February 17,2024 Today five of us traveled to Lake Pleasant where the New Waddell Dam is located. At our first stop we stood on the balcony of the Discovery (Welcome) Center and prayed and made decrees over the New Waddell Dam and Lake Pleasant. To give a brief history as cited in Wikipedia "The New Waddell Dam is an embankment dam on the Agua Fria River in Maricopa County, Arizona, 35 miles northwest of Phoenix. It serves as part of the Central Arizona Project (CAP) while also providing water for the Maricopa Water District. The dam creates Lake Pleasant with water from the Agua Fria River and also the CAP aqueduct. In addition, it affords flood protection, hydroelectric power production and recreational opportunities. Construction on the dam began in 1985 and ended in 1994. Its reservoir submerged the Old Waddell Dam which was completed in 1927 after decades of planning."
Lake Pleasant is named after engineer Carl Pleasant. After 30 years of struggling with funding William Beardsley hired Carl to assist with the design. Psalm 30:1 I (we) will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me ( Arizona) up, and hast not made my (our) foes to rejoice over me (Arizona). The name Carl means “Free man”. John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall set you free, ye shall be free indeed. We decreed that Lake Pleasant and the Waddell Dam are free from any deeds of evil and nefarious acts that would try to come against it including terrorism, pollution, chemical and biological agents, breaches, poisoning, and any acts of destruction and devastation. The original dam was named Pleasant Dam. The Lord reminded us of Psalm 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Pleasant Dam was originally inaugurated in February 1928. In Februay 2024 we re-inaugurated this dam by decreeing Psalm 91 !
Next we walked down a path and sat at picnic table over looking the lake and prayed. We felt the presence of the Lord strongly. We decreed Isaiah 35:6 "Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert." One of the interecessors in our group read through some of the past prohetic words for Arizona given by Dutch and Chuck when they did the 50 state tour. I read a couple of the past prayers that Chaplan Seaborn Crutchfield prayed in the days of the Arizona State Constitutional Convention in 1910 as well as the Arizona Preamble and the Motto "God Enriches" . We made many decrees and prayed through the scriptures that highlighted the waters. Another intercessor as she was praying in the Spirit, the Lord reminded her of past prayer events that happened several years ago when intercessors went around the area and sowed the seeds of prayer here in Arizona.
After praying for a bit we walked down the path to the lake and as we stood above the water we poured oil into the water and decreed the waters of Lake Pleasant are anointed by the Lord and his protection and safety are upon the lake and the dam and the entire water supply system in Arizona. We threw salt into the water and decreed the waters are cleansed from any bitterness/contamination and made sweet/pure.
Lastly as I was praying this week I heard the Lord say "cast the stone". The Lord led me to Jeremiah 51:59-64 "The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince. So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon. And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words; Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever. And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah." The Lord told me to take one of the stones I had gathered from the Verde River when we did the Command the Foreword assignment and write the scripture reference Jer. 51:59-64 on the stone, annoint the stone with oil and cast it into the lake as a prophetic act. So I took the stone and cast it into Lake Pleasant and decreed that the system of Babylon that is trying to overtake America will sink and that it shall not rise from the evil the Lord is bringing upon it and it and those associated with Babylon's plan shall be made weary !!! At the end we all took communion and thanked the Lord. It was a beautiful morning and there was a great unity of prayer among us.
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