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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!”

What is the prophetic – (Part 2) – Gary Florence

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Let’s pick up where we left off on part 1.

Ananias had a choice to make he could have looked through his natural eyes and the circumstances surrounding Saul and what was happening to the church and declared to him “You are a lying good for nothing murderer” and you know what, in the natural he was speaking the truth but Ananias allowed the Lord to open his spiritual eyes instead and heard the Lord say to him, “Go for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel”.

We too have choices to make, we could look through our natural eyes and circumstances surrounding people and declare to them “You are nothing but sinners all you do is sin, sin, sin!” Or could we allow the Holy Spirit to open our spiritual eyes and call out the hidden treasures that God has placed in each one of us? Later on Saul, who is now named Paul, says that prophecy is to encourage, edify, and build up. He also said I wish that all of you would prophecy. I just have to wonder if one of the reasons Paul wrote that is because of the impact the prophetic word from Ananias had on his life.

The prophetic word has the ability to change someone’s life for the positive. You may one day be called upon by the Lord to be an Ananias to someone that in the natural there is nothing you can see in them being used by God that would have an impact on the world. They may even be in sin, but do you dare to allow your eyes to see into the spirit and call forth the Paul in them. Let me put a challenge before you and me, those of us who may have the gift of prophecy what if we decide to choose the prophetic to encourage, edify, and build up? To call forth from a person the hidden treasure within them because each and everyone one of us has God given talents, abilities and gifting’s and allow the ones who have been called to the office of the Prophet to call forth the judgments of God when it’s necessary. What kind of impact could we have on people’s lives if we decided to rise to this challenge?

In our mouth’s we have the power of life and death, together let’s choose life. Here’s something for you to think about. Our founding fathers and mothers, did they not also prophesy over our nation when the declared that we would be “One nation under God.”?

The next time we get together I am going to share on a topic that can be controversial and push a lot of people’s button and that is should women keep silent in the church? Do you have your buttons ready?

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.

Awakening II – Duo Steve Shoaf and Mark Crowe

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Music comes in all forms. That is one of the greatest attributes of our God, that He has given us the Holy Spirit to worship Him in song, whether with instruments or with our voice

Awakening ll is just such a group. If you get a chance please visit them at Awakening ll on their Facebook page to learn more about them.  The video below is a little older, but still captures the essence of their worship before the Lord. They are coming out with a new CD early this year. Take a moment and enjoy a time of intimate worship with Steve and Mark, as they minister before and to the Lord.

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.

Two Wolves – Frank Work

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I was talking to a couple of fellow co-workers the other day, and during our conversation, one of them said out of the blue, “Two wolves”. They both looked at each other with a knowing smile. Apparently, I wasn’t aware of what this phrase meant, especially in the context of what we were talking about, so I asked him to explain. He began to tell me that this phrase was from a movie he had watched with his children called Tomorrowland. I remember seeing the commercial on television, so I knew which movie he was referring to. He went on to say that during the movie there was a dialog between two of the characters and this dialog included the phrase “two wolves.” Now little did I know that this phrase comes from an old Cherokee proverb or fable, and this phrase actually has great spiritually meaning. Below is that proverb.

“One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, generosity, empathy, truth, compassion, and faith.” The grandson thought about this for a minute and then asked the grandfather, “Which wolf wins?” The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”

Interesting that the concept mirrors what Jesus said in the New Testament. Jesus said in Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.(NKJV)

In kingdom principles, there are only two mindsets. One that follows God, and one that follows the flesh. I know in my lifetime at some point or another I have feigned confusion about which one I am following, but in reality, I am not confused at all. The reality is that I am just turning a blind eye to the one I am allowing to lead me. My faith is fed by time spent in fellowship with the Holy Spirit, time spent in the Word, and time spent in prayer. What also feeds my faith is time spent in fellowship with my brothers and sisters in the Lord. Many times I will find myself forsaking the latter. Why? There could be many reasons, or there could be one reason, the point is that as a Christian in the faith, I need to be reminded that I am not in this fight alone. Not only should I have fellowship with the Holy Spirit (2 Cor 13:14), but I also must have fellowship with the breather of Christ, and honor them above myself. (Rom 12:10)

The real bottom line is though, who am I allowing dominance in my life? Who am I feeding? Am I feeding my soul, with the cares of this world, which leads to death and entices the carnal desires of my life? Or am I feeding my Spirit-man, with the word and breath of God, which is the blood of Christ and the Spirit of God? Doing so brings me closer in relationship with the Holy Spirit, and ultimately to the understanding of true peace and the Father’s heart for my life. It’s a life long struggle between the flesh and our spirit-man, our soul is in flux, but this doesn’t have to be a constant for us as men and women of God.

I like to think of my soul as Switzerland. It’s neutral in all conflicts, it’s neutral in all peace. What my soul wants is a leader. A leader to show it the way it should react, or respond. On one side of my neutral soul is my flesh and on the other side is my spirit-man. Much like the old Cherokee proverb of the two wolves, my soul is looking for which one will feed it. Now before I go any further, I am going to lay down some scriptural references concerning the spirit, soul and body.

1 Thessalonians 5:23(ESV) “Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”


Hebrews 4:12(ESV) “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”


Genesis 2:7(ESV) “ then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.”


Galatians 5:16-17(ESV) ” But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.”

I believe that our soul was created when God breathed the breath of life into the nostrils of Adam (Gen 2:7). This action I believe is what created the soul of man. In Hebrew the word, “ruach” means “breath or Spirit of God”. It was the combination of man’s flesh, and God’s Spirit, which in turn created the soul. So there is a struggle between the flesh, our carnal nature, and our spirit-man for dominance over our soul. These are our two wolves, which battle each other and they are both wanting and needing to be fed. It’s the decisions we make on a day-to-day basis that decide which “wolf” is fed and which wolf takes control of our soul. Is our life filled with hate, jealousy, and strife? Then our flesh is the dominant wolf. Is our life filled with love, joy, and a wanting to draw closer to the Lord? Then our spirit-man is the dominant wolf.

I have been really thinking about something that I heard during a sermon, that the Native Americans are some of the lost tribes of Israel and they already had a concept of the teaching of Jehovah. Maybe, maybe not. I am not sure at this point, but what I do know is that we must not lean on our own understanding when it comes to the things of the Spirit, but lean on the shoulders of Christ and allow Him to show us all truth and knowledge concerning our lives in Him and His life in us.

What is the prophetic? (Part 1) – Gary Florence

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I am sure that there are as many answers as there are questions to this topic. We may think of prophecy as one foretelling the judgments of God, like in the Old Testament or Jesus telling Nathaniel that He saw him sitting under a tree before they even met. So in this day and age who’s voice do we listen too? There are those voices who say that the judgments of God are coming to American. Like California is going to detach from the U.S. and drift out to sea and perish because of Hollywood. Then you have other voices claiming that a kind of like utopia is on the horizon. I am not writing to side with one or the other, what I would like to do is take you down the road to Damascus where a man named Saul was about to encounter THE Prophetic Word.

Saul was on his way to kill the Way (Christians) when he was knock off his high horse by the prophetic light of Christ. Many times we call out sin and judgment in one another lives but what would happen if we decided to call out one another’s treasure of destiny that God has placed within each of us. Next time we will found out what choice Ananias made when he came to Saul at the house on Straight Street.

The Sound of Thunder – Karen Austin

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“The sound of thunder that is the sound that the world is hearing. They know that there’s a change and there’s a shift that’s coming up in the realm of the heavenlies. They know, but all they can hear is the thunder – the thunder – the thunder, and they know that a storm is brewing, but they know not what kind of a storm it is that is coming.

Even those that belong to the Lord, whose focus is upon the things of the earth, all they’re hearing is the distant rumble of the thunder. And just as there are many in the natural that fear when they hear the sound of the thunder, that they run and they hide in the safest place that they know to try and shelter themselves from the storm. And so it is in this hour and in this day. That even My people, says God, are hearing the rumblings, the sounds of thunder in the distance and some of My people are running, and they’re hiding, and they’re trying to shelter themselves from the storm that is coming and going to come upon the earth.

But I want you to know that this sound of thunder was also sounded when I ascended from hell. When I died & I arose there was a sound of thunder. It was a splitting open of the sky when I ascended. And know that this sound, when you hear the sound of thunder, you who know My voice, you are to say, “Ha Ha, something’s coming. My Lord, He’s coming.” Not coming as far as the second coming as of yet, but I am coming within you and I shall show Myself strong on behalf of those who are Mine.

You shall not run to shelter in the natural for I am your shelter. He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. That is the shelter that you are to not only run to, but you are to abide in, in this day and in this hour in which we are in. For just as thunder comes because it is a clash of cold and hot air, it clashes and causes the sound – the sound – the sound – the sound. And so is there a thunder in the realm of the Spirit because it is My Spirit and the spirit of the antichrist that are clashing in this hour.”

The God who heals and restores – Karen Austin

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I bless you in the name of Jehovah-Rapha, the God who heals [Exodus 15:6]. “The chief meaning of Jehovah is derived from the Hebrew word Havah meaning “to be” or “to exist.” It also suggests “to become” or specifically “to become known” – this denotes a God who reveals Himself unceasingly. Rapha means “to restore”, “to heal” or “to make healthful” in Hebrew. Jehovah is the Great Physician who heals the physical and emotional needs of His people.” [Ref.: Blue Letter Bible]
So from these definitions we can say “Jehovah, the God who reveals Himself unceasingly, heals and restores.”
Today, I bless you with a revelation of the love of the Father who heals you. I bless you with healing from any sickness or disease that would keep you from fulfilling your destiny. I bless you with strength to stand against any attack that may be coming against your physical body. I bless you today with wisdom to know how to care properly for your temple in order that your immune system be strong. May His overshadowing Presence manifest over you as a shield from any harmful elements, contagious disease or virus.
May our Father reveal Himself as Jehovah-Rapha over each of you this day!