Hearing the voice of the Lord

The Flame of the Lord – Karen Austin

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Think it not strange the things that I said to My people Israel, I say to My people today. For in My Word are hidden truths for that time and also truths for the day in which you live. For My word is a living thing and encompasses things of yesteryear as well as things today. The Word of My power worked yesterday and it works today, all by the hands of those who stand in righteousness, purity and meekness.

I say in the days to come, you shall see the flame of the Lord arise upon My people and they shall become flaming swords in My hand dispersing My power and My judgment upon that which seeks to hinder My way. I have not withheld that which you need and will need in the coming days. The sun is going down upon the earth and darkness shall be all around. But upon you shall be the brightness of My rising. My people who have sold out to Me shall be the only brightness the land shall see. Those who love evil will try to extinguish the light, but they shall shine yet seven times brighter! For I am the light in their midst.

Shrink not back from that which I call you. For as you walk in that which I have assigned to you – you walk in Me also. For I have gone before you and I shall make your way plain. For there shall be no darkness that can hide My path from you. Know that My path is a sure path that will lead you into that which I have for you and those who are with you. Do not allow the dust of the world and the weight of it to weigh you down. All hope is found in Me for I am the God of ALL hope! Many in this hour will become hopeless, but I am raising you up as beacons of hope – trophies of My grace. You shall shine brightly with My truth and because of that brightness of My light upon you, many will be drawn to you for a word of hope and encouragement.

You shall be dispensers of My grace, My truth and My mercy unto man and through this shall be a dispensation of healing such as you have never seen in your generation! For as people come, their whole house shall be swept clean by My righteous right hand and My very virtue shall flood their entire being. It shall be as I have already established in My Word – whole – spirit, soul and body.

A sanctified people ready to cross over into the New day – a people of covenant, a people of dedication, a people of honor unto Me. These shall be My shining bright ones who shall illuminate the way for many.

It will be the people that do know their God that will shine ever brighter and do great exploits. Daniel 11:32

Wave of Healing – Gary Florence

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Several months ago I believed the Lord showed me a wave of healing coming to the body of Christ. There are so many dealing with sickness, pain and disease that it is consuming and taking us out of the race. Hope deferred has made our souls sick, and we are coming to a place in our mindsets that we are believing this is of the Lord and our lot in life.

I believe that this wave is going to be like something we have not seen to this point. It’s not going to look like how things were done in the past, with calling the elders to anoint with oil or even people laying hands on one another even though those methods will still be used from time to time. I believe that there is a revelation coming to the body of Christ that we will begin to take hold of. That the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead will make alive our bodies. I believe all of a sudden people will get healed during praise and worship and yell out “I just received my healing.” People will be in Walmart or at their place of business. I even believe people will be in doctors’ office waiting to be seen when all of a sudden this revelation is going to come upon them just like when the Holy Spirit came upon Jesus’ lifeless body and breathed His breath of life into it causing His body to come back to life.

In Ephesians it says that we may experience what is the glorious inheritance in the saints and that we may experience what is the unlimited, immeasurable, surpassing greatness of the resurrection power that is at work in each one of us. It is time that these words come off of the pages and revelation knowledge comes into our spirits. I believe that we are going to be His body full of a life that has been healed, restored and set free from the bondage of sickness and disease. I for one am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I speak to us that the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation come upon us and open the eyes of our hearts to this wave of healing that is coming to His body.

Super Bowl-Game Plan – Karen Austin

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Today I am going to continue spiritual insights from not only the Super Bowl game but also from the character/faith of the Kansas City Chiefs’ quarterback, Patrick Mahomes. This young man may be young in years, but he is mature in His faith in Christ.

I saw spiritual keys during the Super Bowl that can help us visualize the spiritual battles we face. The Word of God is our only plumb line. But Jesus taught in parables using natural things as subject objects when he explained spiritual principles, He teaches us through nature and other natural things. I am not a football fan nor expert by a long shot! I will take some of what was spoken by various sports commentators and the written press to explain the intensity of the battle and the win by faith.

“During this high pressured Super Bowl game, Patrick faced probably one of the most potent defense that he had ever faced. They had a perfect game plan to limit the Chief’s big plays. Patrick was hit enough to become flustered, frustrated, confused and impatient.” Can you relate? Sometimes it seems that no matter what we try, the enemy “seems” to get the upper hand. He pulls strategies out of his playbook to get us off our spiritual game. We begin to doubt ourselves, our abilities and question if we really heard from God. Time passes, the clock is ticking, pressure is on and we wonder if we will ever see victory.

At times during the game a play would be reviewed with an aerial view of the playing field and the play. I remember thinking if the quarterback could just see from that view, he would know exactly how to aim at his target! I sensed that this is where the Body of Christ is losing some battles. To many times, especially in the heat of the battle, our perspective is from the ground game, satan’s territory. It is primarily on the things we see happening. While we certainly need to be keenly aware of what is going on, our focus for victory must come from a higher perspective, Heaven’s perspective. We are seated FAR above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. Ephesians. 1:21]. He has battle plans we have never dreamed of!

Patrick could see doubt beginning to come into the eyes of his team. It took him to the last minute to find himself and he finally did. He pulled on his faith and began to speak to his team, “You just got to believe, brother.” At this point, I receive a private message stating the Chiefs were down 10 points and didn’t look good. I sensed Holy Spirit say this is how it appears in spiritual battles. We start out strong but as the battle intensifies and we seem to be blocked at every step. It appears we will not win and the enemy has the upper hand, but this is when to hold onto faith with a tight grip. That is exactly what Patrick did. He said, “I mean – We never lost faith. That’s the biggest thing.” I’ve heard said “Setback is a setup for comeback!”

This game was approximately four hours. Our battles may take days, months or even years. But I leave you with these wise words from Patrick Mahomes. “You’ve just got to believe brother, it’s going to happen man, I can feel it.”

2 Corinthians 5:7 “For we live by faith, not by sight”

Super Bowl Insights – Redeeming the Land – Karen Austin

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Today I will lay the ground work regarding what I sensed about the Super Bowl game. Along with the prophecy that Bob Jones had given years ago, I sensed this game represented the great spiritual battle we now see taking place in the world. So, what I will share is from a spiritual perspective.

I am sure there are God loving people in the city of San Francisco and on the 49er’s team. Remember we wrestle not with flesh and blood but against principalities, powers rulers of darkness in this world and wickedness in high places {Ephesians 6:12]. .What I sensed during the game was a war between the spiritual dominions that reign in the areas of these two cities. We could readily see the spiritual battle with many players giving glory to God, praying vs the half-time show promoting sexual exploitation.

Mike Bickle began the International House of Prayer (IHOP) in 1999 with 24/7 prayer. Also God raised up prophets called the “Kansas City Prophets.” They were Bob Jones, Bill Hamon, Paul Cain, James Goll and John Paul Jackson. So we see the land being set apart for the Kingdom of God…to train and raise up other leaders in the Body of Christ, to establish the Presence of the Lord in that city. Although I am sure there are acts of darkness taking place in this city, what I am stating is the establishment of the Kingdom of God over the land for more than 21 years.

While I am not familiar with the spiritual roots of San Francisco, I am aware of the rapid decline of what was once a beautiful city now taking place on the land…outdoor drug markets, homeless taking over the streets, individuals with mental illnesses living in streets and parks, filth and the spread of disease. Government given authority to release murderers, rapists, child molesters, illegals, etc. The advancement of abortion and gay rights is prominent. The effects of darkness is blatant over this land. I do pray for light to invade the darkness to set the people free! Light always overcomes darkness and there is a redemption He wants to take place in this city.

I sensed not only the truth about revival and Apostolic Chiefs arising, but also that the tide has turned. Something has shifted in the spiritual realm. Just as Kansas City Chiefs appeared to be losing for 50 years, in truth, they were in training for this sweet victory.

Holy Spirit is moving as the wind beneath our sails causing us to rise up above this earthly playing field into the realms of Heavenly authority and victory. We will begin to see more and more spiritual victories. I sense that the Father has given His Bride an open playing field. He is not only inviting us to receive this end-time favor and victories for in the church, but in the market place, the schools, the political field, and wherever we find ourselves! As we maintain Heaven’s perspective of the battle, we will no longer become weary, but energized by the victories we see ahead of us. New vision is being released. New confidence is rising up in His Bride to become all He has called us to be and to do all He has called us to do! Arise Church! The victory is ours and our reward in Heaven will outweigh any Vince Lombardi trophy!

Apostolic Chiefs: What I hear the Lord saying – Karen Austin

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Today I would like to comment on what I feel part of the significance of Bob Jones prophecy and the Kansas City Chiefs winning the Super bowl. Remember we only see in part.

First, I want to acknowledge that Bob Jones was one of the most accurate prophets that I have heard and witnessed. I was at a leadership meeting years ago and he laid hands on me to be more discerning of the Spirit, etc. I also have been at conferences where he ministered. I followed his ministry for many years and know people whom he mentored who are people of character. Of course, we have to discern every prophetic word with the Word of God and the spirit of the Word. Discernment especially in the days we live will be very important! So I do endorse his ministry.

What I feel many missed in the prophetic word, which I have included at the bottom of this post, is that when we see the Kansas City Chiefs win the Super Bowl, “God is raising up His Apostolic Chiefs”. Like most, we get excited about revival about to come and stop there. We should get excited! Seeing people coming into the Kingdom, being healed and delivered is exciting!

While we have witnessed a sign according to the prophecy, we can also look around us and see many other signs. What the prophecy does not signify is that we can quit praying and declaring His Word. Actually, it means that even more we should be allowing Holy Spirit’s sanctification process and be about the Father’s business. One thing I have seen with the Body of Christ and prophecy, is many think if they received a prophetic word, well, it’s just going to happen and I don’t need to do anything. While there are prophecies that are not conditional, many are.

Holy Spirit will once again lead. We will prefer one another instead of stepping over one another to get a “position of importance”. We will promote and encourage one another’s ministry. The congregation will be challenged to become conformed into His image and not pacified to pet our flesh and glorify our own image. Remember the Bride has made HERSELF ready [Rev. 19:7].

Tomorrow I plan to share a little more on the insight I believe I have received regarding the Kansas City Chiefs winning the Super Bowl. But for now, I say, “RISE UP AND GO CHIEFS, HIS APOSTOLIC CHIEFS!”

“When the Chiefs win the Super Bowl, you will know that revival is about to come. God is raising up His Apostolic Chiefs.” ~~ Bob Jones

Sound of Thunder – Part 6 – Karen Austin

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Sound of Thunder – Part 6

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, I am seeing trophy rooms where what has been taken back from the enemy are placed in these trophy rooms of God. I’m seeing that trophy room….just stuff being thrown in that room. I mean, it’s just all kinds of things that are going to be coming off of people being set free and placed in this trophy room of God.

Thank you Lord.

Father, I ask You to help us. Grant us the wisdom that we need for this hour. Holy Spirit, You are the Spirit of Truth. I pray for an increase of the Spirit of Truth in Your house and in each person. Lord God, I ask for an increase in discernment. Lord God, that as the Word is preached on discernment that you will release that to a higher measure to us here in Your house. Teach us Holy Spirit. Teach us Holy Spirit, because this work that’s about to be done will not be by our power or our might, but by Your Spirit. Let us be a people full of the Spirit and a people of the Word, balance between the two. Jesus, we want to be taught by you. Lord, we want You to teach us. We humble ourselves and we lay aside every preconceived idea of how it is to do this thing that we’re getting ready to step into. We lay all of our plans, all of our know-how, and we lay ’em at the feet of Jesus. And Lord, we ask You to resurrect that which truly is You and that which truly You want to bring forth and that which You want to add to.

Yes, yes, the mysteries, the mysteries are being revealed. That which has been hidden is being revealed. Not only in the good way, which is the revealing of the truth of My word, but also the truth of the things that have been hidden on the dark side. They’re being revealed – their plans are being uncovered for is there anything hidden that I do not see?

I AM IN CONTROL!

And I am revealing myself to those among the Muslim community and truth is being revealed to them. There will be some that will even march along your ranks, for I shall do a quick work in them.

There are things that I am going to do upon this earth that they will not be able to reason away. There are going to be signs in the Heavens and signs in the earth. My people will do exploits and they will be speechless. There’s nothing they can say but, “IT IS GOD!”

Sound of Thunder – Part 5 – Karen Austin

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Sound of Thunder – Part 5

So fear not when you hear the thunder and the rumbling. Believe Me when I say, “Yes, the enemy will cause thunder to rumble in your life”, but know that he can do nothing without Me saying that it’s ok. My hand is upon you. My hand is upon your life and My hand is upon your loved ones because I AM a God of Covenant and great peace do I release upon your children and your children’s children because of Covenant.

Because of Covenant, I’m about to give dreams to those that have walked away from me. I’m about to give dreams and you shall begin to see those that have walked away and those that have strayed are going to begin to stream into the churches that allow My Spirit to move freely because they know that they know, that they know, that they know, it’s only the Spirit of God that can set them free and they must go to where the Spirit is moving.

I will have lighthouses all over the earth. Just as in the underground churches in the other nations, where people are led by My Spirit, and so shall it be in the days ahead that My Spirit will draw those that are crying out for deliverance – for healing – for peace. I will raise them up quickly for I have need of them. This will be a day in which some of the training manuals will be thrown out the window because what worked then, will not work now.

It’s a new hour. It’s a new season. It’s a new day. Forsake not the assembling together of yourselves in these last days because you will need the encouragement and the strength of one another. For when the armies got to battle, one does not go this way and one go the other way. They all stay at the heed of the commander. And then they gather back in the bunker. They look out for one another. And this shall be an army that locks arms and saves and delivers many.

Sound of Thunder – Part 4 – Karen Austin

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Sound of Thunder – Part 4

I’m going to reveal Myself to My people in a way that has not been seen for a long, long time upon this earth. I am coming in visitation to those that I will call to lead My people. And I will impart and empower them to move beyond where they think that they could ever go and accomplish. For I will be the wind in your sail. I will lift you up and I will move you here and I will take you there. Yield your life to Me, not just your heart, but your life. Whoever loves his life will lose it. But I say that I will add to your life. I will add increase. My people are going to walk in a measure of peace and prosperity and joy in this hour. The joy that passes all understanding. That peace that passes all understanding shall be yours.

But you must spend time with Me. Guard what you see. Guard what you hear. Guard what you read. For they are but mere man and have man’s opinion. Man’s wisdom will not cut it in these days that we’re coming into. It will be the wisdom of God that will be made manifest to the principalities and the powers.

There is a strengthening, an empowering coming to the sons and the daughters. the mature ones. They will be as Samson in the world. But they will not be deceived, because they will remain in the secret place. There will be times that My Spirit will come upon you that you feel as they did in the days of old, that they could leap over a wall and run with a troop. But do not say “I am old. I am weak. I am tired.” Because this day will require supernatural strength and I am your supernatural God! I will supply everything that you have need of. The days of the miracles and the signs and the wonders are about to be poured out and released. And the miracles will be multiplication of food, multiplication of water. Everything that you will have need of will be provided.

Sound of Thunder – Part 3 – Karen Austin

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Sound of Thunder – Part 3

So even in this time I’ve said to make sure that you have gatherings and you be at gatherings where the rain is being poured out, because I desire you to be so saturated by My Spirit that it will bypass your mind. Because in the days to come, you must be led of the Spirit. For those truly are the sons of God and the sons are the ones who are led by the Spirit. And you must be totally intoxicated, filled, filled, filled by My Spirit because if you are not, you can be washed under the flood that is coming. You must be as the five wise virgins. You must be filled with oil. You must be filled with oil and at the moment that I come down and the lightning strikes, you will illuminate and be light in the darkness.

And I say that there are different types of oil that are being poured out in this season. Be very careful of the oil that you put into your lamp, because there will be oil they will say you can get and it has a cheap price. And as the saying goes, “You get what you pay for”. The same as in the realm of the Spirit. Because this oil, this rich oil that I am talking about, there is a high price. And the high price is when others are playing, you are praying. When others are crying, you will be laughing, because you will be filled with My Spirit and that Spirit is the Spirit of joy because the joy of the Lord will be your strength. No, you will not laugh at the calamities and the things that will come upon the earth, but you will laugh at the enemy. When you laugh at the enemy, you join with Heaven because did I not say that I laugh in the Heavens?

Know that I have everything under control, everything under control. Everything under control! You must remain in My perfect love because it is perfect love that casts out fear. And fear will be rampant in this day and in this hour. But you shall be far from it, says the Lord, as you keep yourself filled with My love, filled with My peace, your oil filled. And because of those that the enemy would send along your path, that will appear as those who are righteous who would try to steal the oil, I am increasing the discernment in these days, because you will need it and you will need to know the difference. But My sheep, they know My voice.

So keep your eyes upon Me and the more that you spend time with Me, the more that you are in My presence, the more that you are in My Word, you will become acclimated to the feeling, the senses, the smell, the sight of the Spirit of God, that when you come into contact with that which is false, you will know immediately, because you have been with the real.

The Sound of Thunder (Part 2) – Karen Austin

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Sound of Thunder – Part 2

But when you hear the sound of the thunder, instead of running and hiding in the natural, I see you, My children, running out into the rain. You will not run and you will not hide, but you will run to the place where My Spirit is being poured out. You will be fountains of My rain, fountains of My rain to be poured out upon the earth. You will not run and hide, but you will run and go, because you know that I have sent you. You know that you have been called to walk upon this earth for such a times as this. And you have chosen to be such ones that will dare to be different. You are chosen to not just to be the status quo, but you have said, “Lord, if it’s You, I’m gonna go! I’m gonna to do it!” And God has found a people who are faithful, and not just you, but there are those all across the globe who are called by My name that hear the secret whispers of My Spirit.

So for My people, when you hear the sound of the thunder and it begins to rain, that’s your sign. That’s your cue!