Some Ramblings and Praise

Dear Brothers & Sisters:

Many thanks for all the support and prayer that we received for this past weekend in Maine. It was an incredible time of prayer, worship and fellowship.

Some highlights.

Strategy meeting

We met yesterday morning to strategize. We had a time of prayer, communion and discussion. Ralph shared a dream his son had . The dream was that some people were helping a full size cat have a baby that was a crow that was being released out a window. This crow was the same crow that killed Richard the Lionhearted.  Linda and Tina went and researched the death of this King. They brought us information that indicated his death was due to "applauding" a bowman that was taking aim at him, receiving an arrow in his shoulder that he did not remove and gangrene killed him. We all felt that pride and arrogance were keys to work against in our own lives. The meeting was very productive time and we all felt that communication could break down between us and we had to work on it.

After lunch we gather in the sanctuary at Mountaintop. As Linda and Amy led worship, prayers and words came forth. Rich, Ralph and I were blown away as others who were not in our morning meeting, added confirmation after confirmation to what we had seen and discussed.

The blow away was as a man named Jim shared two words the Lord had him write out the night before. One off those words was the dream that Ralph's 12 year old had! We could not believe it. It was one of those chairos moments that we talk about. Worship was so precious.

Thank you Lord.

Youth

The night before where we stayed there were young people praying for hours. They had begun at 8 and when we went to bed at 11:30 I could still hear them pounding the heavens. They would come out and tell us what they saw in heaven as many of them were visiting heaven. One young man had been told by the Lord that he could not come to heaven until he went down the road to a church and waited. Folks, it was 5 degrees out! He ran down the road and lay on a bench in front of the UU Church in town. The Lord released him and within a few feet he met a girl and invited her back to "church." As she entered these youth started praying for her and reading her mail.  Was she wowed!

Please pray for the 19 year old pastor as he shepherds this group of some 40-50 young people.

I believe this is what God is releasing on the earth in this hour.

Maine was totally awesome. We had a wonderful time and are looking forward to our return. The county we hold our meeting in March is Washington County. First president's name. I suggest we watch for what comes out of this region.

As one of our friends said over the weekend, "I believe this will be the very best of years and the very worst of years. " As you read the letter below, I hope you will be turned to prayer.

On Saturday morning I read the book of Ecclesiastes. My heart went out to a man who could have had it all. And by earth standards he did. For years we have said there will be no gray areas. And each time the separation between dark and light gets wider, we think it and say it again.

New England was and is destined for greatness. What is your place and position? My wife tells me I am too political, some of my friends say I am a rabble rouser. When I looked that up, I found it to be one that stirs up the masses, as to hate or violence. Initially, I was shocked by the definition, but then I realized I do hate hell and a form of violence is required to see the world change for God. So, I am ok with it.

What do we do here? Certainly I do not pretend to have all the answers, but as I looked around our small gathering of worship and the presence of God came in in a mighty way, I realized it doesn't take many. If only each person on this list, lifted their voice to heaven and shut the gates of hell, we would see a move of revival proportions.

Now, I would say prayer and worship can not only be the answer, but the beginning of the answer. A loud voice brought down the walls of Jericho but a people were needed to plunder it. Where are the people. If we hole up in church buildings and Christian communes removing us from the possibility of being salt and light to a dark and dying world, we have not understood the words of Jesus. Can this day we re-evaluate our stance on this concept and visit where we have been wrong  and change it?

People tell me that homosexuals and witches frighten them or scare them. I have thoughts like that too, but if I do not reach out, who will? Let's get rid of the pigeonholing mentality of who is fivefold and who is not.  It is about us doing the stuff. My young friend, the 19 year old pastor, was the subject of a letter that told people to avoid him. Why? Because he shows young people the way to heaven? And they go there? Come on! While Moses was running towards the mountain the others ran away from it.

When was the last time that I spent 18 hours in prayer(Without looking at watches...) and felt good about it? That's what a group of these young people did. This weekend they had already passed the 3.5 hour mark when we went to bed.

As I read the letter below, I know we are in a time of shift. My heart is that God can change a nation overnight. If one of us can put a thousand to flight and 2 of us ten thousand, what can the penned words of a believer do to a statesman? (15 years ago I ran a campaign for a friend and at the time the average senate letter response to an issue did not exceed 45. I recognize with email it is much higher, so ask yourself who is sending these messages.)

Today, can we take a look and see what is real? Wherever we are it is because we choose it. Wherever we want to be it will be because we choose it.

News

Many of you have perhaps hear of what is happening in NH in the legislature. I enclose a letter from a friend in NH. I hope you will pray. If you live in NH, I think it is evident what you must do.

Dear NHA Friends,

 

            I just got off the phone with Karen Testerman of Cornerstone Policy Research and I realize that the battle for the NH fight for traditional marriage is in trouble.

 

            We lost badly at the hearing that took place this week and if we lose this effort judicial activism has the potential to introduce the horrors that we have seen elsewhere like:

·        In MA, David Parker was told by the court he couldn't prohibit his 6 year old from opting out of the homosexual curriculum in his school.

·        In Canada the lesbians sued the church because they were told they couldn't rent the church hall for their gay wedding.

·        The group advocating gay marriage in NH has a MA "married" homosexual couple that are ready to claim the "Maryland strategy" to force NH courts to prohibit gender discrimination in marriage.

 

            So far we have been too slow to respond to this critical need.  At this point we are asking all of you to take action to get back in the game before it is too late.  Here is where we are at:

 

          In short, the House Judiciary committee has 22 members and 9 are with traditional marriage and Karen says we need 12.  Next, we need 2/3 of the House to approve this which will take a state-wide press from the church and this vote could take place toward the end of February.  Again, we are looking for you to take action by bringing this to your churches and then calling your legislators ASAP.

http://www.article8.org/docs/news_events/parker/main.htm#section1

Humbly submitted,

Lee

March 25th-  University Of Maine, Machias, Maine

It appears that on Friday the 24th, we will have a time of worship and intercession to break things open. Our meeting will start at 8AM with Rich Brink and Ralph Ackley.

This meeting is designed to reach witches and practitioners of the arts or craft, so that we can show them God's love.

For more information, please contact me.

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