Revelations for Prayer Walk on June 3

Hey guys,

This is a reecord of the revelations God gave us during the VINE prayer walk on Saturday, June 3, 2006.

First God mentioned the scripture to me about the spies who went into the land of Canaan (Numbers 13-14). He revealed meaning from this scripture recently, but showed that there is much more that we don't understand yet in it!

Anyway, I stayed with the home team at the Vine center and was actually going to ignore that direction becuase it seems so general. . . until Dru who led the home team mentioned the same scripture!! Shane A. also gave me the verse from Joshua about Jericho, Joshua 5-6, which Dru also mentioned!!! So here’s what I can share from the Lord on this passage.

First, the back-story "Satan's Fortress" :
A few moths ago we were praying and took a forward stance in prayer about an area that we have struggled in for a long time. We knew there was a block in this area but never confronted it head on. When we did God revealed what we were up against.
Satan’s fortress.

Satan made me feel for so long that he was invincible in that area of my life, like he had some kind of great and mighty fortress and I would never have success in that area. But when God showed me Satan's “great fortress” it made me laugh so hard! It was only made out of sticks, held together with bits of twine, just like one I made when I was about 10 or 12 years old to play in, or like a kid’s tree-house. And it was so badly under-staffed that they only had ONE demon in his "great fortress," and for "weaponry," he only had a home-made spear with like a pointy rock tied to the end of a stick, and he was banging it on the floor chanting like he was some great warrior — oh man, I started laughing so hard when I saw that!! Picture a mon-chi-chi trying to sound and act like Aslan or something, I mean he just can't pull it off no matter how hard he tries to sound fierce.
And I heard the demon speak when I laughed at his "fortress" and he said, "But it was all I had to build with." He only has fear, doubt and lies, nothing of true substance, especially compared to God's WORD!
And the fortress was so badly made, but I had pumped myself up to fight a whole battle, I realized all I had to do was just wave my hand in the air and say something like, “No, you don’t exist. There’s nothing there to even think about,” and so we destroyed that stronghold with a wave of the hand becuase compared to God's power, it is not even worth talking about. I mean it would take as long to take out the trash as tear down this 'mighty fortres.' Then the demon ran away yelling, "Get back, get back, here they come!"

A day or two later Jesus spoke to Cheryl, my wife, directly and told her that this was how Joshua and Caleb saw the obstacles in Canaan, they saw the obstacles like I saw Satan’s fortress in that vision. This confirming the vision that perception, or what we "see" is one of the keys to our faith. And that we need to see Satan compared to God's power.

The Spies with Bad report were beign 'truthful' in a way
At this same time a few months ago we had other revelation about the spies who brought back the bad report from Canaan. They were basically telling the factual truth about what they saw. It was honest, practical and you could say ‘wise’ advice NOT to attack Canaan. But Joshua and Caleb said “their covering is gone” we can easily defeat them, because while they acknowledged the obstacles as being present, they combined it with FAITH that God could do what HE promised. They did not have a trust in their own strength as the 10 with the bad report did, but they had trust in GOD, who made them a PROMISE. They had an intimate relationship, a personal daily trust in God, and that’s the victory, not that God will empower us with natural strength as much as he only wants us to be an empty vessel that he can use.

OK, so, iF God gave me the scripture about the spies in Canaan he wants me to share that faith is faith in GOD, and his PROMISE, not faith in our abilities, or acting in our 'cautious wisdom' as we assess the FACTS a.k.a. acting in fear, doubt and unbelef.
So during our prayer time on June 3, 06, I also realized all we have to do is speak forth God’s word in the earth realm and get out of the way. We used to think we had to attack principalities and powers with our prayers, but now I don’t do this. Now I ask God what he wants me to pray for and I only do that. If he says nothing, which he almost never does, then I try to do nothing. But if he says to pray for a certain thing, I try to just speak forth his word on that issue, and let him do the fighting. I am trying to be an empty vessel in this regard. I pray his power over the situation, I speak to it and tell teh situation that JESUS is on his way and they’re gonna lose! And then I step back and let HIM do the fighting part. I am exploring this still and know sometimes I have to be more active in speaking forth his word into situations that bother me, but I still try to first find out what he wants me to deal with, and how, before I pray frommy fear, or wild guessing.
So on JUNE 3, when we prayed for the four teams that covered 1. the outlying islands ferry pier, 2. the Star Ferry, 3. IFC 2, 4. Wan Chai Convention center (the Handover building) and nearby pier, we were told that we were to speak repentance, blessings, and be joyfully expectant in this prayer walk. We were aligned against the old powers of the waterways, smuggling, drugs, and the pollution of sin symbolized by the pollution in the harbour.

We began to pray and
1. I saw what looked like two large demonic powers that looked like they were leaning very far over, ready to fall. They were undermined and did not have a strong foundation anymore.
2. I saw that we are the Voice of the Lord in the earth realm, that the LORD will speak through the mouth of his servants.
3. We are covered and we speak the covering of the Blood of Jesus, the lamb of God, of protection over us.
4. Jesus said, “They will hear my voice and they will flee” But also that they may “talk back” to us, or resist their destruction but the only have “empty words.”

We were then to speak blessing to all sinners in Hong Kong, forgiveness, redemption, joy, freedom, peace, love. Without compassion we will not know God’s plan. (more on this from the BD prayer time). We speak these blessings into Hong Kong to make it a place of blessings, to be a blessing to nations!!

1. SPIRITUAL Abundance;
2. a balance of priorities;
3. NOT STRENGTH but weakness, as YHWH’s foolishness is better than our wisdom!
4. A small number can do much because it is only in OUR WEAKNESS that God can SHOW HIMSELF STRONG through us.
I also realized:
5. We don’t see God with our eyes.
We don’t even see God with our minds! We see Him with our hearts, which means our Spirit, it is the very core of what we are, and in this we see God. We also don’t see our circumstances with our eyes, but with our minds, empowered by our imaginations. Fear and worry are products of our malfunctioning run-away negative imaginations.

6. The main hindrance to doing God’s will is
a. when we have a very clear idea of OUR OWN WILL, or PLAN, that we prefer and feel strongly comfortable about and
b. impatience to hear God’s will (see King Saul’s first big goof!).

So if we don’t have knowledge of His ways, or are not mature to be patient we miss his best will.
He says there are three levels of his will: good, acceptable and perfect. Which corresponds to level of our maturity, so a person in a lower level of intimacy with Christ/maturity is not able but also is not expected to act according to a higher level of God’s will. As we mature we become more open to his higher will, and able to walk in it. (See the DB Prayer thing.)

Any comments, I'd love to hear them.