From March 1, 2001 to June 1, 2001 as in times past, the Holy Spirit confirmed to me that total war was coming. But I felt that He said if we prayed it could take as short as 3 days, or 3 months and if we missed our time of prayer as a people it would take as long as 3 years. Thereafter, I was invited to open up a Sunday afternoon church meeting with group prayer. We saw mighty answers during October for our troops. In fact, almost word for word answers to believing prayer. Sometime thereafter this group no longer continued this mission. I asked the Lord to raise up others to fill in the gap. Before the end of 2001 and the beginning of 2002, the Lord continued to speak about Iraq. He gave me a word of hope that they could be saved and that Iran could be saved and that as a result of their salvation, it would make Israel so jealous that they would seek their Messiah. Now, I stress all these situations do not have to happen when we do not pray. Things change incredibly when the church prays as God directs.

I believe that's the warning I was seeing in vision form-that these demon hordes were setting ambushes for our bases in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Turkey - that they were trying to stop any and all revivals among the Iraqis and those in Iran. The Lord also showed me that spirits of infirmity were amassing against our troops - and they were not directly connected to injuries inflicted in battle. And that these spirits would try to come home with them. We have to realize that many Islamic people and the terrorists and all those who really desire war are all puppets under the same demonic influence that I saw in the visions from 12/23 and 2/5. They are being influenced by these demons to wreck havoc and cause chaos. In ways that we may not understand, the stage has been set in a spiritual realm for infiltration by these hordes. Unfortunately, America may not fully understand that these hordes can come back with our soldiers and travel with them. They can also try to convert many of our soldiers to their own religious propaganda. We can all understand now how they can use a war to lie to potential terrorists that an attack against people is warranted. As this situation has been unfolding for a long time, I kept having the impression that an ambush was set in place for this country and for many others in the world. But that if we prayed, the ambush could be avoided. This ambush is not in the natural first, but in the spirit realm first. This is what I was seeing in vision form, these demonic army hordes on their way to instigate chaos and violence.

I want to share a word of true hope from the Lord that I received on February 14, 2002. I have had such a burden for our nation and our President in this area. I believe there needed to be an accelerated time of prayer for Israel while all this was going on because Israel would receive the brunt of this attack, even though she was not directly involved in the Iraq and Al Qaeda issue. Then we here at the ministry could be released to continue to pray for America because America would then experience the backlash in the form of ambush and hardships at home. We continued to pray for other world leaders and that all of our eyes could be opened to the possibility of peace and negotiated disarmament in Iraq with a united front in the countries connected to the United Nations. During a time of unplanned prayer at church, the Lord spoke this word into my spirit: "To me this is like the days of Noah. . . ." I didn't remember exactly where that came from. When I went home, I found it. During the days of Noah, the earth was judged. God used water. For years I have been sensing that judgment is coming again, only this time, the enemy was heavily involved (you can read the feature article). God does not want to bring judgment. He wants to bring Himself in all consuming glory, not the fire of radioactive weapons of mass destruction. Let me quote Isaiah 54:9-10: "To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again. Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed. . ." Saints, some mountains may shake and some hills may disappear before our eyes, but as Isaiah continues:
"Yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the Lord, who has compassion on you. "O afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will build you with stones of turquoise, your foundations with sapphires. I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones. All your sons will be taught by the Lord, and great will be your children's peace."

I sensed strongly that the first part of this Scripture was for us, here in America and that there was a bridge, so to speak, in the sentence, "Yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the Lord, who has compassion on you. And that the promise continued to Jerusalem and our Jewish brethren of rebuilding with the continuance of a new generation in the next sentences, "O afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will build you" . . . . For me this was great comfort that the Lord would not judge the whole world and that our Islamic friends would be saved. For America particularly, He would give her another chance. For Israel, I sensed a new time and a new age of hope in Messiah dawning with a new generation.

As I said before, I began to see the wisdom from the Holy Spirit to keep these prayers to ourselves until the Lord released them to share with you. This way we could bring a word of true encouragement from Isaiah 54 so we could all be stirred to pray. I believe many of you have already been praying along these lines, even though we may have been in different time frames. The first and last visions do not have to come to pass if we pray. For those of you that have not been able to fast and pray along these lines, I ask you to pray in the Holy Spirit and with understanding, in the name of Jesus. As always, if you have any prayer requests, please don't hesitate to email us. We will fast and pray for your requests and keep all requests confidential. God bless you as you travail in the Holy Spirit.

During the first day or so of March the Lord showed me something that I did not understand immediately. I saw a mass of sand-colored uniforms being swirled around like a storm. Knowing that the Lord was trying to show me something, I asked Him how to pray. He told me to pray for our troops. I was pretty exhausted during that week and decided to take a quick nap. Before I dozed off I asked the Lord that if there was anything else to pray for, to please show it to me while I slept. I had a dream that had nine trees in it. Behind me was a very large tree that was called America. I saw hand-held cutting shears trying to trim the nine trees to the will of the United States. I heard the Lord say, pray that all the trees, including the U.S. be trimmed to My will on earth as it is in heaven. Immediately I awoke. I sensed strongly that something would go very wrong with our troops if we went to war at that time. Within days I heard of the sandstorms our military was experiencing. I realized that that was exactly what the vision had looked like. It looked like our sand-colored uniformed troops being swirled about in sand. I don't think we realize how much God desires to protect us. I realize our military believes sand could not be a problem in a war. But I think, from that vision, that the Lord does want us to pray concerning these sand storms. Within days of the dream of the trees, I saw another vision of a mass of people pouring out of Baghdad in one direction. Again, I did not know what this was and the Lord gave me no insight. The next day I was watching the news and heard that a good portion of UN inspectors and some others were leaving Baghdad.

Saints, I feel that what I'm about to say is not out of line with what I believe God has been showing me. I believe that it is satan's desire to cause an offense from a Christian nation in order to unleash a huge tide of Islamic pride and anti-Semitism as an excuse to persecute both Christians and Jews, worldwide. All of this is an attempt to tarnish the name of Jesus among the Muslims so they won't get saved. As this war may continue to unfold, I do believe if we pray nations like France and others could be trimmed to the will of the Lord on earth, just as it is in heaven. God could expose a situation that may soften hearts to realize the benefits of liberating the Iraqi people. This could very well remove the offense that satan would use to instigate Islamic pride to engage in a worldwide campaign of retribution, which would surely be used to hinder the Gospel message of Jesus Christ from going out among them.

March 19, 2003 Additional Entry:
Today during morning prayer, I saw a small group of black masses (these I understood to be a small battalion of demon forces) streaming out of Baghdad in one direction toward Syria. It did not look like they made it into Turkey-but they may have. It was kind of hard to tell exactly where they stopped-because what drew my attention were white flashes of light that I soon realized were bombs going off. These masses were fleeing in the other direction of the flashes of light. I realized that war would take place immediately. Since this update has to be sent early in order to make the April 1st date, I would just ask that you would join us in prayer concerning these sand storms and that the Lord would undertake to bring a more unified front within the nations of the world. Even though they may not be fighting with the English-speaking armies-that they would desire to put aside their differences to close the divide that now exists. I believe if we continue to pray, the remainder of the demonic forces that are there to engage in war will flee before the angels of the Lord. We may possibly have most of the Iraqi armed forces surrender instead of fighting. Please continue to pray about possible ambushes (as the vision from February warned about). We will continue to pray blessing and protection, wisdom and guidance for our President, our leaders and our troops. God Bless you as you pray. Remember that you can always email your prayer requests to us. We keep all requests confidential.