Post by Michael on May 10, 2004 9:07:51 GMT -5
Key Prophetic Words for 2004
In 2004 we are trusting the Lord to continue to lift the death veil that Chuck Pierce prophesied was being torn off of Louisiana. We are proclaiming that Louisiana is releasing life and that a desire for righteousness is flooding our state. We are believing God to continue to release a spirit of fathering that is uprooting the spirit of rejection and healing the reproach and wounding from our past. Dutch Sheets spoke that there was something that had to happen in this state, that had to be transported from here, prayed from here, decreed from here for the rest of the nation. Let it be!
Key Initiatives for 2004
* God surprised us this year with a divine connection with 12 intercessors from a School of Reconciliation in France. The team leader wrote to us that their mandate was to come with love and repentance in their hearts and to open a way of healing for the history and the relationships between Louisiana and France and the USA and France. They were here for two weeks in April, traveling with us to sites in Louisiana and Mississippi for prayer and repentance for their sins and the sins of their forefathers. God showed us that He was breaking the curse in both nations by turning the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers (Malachi 4:6) We desire to hear His plan for the next step of reconciliation with this nation and others so that the iniquity can be removed and Godâ??s purposes released.
* The appeal to the Federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans regarding the repeal of Roe v. Wade is still in deliberation. Pray that righteousness & justice will prevail and that the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade will be overturned.
* Prayer Quake in New Orleans in March with Eddie and Alice Smith birthed a corporate vision to pray for the transformation of the New Orleans region. Agree with us for apostles, prophets, pastors, and intercessors to be identified and networked as well as a multi-generational and multi-cultural identification and link up. Pray for these leaders to maintain the goal of serving one another and seeing His kingdom expanded in this key city in our nation.
* The Louisiana SPN and other prayer networks are coming alongside the Louisiana Outpouring. This vision was birthed in the heart of a medical doctor in Central Louisiana in an effort to bring spiritual awakening and revival to Louisiana through unity, restoration, and anointing. Many pastors from across the state are also co-laboring with this effort. Key Argentine revivalists have been speaking into this vision, among them Claudio Freidzon who ministered at the Outpouring meetings in January of this year.
* The repentance of the French intercessors to Acadian pastors, intercessors, and governmental leaders in South Louisiana brought much healing. Pray that through this time of reconciliation, a strategy will be birthed to release deliverance and revival among the Cajun people.
Issues critical for spiritual breakthrough and revival in our state:
1) Louisiana must come to a fuller revelation of our redemptive gift of giving. Pray:
a) For fear and control to be broken and trust, faith, and dependence on God to arise in the church; b) That we will focus on understanding Godâ??s will and doing it His way so that we will gain authority over the religious spirit; c) That we will allow worship and intercession to come to a new level; d) That through servanthood and true giving and receiving, we will begin to see Godâ??s purposes released.
2) Louisiana will never have enough until we learn to give it away. Pray that we will hear the Lord and obey Him in regard to sowing our worship and our intercession into other states. Pray that we will yield to whatever the Lord has for us to do in terms of aligning, investing, and co-laboring with them.
3) God is answering prayer concerning the growth and networking of the prayer army across our state. We have much ground to gain, but there is a definite shift in this area. Please continue to pray for the networking of apostolic and prophetic leaders as well as other prayer networks and intercessors.
4) God is raising up a number of apostolic and prophetic leaders in the workplace. Pray for a continued release of these individuals as well as an understanding of how God wants us to partner together.
5) There is a major battle in our state legislature this session regarding creating special rights for homosexuals. Please pray that our lawmakers will support a state constitutional amendment banning homosexual marriage and defining marriage as the union between one man and one woman. Pray also that Louisiana legislators will decide to support a complete ban on human cloning. We are networking with Intercessors for Louisiana whose vision is to see every senator and representative in our state adopted by an intercessor. In this critical election year, we are also seeking the Lord as to how we can effectively colabor with others to see the voters in our state informed and spiritually prepared to make a righteous choice in November.
Louisiana History
Indigenous peoples lived and thrived in what is now Louisiana for a few thousand years prior to European exploration. The French explorer LaSalle descended the Mississippi River in 1682 and claimed the land for the French Monarch, Louis XIV. It was not until 1699 that Dâ??Iberville was to establish a permanent French presence in the lower Mississippi Valley. Louis Juchereau de St. Denis founded the first permanent settlement in Louisiana in 1714 with construction of Fort St. Jean Baptiste near present day Natchitoches. Dâ??Ibervilleâ??s brother, Bienville, solidified the French claim to Louisiana in 1718 with the founding of New Orleans. France controlled the Louisiana colony until 1762 when the colony was ceded to Spain under the Treaty of Fountainebleau. Spain ruled the colony until 1800 when the lands west of the Mississippi River were returned to the French in the Treaty of San Ildefonso. In 1803 the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15,000,000. The Louisiana Purchase has been deemed the greatest land acquisition in history, â??changing the balance of world powerâ??.
Through much of its early history Louisiana was a trading and financial center, and the fertility of its land made it one of the richest agricultural regions in America. In 1812 Louisiana was finally admitted to the United States as the 18th state. Relationship with the Union, however, was to be tested by the issues of slavery and states rights. After the Louisiana Purchase, New Orleans became the most active slave market in the entire country. In January 1861 Louisiana formerly seceded from the Union. During the ensuing Civil War, numerous engagements were held in Louisiana , most notably at Port Hudson, where the longest siege campaign of the war took place. After the War, the state endured 12 years of reconstruction, the longest occupation of any of the southern states.
The plantation economy was shattered by the Civil War although the state continued to be a powerful agricultural region. The discovery of sulphur in 1869 and oil in 1901, coupled with the rise of forestry sent the state on a new wave of economic growth. The 20th century saw Louisiana emerge as one of the nationâ??s leading producers of oil, sulphur, sugar and cotton. Eventually, Louisiana became a major American producer of oil and natural gas and a center of petroleum refining and petrochemicals manufacturing, which it remains to this day, ranking second in the nation in oil production.
Native Americans, Africans, Europeans, Americans, Acadians and many immigrants have contributed to the rich and diverse cultural history of Louisiana. Governed under 10 different flags, Louisiana displays one of the most varied and colorful pasts of any of the states.
In 2004 we are trusting the Lord to continue to lift the death veil that Chuck Pierce prophesied was being torn off of Louisiana. We are proclaiming that Louisiana is releasing life and that a desire for righteousness is flooding our state. We are believing God to continue to release a spirit of fathering that is uprooting the spirit of rejection and healing the reproach and wounding from our past. Dutch Sheets spoke that there was something that had to happen in this state, that had to be transported from here, prayed from here, decreed from here for the rest of the nation. Let it be!
Key Initiatives for 2004
* God surprised us this year with a divine connection with 12 intercessors from a School of Reconciliation in France. The team leader wrote to us that their mandate was to come with love and repentance in their hearts and to open a way of healing for the history and the relationships between Louisiana and France and the USA and France. They were here for two weeks in April, traveling with us to sites in Louisiana and Mississippi for prayer and repentance for their sins and the sins of their forefathers. God showed us that He was breaking the curse in both nations by turning the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers (Malachi 4:6) We desire to hear His plan for the next step of reconciliation with this nation and others so that the iniquity can be removed and Godâ??s purposes released.
* The appeal to the Federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans regarding the repeal of Roe v. Wade is still in deliberation. Pray that righteousness & justice will prevail and that the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade will be overturned.
* Prayer Quake in New Orleans in March with Eddie and Alice Smith birthed a corporate vision to pray for the transformation of the New Orleans region. Agree with us for apostles, prophets, pastors, and intercessors to be identified and networked as well as a multi-generational and multi-cultural identification and link up. Pray for these leaders to maintain the goal of serving one another and seeing His kingdom expanded in this key city in our nation.
* The Louisiana SPN and other prayer networks are coming alongside the Louisiana Outpouring. This vision was birthed in the heart of a medical doctor in Central Louisiana in an effort to bring spiritual awakening and revival to Louisiana through unity, restoration, and anointing. Many pastors from across the state are also co-laboring with this effort. Key Argentine revivalists have been speaking into this vision, among them Claudio Freidzon who ministered at the Outpouring meetings in January of this year.
* The repentance of the French intercessors to Acadian pastors, intercessors, and governmental leaders in South Louisiana brought much healing. Pray that through this time of reconciliation, a strategy will be birthed to release deliverance and revival among the Cajun people.
Issues critical for spiritual breakthrough and revival in our state:
1) Louisiana must come to a fuller revelation of our redemptive gift of giving. Pray:
a) For fear and control to be broken and trust, faith, and dependence on God to arise in the church; b) That we will focus on understanding Godâ??s will and doing it His way so that we will gain authority over the religious spirit; c) That we will allow worship and intercession to come to a new level; d) That through servanthood and true giving and receiving, we will begin to see Godâ??s purposes released.
2) Louisiana will never have enough until we learn to give it away. Pray that we will hear the Lord and obey Him in regard to sowing our worship and our intercession into other states. Pray that we will yield to whatever the Lord has for us to do in terms of aligning, investing, and co-laboring with them.
3) God is answering prayer concerning the growth and networking of the prayer army across our state. We have much ground to gain, but there is a definite shift in this area. Please continue to pray for the networking of apostolic and prophetic leaders as well as other prayer networks and intercessors.
4) God is raising up a number of apostolic and prophetic leaders in the workplace. Pray for a continued release of these individuals as well as an understanding of how God wants us to partner together.
5) There is a major battle in our state legislature this session regarding creating special rights for homosexuals. Please pray that our lawmakers will support a state constitutional amendment banning homosexual marriage and defining marriage as the union between one man and one woman. Pray also that Louisiana legislators will decide to support a complete ban on human cloning. We are networking with Intercessors for Louisiana whose vision is to see every senator and representative in our state adopted by an intercessor. In this critical election year, we are also seeking the Lord as to how we can effectively colabor with others to see the voters in our state informed and spiritually prepared to make a righteous choice in November.
Louisiana History
Indigenous peoples lived and thrived in what is now Louisiana for a few thousand years prior to European exploration. The French explorer LaSalle descended the Mississippi River in 1682 and claimed the land for the French Monarch, Louis XIV. It was not until 1699 that Dâ??Iberville was to establish a permanent French presence in the lower Mississippi Valley. Louis Juchereau de St. Denis founded the first permanent settlement in Louisiana in 1714 with construction of Fort St. Jean Baptiste near present day Natchitoches. Dâ??Ibervilleâ??s brother, Bienville, solidified the French claim to Louisiana in 1718 with the founding of New Orleans. France controlled the Louisiana colony until 1762 when the colony was ceded to Spain under the Treaty of Fountainebleau. Spain ruled the colony until 1800 when the lands west of the Mississippi River were returned to the French in the Treaty of San Ildefonso. In 1803 the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15,000,000. The Louisiana Purchase has been deemed the greatest land acquisition in history, â??changing the balance of world powerâ??.
Through much of its early history Louisiana was a trading and financial center, and the fertility of its land made it one of the richest agricultural regions in America. In 1812 Louisiana was finally admitted to the United States as the 18th state. Relationship with the Union, however, was to be tested by the issues of slavery and states rights. After the Louisiana Purchase, New Orleans became the most active slave market in the entire country. In January 1861 Louisiana formerly seceded from the Union. During the ensuing Civil War, numerous engagements were held in Louisiana , most notably at Port Hudson, where the longest siege campaign of the war took place. After the War, the state endured 12 years of reconstruction, the longest occupation of any of the southern states.
The plantation economy was shattered by the Civil War although the state continued to be a powerful agricultural region. The discovery of sulphur in 1869 and oil in 1901, coupled with the rise of forestry sent the state on a new wave of economic growth. The 20th century saw Louisiana emerge as one of the nationâ??s leading producers of oil, sulphur, sugar and cotton. Eventually, Louisiana became a major American producer of oil and natural gas and a center of petroleum refining and petrochemicals manufacturing, which it remains to this day, ranking second in the nation in oil production.
Native Americans, Africans, Europeans, Americans, Acadians and many immigrants have contributed to the rich and diverse cultural history of Louisiana. Governed under 10 different flags, Louisiana displays one of the most varied and colorful pasts of any of the states.