V Indicates Scripture or other reference

In Isaiah 30:25, God promised He would pour blessings upon our land “in the day when the towers fall.” We have seen the towers fall. We have seen that God always does what He says He will do. So we can be certain, by the Word of God in Isaiah 30:25, that God began to pour out His promised blessings on the morning of September 11^th, 2001 – even as the towers were falling.

God’s blessings are still flowing in America today. Will we receive them? Or will we just let them flow by?

The blessings of Isaiah 30:25 are called “streams of water.” Throughout the Bible, water is often used as a picture of the refreshing flow of the Holy SpiritV1. Because God promised us water in Isaiah 30:25, we know that the blessings God promised us are Spiritual, not natural. And Jesus tells us that when God’s Spiritual blessings are poured out as water, they flow into the land through His people:

In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink. He who believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his bellyV2 shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake He of the Spirit, whom they who believe on Him [Jesus] would receiveV3: for the Holy Spirit was not yet given; because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

John 7:37-39

Isaiah 30:25 promises that streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill. Just as water is a symbol of the Holy Spirit, these high mountains and lofty hills are also symbols – and their symbolic meanings are made clear in the original Hebrew text. The Hebrew word translated as “high” is gaboahh – it means “elevated, arrogant, proud.” The word translated as “lofty” is marowm – it means “self-proclaimed dignity.” By looking at these Hebrew words in the context of today’s America, we can see that the high mountains and lofty hills are symbols of people who once exalted themselves against God, but now believe on Jesus. We who serve in this ministry used to be “high and lofty”; but now, by the grace of God, we are Christians[05].

God’s streams of water are now flowing on every high mountain and on every lofty hill. This means that no “special” person (and no “special” ministry!) has been entrusted with all of God’s Spiritual blessings. If anyone ever tries to tell you that God speaks through him and him alone, beware. That person is grabbing for a level of power and glory that belongs to God and God alone. That person is not even serving the Lord – he or she is serving Satan. That is why Jesus so strongly warns us in Matthew 7:15, Beware of false prophets!

God is pouring out His Spiritual blessings – right now! – in waves. As each wave rolls across our land, God is waiting to see how America responds before He pours out the next wave.

The first wave is conviction. Since the moment the towers fell, the Holy Spirit has been showing people that things are radically wrong and need to be radically set rightV4. And, under the conviction of the Spirit, millions of Americans have begun to ask questions along the lines of:
                   Why do we have “legal” abortion when most Americans believe
                          it should be illegal?
                   Why are homosexuals being given special rights and
                          consideration under the law?
                   Why do “Christian” churches focus on social issues (and
                          recreation), instead of on Christ?
                   Why do the national news media feature (and reinforce!) the
                          opinions of the “liberal elite?”
                   Why is pornography – but not school prayer – legally
                          protected as “freedom of speech?”
                   Why do “white collar” criminals keep getting away with multi-
                          billion-dollar crimes?
                   Why do cigarette companies target teenagers and pre-teens
                          in their advertising?
                   Why do our universities indoctrinate American students with
                          ungodly philosophies?
                   Why do we, as a free people, keep letting all these ungodly
                          philosophies control us!

Are you asking these kinds of questions, and demanding answers, right now? If you are, God has blessed you! Because now – if you choose to do so – you may enter in to the next wave of blessing from the Holy Spirit of God!

This next wave is repentance. As you enter into this wave, the Holy Spirit may call you to repent of standing back and “giving your silent assent” while America was gradually sinking into sin. Or, the Spirit may call you to repent for taking an active part in those sins. Or, perhaps you’ve already begun to repent of your past sins as the Spirit calls your attention to them. Whatever the case may be, God has promised that you will be blessed:

If our heart condemn us (at the call of the Spirit), God is greater than our heart, and knows all things (before we confess them, and is willing to forgive us for every sin we do confess). Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then we have confidence toward God (that there is no un-resolved sin in our lives).

1^st John 3:20, 21

God’s forgiveness, and the confidence that He is not holding any old sins against you, are glorious blessings – but the blessings go on from there! Once your heart has been cleansed of sin through confession and repentance[08], you will be free to step aside from the world for a season, and repent for the sins of America as a whole. God has given His people the authority to repent on behalf of the nations they live in (that is, to intercede for the land); and He also promised that He will hear our intercessory prayers:

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass against me, and that they have walked contrary unto me; if then their hearts be humbled, then I will remember my covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 26:40- 45 (excerpts)

How many intercessors will it take to get through to God? How many Christian believers will have to come humbly before Him and repent for our nation before the next waves of blessing can be released? Perhaps millions. Or ... perhaps just one.

Centuries before Jesus was born, God sent the entire nation of Israel into exile at Babylon as a punishment for their sins as a nation. The prophet Daniel went before God to repent for “the iniquity of their fathers.” God answered that prayer by sending the angel Gabriel to give Daniel the “Messianic timetable,” which foretold the exact times of the Messiah’s birth and death, and promised that the resurrected Messiah would return to earth to reclaim His Church. This passage of Scripture (Daniel 9:25-27) is one of the strongest proofs in the Old Testament that Jesus is – and only Jesus can possibly be! – the Messiah who was promised by God to the Jewish people.

As you enter in to the blessing of intercessory prayer, you may want to think of Daniel, on his knees at Babylon, and dare to wonder: “What kind of answer would God send me if I were the only person to repent for the sins of my nation?”

Some of the ongoing waves of blessing that God will pour out upon our land, are revealed in the prophecy He gave us when He told us to begin this book. That prophecy says in part:

Meet together with My Son Jesus once a week. And as you do that, I will give you new revelations of Me, and I will enter in to new relationships with you – relationships of love in the Kingdom of Love[14]. Each of you can become a citizen of His Kingdom, then a child at His knee, then a disciple of His, then a Bride of Jesus Christ, then a member of My royal family, then an anointed servant of the living God. All of this you will understand as I continue to give you deeper and deeper knowledge of Me; and all of this begins as you withdraw from religious idolatry and seek Me in the lifeboat of your home.

The blessings underlined above may be poured out in a different order, and at different levels of intensity, for each person who chooses to receive them. We believe there will be far more blessings than the ones God has chosen to reveal through us – because our ministry is only one of the “mountains and hills” where God’s blessings will flow. And we pray that you may become one of the mountains and hills where God will pour out His blessings. And why not! The italicized part of the prophecy does contain the promise that God will continuously give new revelations of love to those people who meet together with His Son Jesus!

Which brings us back to the questions at the beginning of this chapter. Will you receive all of the waves of blessing that God hopes to pour in to – and then out from – your life? Or will you just let the blessings roll by? Will you continue to meet with God’s Son Jesus and receive new waves of Spiritual revelation? Or will you spend every anniversary of the fall of the towers just asking yourself, “I wonder if anything really changed in America since 9/11/01?”

Unhappily, not all of the waves that will be rolling across America will be from God. In times of change and uncertainty, waves of false prophets always seem to pop up, announce they are “from God,” and demand our allegiance (and our money!). Just as God’s people are led by the Holy Spirit, so these false prophets are led by satanic spirits. That is why the Apostle John warns us,

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try (test) the spirits [to see] whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

1^st John 4:1

Try the spirits! We cannot tell false from true prophets by their outward appearance, their tone of voice, the car they drive, or the people who follow after them – all we can do is test the spirits that flow out of their “bellies.” And here are some Scriptures that can help us do just that:

John 14:15-17 

If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, nor knows him: but ye know him; for he dwells with you, and shall be in you.

The Holy Spirit comes to us directly from the Father – and He will never tell us anything that cannot be backed up by the Father’s Holy Word, the Bible. So if anyone tries to claim your allegiance (or your money!) “in the Name of God,” or if anyone tries to place any obligation upon you “in the Name of God,” the first thing you should ask is: “Do his or her words line up with the revealed Word of God in the Holy Scriptures?” If they don’t, he or she is a false prophet.

And, as the Father tells us in Deuteronomy 18:22, “[If] a prophet hath spoken [a word] presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.”

John 16:12-15 

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: there-fore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you. 

The Holy Spirit receives guidance, visions and other Truth directly from Jesus, and speaks it “as-is” to those people Jesus sends Him to. So if anyone tries to give you (or more likely, to sell you) a “call from God” or a “vision from God,” ask yourself this common-sense question: “Is this ‘calling’ or ‘vision’ something that Jesus would want any of His people to be involved in?” And, if your common sense tells you that Jesus would never ask you to do the things the “prophet” wants you to do, you’ll know that you’re dealing with a religious swindler who wants to take over your life for his own or her own (or Satan’s own) purposes, not God’s.

And, as Jesus said to His disciples in Luke 17:22-23, “The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man (His appearance, either in Person, or in the life of one of His people), and ye shall not see it. And they (the false prophets) shall say to you, See [it is] here; or, see [it is] there: go not after them, nor follow them.”

John 16:13,14 

When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.

The Holy Spirit will always glorify Jesus. So whenever a spiritual-sounding idea seems to pop into your head, don’t waste your time wondering, “Can this possibly be from God?” Just ask yourself: “If this project pans out, who will get the glory from it? Me? The devil? The person who put the idea into my head? Or the Lord of glory, Jesus Christ!”

Once you can see where the glory will go to, you’ll have a pretty good idea of where the idea came from. And once you know the spiritual source, you’ll know exactly what it’s worth.

As the holy and un-holy waves roll across America, we must test the spirits behind each wave so we will know how to respond to it. Happily, God has made it possible for us to do just that. As each wave rolls up to us, all we have to do is ask the Holy Spirit to show us:

                        1: Does this line up with the written Word of God?
                        2: Does this line up with the character of Jesus? and
                        3: Does this bring glory to the Lord Jesus Christ 

If it does all three, then “catch the wave!” If it doesn’t – just let that wave roll by.