them still say that was a demonic attack on America . At that time, the Lord was sharing with me a lot of what is going to come against America in the days ahead. Then He said to me, “As all of this begins to happen, you must prophesy when I tell you to prophesy! I AM on my throne! I will not allow Satan to be blamed! It is all coming from My Hand! I AM the One causing all the chaos! I AM the One sending the fire! I AM the One bringing discipline and great destruction to America ! You will tell them it is from Me!”

It is time for every one of us to come in to that intimate place in Him. Keep short accounts with the Lord! Walk in a spirit of repentance! Go where He tells us to go, speak what He tells us to speak, write what He tells us to write, and do what He tells us to do! As we move in obedience, He will move by His Spirit to do what needs to be done to bring the correction or judgment that is needed, that all of His plans and purposes will be accomplished. He said, “Always, first of all, I warn you through My servants the prophets. I, the Sovereign Lord, have now done this!”

Let’s all thank Him and praise His Holy name for all that He is doing today! And I want to thank all of you who are so faithful in praying for me and for this ministry. Thank you, too, for all of your financial support. I am so grateful! Without your help we could not do all that we do! I just thank God for your obedience!  

Shalom & Blessings, Myrna