November 1, 2024

The Well of Covenant Will Flow

In a dream given to Clay Nash in 2020, Holy Spirit referred to Cape Henry as the “well of oaths.” I have mentioned the dream before, but Holy Spirit keeps taking me back to it. Cape Henry, as most of you know, is where Robert Hunt and company planted a cross in 1607, and covenanted with God that the gospel would go from this land to all the world. The phrase the Lord used, “well of oaths,” is a reference to the oath taken in covenant ceremonies. 

This phrase is the literal meaning of the name Beersheba, found in Genesis 21:33 and 26:33. Beersheba was a place and a well symbolizing covenant. The first passage (21:33) involves Abraham and his covenant with God, a covenant that existed to bring Messiah to earth. The context of the second reference is when God made Abraham’s son, Isaac, a link in this covenantal chain. 

Just as the covenant with Abraham and Isaac was regarding the salvation of the world, the covenant Hunt and company made with God at Cape Henry was, as well. One – Abraham’s – gave us the Messiah; America’s would be to trumpet the good news of what Messiah accomplished. The “oath” Hunt and company made after planting the cross was to be “Evangelist to the world,” preaching the gospel of the Kingdom to all the earth. Can there be any doubt that this is what the cross represented on that day? And they included you and me in that covenant, by the way, stating their intent “to raise up godly generations after us, and with these generations, take the kingdom of God to all the earth.”(1)

Obviously, Holy Spirit’s reference to Cape Henry as America’s “well of oaths” is incredibly significant and reveals much:

1. It tells us that God honored the covenant Hunt and his party made with Him there! Actually, I believe God not only honored it; I believe He inspired them to make this covenant.

2. In comparison to Abraham’s well, it speaks of the resistance, the warfare that would come against those fulfilling the covenant. The wells Abraham had dug in the region, including Beersheba, had been filled in by his enemies (Genesis 26:18). According to the footnote regarding Genesis 26:15 in The Passion Translation: “In the culture of the day, to dig a well on unclaimed land was a proof of title to the land. To stop the wells of someone else was considered an act of war.” Before Isaac could continue the legacy given by Abraham, he had to re-dig these wells, and give them the same names (26:18), including the “well of oaths” (Beersheba).

   Just as he did with Abraham’s wells, Satan has warred against America’s covenant with God, stopping it up through sin, idolatry, and compromise. We are in the process of re-digging this well, resisting the devil and his actions (James 4:7). 

3. It speaks of cleansing. Isaac needed cleansing before he could re-dig them. In verses 6-11, God inserts the story of Isaac lying to the locals about Rebekah, telling them she was his sister so they wouldn’t kill him to take her as a wife. This covenant-breaking iniquity of Abraham, who had done the exact same thing, in the exact same place (Gerar), with a king having the exact same name (Abimelech), had been passed on to Isaac. (See Genesis 20). (The king was no doubt a descendant, thus having the same name). Could God have chosen this time to expose the generational iniquity in Isaac because of its connection to covenant? “I need a covenant KEEPER, Isaac, so before we re-open the well of covenant, I’m going to cleanse you of the covenant BREAKING spirit.”

   And so it is with America. Before reopening the well of covenant, He has been exposing and cleansing us. Even in Clay’s dream, He referenced this: “Let those assigned to break up the fallow ground plow deep, so that the soil of this nation be prepared for the seeds of righteousness to be sown.”

4. And finally, Holy Spirit’s words in the dream confirm the harvest that will flow from this well. “This will result in an abundant harvest...a harvest that will come with such abundance and so quickly that the harvester will overtake the sower. And let the preparers of the soil do a quick work in order that the sower not delay the harvest.” Life flows from this covenant - it is a well! 

We are warring for this. Also in the dream, Rees Howells, who was used so mightily to war spiritually in prayer against the Nazis, appeared from the cloud of witnesses. He gave us His coat saying, “This is the coat I wore during World War II and must be worn by the Ekklesia in order to see the Kingdom harvest at hand. The training is finished; it’s time to go to war...and OCTOBER will see the turning of the war.”

Keep praying, Ekklesia. Fight for the babies, not Republicans. Fight for covenant, not for Trump. Fight for the harvest, not just for your well-being. Refuse to allow election interference. Bind it in the name of Jesus. Ask God to influence voters toward His candidates. And vote for the candidates who embrace biblical ideals. 

Wear the coat!

Pray with me:

Father, thank You for Cape Henry. Thank You for calling it a “well of oaths,” a well of covenant. Continue to cleanse our nation and release the power of this covenant again. At every level, we ask You to give us a government that welcomes and honors You. Favor those who will do so, those who protect the innocent, who rule righteously. Rid us of corruption and dishonesty in our government. Motivate people to vote and to do so for righteousness. 

We will never stop asking for and believing that powerful revival and reformation will come to America and, as importantly, through America. Give us once again the invaluable privilege of taking the gospel of Christ and His Kingdom to all the world. Release signs, wonders, miracles, and millions of salvations throughout the earth.

And in closing, once more we pray against the violence that demons desire to foment. Protect the candidates and those around them. Protect those who vote and work in the polling places. 

We ask for and declare all of this as representatives of Christ, in His name. Amen. 

Our decree:

We decree that the “well of oaths” is open and flowing again to America!

Click on the link below to watch the full video.

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1. https://1607covenant.com/americas-covenant-with-god/ 

October 31, 2024

Today’s post is taken from our new Give Him 15 Devotional, Volume 3, which will be released around Thanksgiving this year. I’m reading a selection today, which is appropriate as we pray for America and the upcoming elections. The title:

Burn the Ships 

In 1519, the Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés set sail for Mexico with 11 ships and between 600 and 700 men. His goal was to conquer the Aztecs and establish a Spanish settlement. The Aztecs were a very cruel people and performed thousands of human sacrifices to their gods every year. They also captured and possessed many slaves. Their population at the time of Cortés’ arrival was approximately five million.

Mathematically, the odds were stacked against Cortés and his men by a ratio of 7,541 to 1. Two previous expeditions had failed, yet he succeeded and conquered much of the South American continent.

What Cortés did at the beginning of this endeavor is the stuff of legends. Some say the actions were a result of his men becoming so intimidated by the odds and hardships that they decided to give up and go home. Others say Cortés didn’t even wait for that to occur before taking this drastic measure. Either way, Cortés left no doubt that they were staying. “Burn the ships!” he commanded his officers. Cortés removed the option of leaving, turning the mission into an all-or-nothing proposition.(1)

In the 1990s, Steven Curtis Chapman released a song about this action of Cortés, comparing it to the Christian faith. Our entire family loved the song. Here is the first verse and chorus:

In the spring of 1519, a Spanish fleet set sail

Cortés told his sailors this mission must not fail

On the eastern shore of Mexico, they landed with great dreams

But the hardships of the new world make them restless and weak

Quietly they whispered, “Let’s sail back to the life we knew”

But the one who led them there was saying

“Burn the ships; we’re here to stay

There’s no way we could go back

Now that we’ve come this far by faith

Burn the ships; we’ve passed the point of no return

Our life is here, so let the ships burn and burn.”

Life gives us many opportunities to burn the ships made of thoughts in our minds and hearts. We are forced to remind our mind and emotions, “I’ve made my decision; there is no reversing it. I’m not going back.” This could be removing the option of returning to bad habits, or we might close the door to the pain of yesterday’s losses. At times, we must move on from setbacks, hope deferred, and failed dreams. And hopefully, we have burned the ships of retreat to our old life of sin.

We must also, at times, burn the ships when we set our sails toward great endeavors and dreams. On life’s journey, we will periodically be met with adversity, detours, and failures. The best way to keep from giving up is to enter the sanctum of our hearts at the onset and remove the option. Our Founding Fathers were burning the ships when they signed their names to the Declaration of Independence: when pledging their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor;”(2) when Patrick Henry said, “Give me liberty or give me death;”(3) when Lewis Morris said, “Damn the consequences, give me the pen;”(4) these patriots were all burning the ships.

In Luke 9:62, when Jesus said, “No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God,” He was saying, Burn the ships. When He became a microscopic seed and was planted in the womb of a virgin teenager, Christ burned the ships.

When Johann Leonhard Dober and David Nitschmann - two young Moravian Brethren from Herrnhut, Germany - were called in 1732 to minister to the African slaves on the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix in the Danish West Indies, they were told they would not be allowed to do such a thing. So Dober and Nitschmann sold themselves to a slave owner and boarded a ship bound for the West Indies. As the ship pulled away from the docks, they called out to their loved ones on shore, "May the Lamb that was slain receive the reward of His suffering!" When they sold themselves to preach the gospel to an oppressed people, they were burning the ships.(5)

The generation of Israelites who came out of Egypt failed to burn the ships. When times got tough, they said to Moses, We want to go back to Egypt. Only Joshua and Caleb had burned their ships (see Numbers 14).

Esther burned the ships when deciding she would risk all for her Jewish family. “If I perish, I perish,” she said. Then she broke protocol, approached the king, and saved a nation! (Esther 4:16)

When William Wallace said, “Every man dies, not every man really lives…they may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom!”(6) he was burning the ships.

When God imparted His heart for America to me in 2000; when He showed me His great need for a strong America, loyal to Him; when He made it clear to me that America’s destiny, given by Him, was to trumpet the gospel of the Kingdom to all the nations of the earth; when He and I wept together for three and a half hours over her fallen condition; when I accepted the mantle to see her return to Him through a third great awakening…I burned the ships.

Revival in America is not optional, nor is the intercession required to birth it. The praying army in America has counted the cost, committed to the cause, and determined that they will see this assignment through to a restored and revived America.

Pray with me:

Father, thank You for Your determination to redeem us. Lord Jesus, we thank You for persevering through the incarnation, Cross, and punishment for our sins. Thank You for burning the ships. Likewise, we pledge our allegiance to You and Your cause here and around the world. Indeed, as the Moravian brothers stated, may You receive the reward of Your suffering.

Father, we ask for an infusion of new strength and determination to those praying to see America revived and transformed. May we be found faithful as we serve Your purpose in our generation. We thank You for the incredible calling You have on our nation. We have repented for rejecting it and turning from You. Now we appeal to You, as did our Founders, deliver us from the strongholds of evil that have bound us. Give us a fresh start. Cause the fires of revival to burn in our nation as never before. We pray for the children, youth, and young adults of America. We have allowed filth and lies to be poured into our nation for six decades. This caused such severe spiritual decay and loss of truth that most of this young generation has seen no true representation of You. Having been fed lies and deception, they need Your powerful intervention and rescue. Come and save them!

Again today, we pray for our government; it is out of control, ruled by evil. Lies abound, injustice is rampant, unrighteous laws are enacted, and our government is now weaponized against its citizens. Bring down these evils. Expose them. Continue to awaken the American people to the corruption. We pray for those on the front lines of this battle against the giant of unrighteous government. Give financial support to those spending millions to fight this battle; give them great endurance and faith. Work miracle after miracle to turn the tables on the darkness ruling our land. And concerning this upcoming election, give us righteous individuals in our government.

We pray these things in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Our decree:

We declare that we will never back down in our prayers – we have burned the ships. And America SHALL be saved.

Click on the link below to watch the full video.

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1. Szalay, Jessie, and Tom Garlinghouse. “Hernán Cortés: Conqueror of the Aztecs.” Live Science, 17 August 2022, https://www.livescience.com/39238-hernan-cortes-conqueror-of-the-aztecs.html. Accessed 16 July 2024. 

2. “The Delegates Behind the Declaration (Dec 62, Vol:14 Issue:1).” AMERICAN HERITAGE, https://www.americanheritage.com/we-mutually-pledge-each-other-our-lives-our-fortunes-and-our-sacred-honor. Accessed 16 July 2024.

3. “‘Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!’” Colonial Williamsburg, 3 March 2020, https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/. Accessed 16 July 2024.

4. Hughes, Amanda. “Lewis Morris: Major General in the New York Militia, Delegate to the Second Continental Congress, and Signer of the Declaration of Independence.” Constituting America, 22 April 2021, https://constitutingamerica.org/90day-dcin-lewis-morris-major-general-new-york-militia-delegate-second-continental-congress-signer-declaration-of-independence-guest-essayist-tom-hand/. Accessed 16 July 2024.

5. “Missionaries Against Terrible Odds | Christian History Magazine.” Christian History Institute, https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/missionaries-against-terrible-odds. Accessed 16 July 2024.

6. Gibson, M. Braveheart. Paramount Pictures. 1995. Quote attributed to William Wallace.

October 30, 2024

YOUR Prayers and Efforts Matter!

It is exhilarating to be part of Spirit-led and empowered gatherings, whether with a handful of intercessors, several hundred in a service, hundreds of thousands in an outdoor gathering, or millions on the internet. And I suppose it is normal after experiencing Holy Spirit’s powerful leadership and blessing on these occasions to make statements about “shifting things,” “turning things around,” and so on. Perhaps it is even a healthy expression of our belief in the power of prayer. 

However, some statements made after gatherings of this nature reveal a concerning lack of understanding and create confusion. I sometimes hear comments like, “The turnaround began [or ended] when we prayed…” 

This is not only immature, it’s misleading. Let me state emphatically: America’s recovery/turnaround did not begin, is not continuing, and will not be completed because of one gathering, group, or event. Every prayer, person, and effort matters. Every act of obedience (including voting), every dollar sowed to fund turnaround efforts, every Spirit-led decree, the actions of righteous people in government (and running for government), the talents of those gifted to help them, every sermon boldly declaring God’s Word, the sacrifices of every faithful worker in engaged congregations, every prayer – whether prayed by the alone person no one will ever see, by moms and dads in their homes, or by many on a stage – they’re all important parts of God’s orchestrated effort to turn America. 

All of them. 

Don’t be misled or discouraged by statements otherwise. Your involvement matters! Your prayer is essential! It is just as important as that of any apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher, Congress member, TV personality, or anyone else on the planet. Please realize this and don’t ever forget it. 

With this in mind, I want to ask you to continue praying for the upcoming elections. My friend Jay Comiskey has some great suggestions for doing so. Jay shares:

“Please consider one final prayer assignment for this election:

• Praying for your polling place!

• Pray for the integrity of the voting process in your state

  
  

These things can be done by any intercessor willing to pray and declare the release of God’s Kingdom over this year’s election process.

“We are privileged to vote in America. The last day for doing so is Tuesday, November 5, 2024. This is what we call ‘Election Day,’ however, most states allow the option of absentee voting, voting by mail, or some type of early voting. States have different deadlines and rules that govern these alternatives.

“Many of you have already voted early. My wife and I have. It was simple. I was encouraged by how many friends and neighbors were also voting early. One official told me it was the biggest “early election” they have ever facilitated in our city!

“The 2020 election raised many concerns about voter fraud and election integrity. It remains a top prayer concern. This year, millions of people will cast their votes at thousands of polling places. Let’s ‘hit the target’ (one of the meanings of the Hebrew word for intercession, paga) and intercede for every designated polling place AND the process of counting ballots throughout your state and our country. 

“Prayer walk your polling place. There is a true sense of purpose when we walk around a designated prayer target, like a polling site, and ask the Lord to surround it and intervene. Weekends or evenings are the best time to do this so as not to cause concerns or generate controversy. As my children were growing up, I would often take time on weekends to walk around the public or Christian school, and later on around the university they were attending. I would pray for divine protection, asking for God’s guardian angels to protect my children and all who attended the school. I would ask for Holy Spirit’s intervention and a strong witness for Christ at their schools. Most importantly, I would pray for ‘God’s Kingdom to come and His will be done!’

“So far this month, I have prayer-walked the church where we normally vote (our polling place) and the civic building where we filled out our ‘early voting’ ballots. Nothing complicated, just a simple, ‘on target’ prayer. I asked for Holy Spirit to shed His light and power over each part of the polling process in my city and state. I asked the Lord to reveal any area where voter fraud could occur. I prayed for godly men and women who work the election process to have discernment and courage to reveal any evil they discover. And I interceded for each person who has not yet voted, asking that they be motivated to vote, and do so for righteousness. This would include the following choices people will make:   

• The President 

• U.S. Senate Candidates (1/3 of Senators are up for re-election)

• U.S. House of Representatives (all 435 Congressmen and Congresswomen must run for re-election every two years.)

• Some states have added an amendment to their ballot, requiring one to be a citizen of the United States to cast a vote

• Any other offices or initiatives on the ballot to be voted on

  
  

“The whole body of Christ must pray for a mighty release of God’s power and scrutiny on every polling place (and the entire voting process in their state). Let’s ask Holy Spirit to reveal every breach of integrity in this election. ‘… let God be true and every man a liar’ (Romans 3:4). It is a privilege to vote. It is an even greater privilege to PRAY! Let’s PRAY for a mighty outpouring of His Kingdom during this election season. Amen, and amen!”

Pray with me:

Father, we know that it isn’t only the generals in the Officer’s Tent that win wars; it’s the soldiers on the battlefield laying it all down for the cause. Thank You for raising up a faithful prayer army around the world. From the bottom of my heart, I thank You for every one of them. From the heartfelt prayers of the solitary widow, to the fervent prayers of thousands in massive gatherings, they are essential, and I know You hear them all. 

And I thank You for the efforts of all - leaders in congregations, workers at polls, those who mailed letters, candidates running for offices, faithful biblical value voters, and those who have given money. Thank You for every effort. 

Now, we ask You to motivate this army to finish well. Allow no over-confidence, passivity, or weariness to control us. Keep us stirred, motivated, and determined. Inspire many to do as Jay suggested. We ask that there not be one polling place or vote-counting location that isn’t prayed over. Not one. And in this election, give us the turnaround we need. 

We continue to pray for the safety of Trump and those around him. Shield them, we pray. According to Matthew 16:18-19, we bind every attempt to harm them. And we pray all of this in the mighty name of Jesus, who has all authority in heaven and on earth. Amen. 

Our decree:

We declare that the Ekklesia will finish the assignment of ushering in revival, turnaround, and harvest. We will finish well!

Thank you, Jay, for reminding us to take another step in praying for the integrity of our upcoming elections.

Click on the link below to watch the full video.