I remember as a child looking at the Church and thinking “those are the guys who have the answers.” When I wanted to ask Jesus into my heart at 10 years old, I told my mom I was going to be late getting back from Sunday School, I wanted to ask my teacher to lead me to Jesus. Mom wasn’t saved yet, but she took me to church because she was searching too. I’ll never forget that Sunday, I was a painfully shy child, but I walked boldly to my teacher to ask her to lead me to Jesus. From that point on, I consumed the Bible at home. This is where I found my food, but the Church is where I could go find my answers on the tough questions, like how to apply and utilize the Word of God in my everyday life. I was hungry and asked many questions about the Bible and I probably kept her on her toes the rest of year. I loved Church and was there every chance I had.

God began to impart into me my heritage. As I matured, I saw the nation in front of me as my mission field. I didn’t call it “my inheritance” but I sure wanted to make everyone my brother and siter in the Lord.

Mom and I travelled across the country a lot to see our family in Michigan, as we drove, I fell in love with this country, I wanted to see every inch and with each mile, God put a greater love of my inheritance into my heart. I didn’t realize what was happening then, but today I understand, He was showing me the nation through His eyes and imparting into my heart the very passion with which I fight for her today.

Today I am going to speak to the Church, but it is with that love that I approach this topic.

Isaiah 59:1-17

This could easily be read over our nation… “truth has fallen in the streets”

In other words: Truth cannot stand in the city square, and those who stand for truth, become a prey to the wicked. Is this not what we are seeing today through media and academia?

This entire passage demonstrates how sin by the people of God, separated Israel from God, and what the result of that separation was. The only recourse is to send the Redeemer.

The Redeemer came, He lived a sinless life, he endured a brutal death and on the third day rose again. He ascended into heaven leaving us with the Holy Spirit, literally the Spirit of Holiness, to dwell within us that we might be His outstretched hands in the earth.

We are the Ecclesia; those who do the will of God in the earth. As such, just like when I was a child and believed the Church had the answers, the Church is supposed to have the answers still today. We have the Truth, the Light, and the Spirit of Holiness to guide us every step of the way. We, the Ecclesia, must be the ones to demonstrate “The Way”—the way of Christlikeness, the way of Truth, and the way of looking at the events around us through a Biblical lens and acting accordingly.

On August 27th, I delivered the Word of the Lord for 2027—the year of Separation (from the world).

The following is a portion of that word addressing the Church.

On July 19, 2026, I had another dream. In this one, the Lord was chiseling the Church from its own hard casing. I knew it was the Church because it was represented by those one-room Churches with the steeple that were built in the early days of our nation.

The same thing was happening with the Church that happened with the nation, the Lord meticulously chiseled away to dislodge us from a place we’d settled into. I saw drops of water dripping onto the Church as He chiseled away, I looked up to see where it was coming from, the Lord was weeping, He was weeping over the Church. This gripped my heart and I saw the Church through His eyes as He worked. I often felt I could not breathe through the grief. (Isaiah 59:16 speaks of the intercessor)

The Church was cluttered and convoluted. It was filled and then encased with the social gospel, cultural Marxism, an embracing of sin, knowingly, to fill the pews instead of standing for Truth to change the heart. There was an utter compromise of some pastors in terms of sin and the Word of God and He was dealing with it right then and there. This is going to be a heavy season for the Church because God is preparing it to house Revival and disciple those who come into the Kingdom through it, it must be purified.

Pray for the Church to be purified, to hunger and thirst for God like never before, if God has given you a burden, weep my friends, weep for the Church. The Lord is weeping over the Church, should we not do the same?

August 2, 2026, I had part two of this dream. The Church, like the nation, was soft and supple in the palm of our Lord. He was tediously pulling out the last vestiges of debris and until it was a heart of flesh and it began to beat.

I saw the outcome here; the Church became a new refined house of God. They were dedicated to prayer and the Word. Truth emanated from the Church so much so, it became the epicenter of Truth. I saw them rise and flourish in the earth. It was not a monetary thing; it was a flourishing that spread across the nation and then beyond our borders. It was like a grassy field after the start of the rainy season—it quickly transitions from a dry and brittle wasteland to a green and supple landscape.

The youth were drawn to the Church like a magnet. Their desire was to experience God’s presence, to seek Truth, to find Truth and the Church was filling them up to capacity.

We do not realize how much the American Church impacts the health and vitality of the world-wide Church, but we will in the days ahead.

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What do we do here? Isaiah 59:16a says 16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. This tells us the influence the intercessors have on the future of both the nation and the Church. The Church must get out of the stone and in order to be ready for what God has prepared. As it stands, the Church cannot function, influence, or impact anything when it is stuck in a rock. We did not used to be this way. The American Church was a firebrand in this land.

From the earliest days pastors would incorporate current events into their sermons. They covered every issue impacting the community within the colonies so their congregation would always have a Biblical worldview and as such, could shape the culture of our nation to reflect Christ. Pastors delivered messages on everything from taxation to marriage to the Church’s responsibility to engage in elections. This is very important for us to note because those messages are foundational in maintaining and retaining the culture of the nation. As the population grew, local legislation was passed, by Christians, to protect the minds of our children from deception. In 1642 the state of Massachusetts (along with Connecticut) passed the “Old Deluder Satan Law.” Why? “To prevent illiteracy and to prevent the abuse of power over a population ignorant of Scripture as had been the case in Europe.” The law required a teacher to be appointed once the community reached 50 householders to teach children to read and write. Our children learned to read the Bible in the earliest days of our country because those who came here understood that God had given this land to the Church for an inheritance, and if they were to retain and maintain their inheritance, they needed to equip the next generation to nurture their inheritance. The cycle was supposed to continue until the Lord’s return.

Where are we today? In Massachusetts, the very place the “Old Deluder Satan Law” was drafted up and passed 384 years ago, just signed into law the protection of a woman’s right to abortion up to birth, with no-restrictions. They call it “reproductive rights” God calls it murder. This is the same state where the Clancey trial was and today, Clancey is wrongfully being lifted as a “goddess incarnate” by feminists around the state and even the nation after brutally murdering her three children. Interesting how the enemy slowly, methodically weaseled his way in and corrupted one of the first colonies that fought to protect children from that “old deluder Satan” and now they are legislating the murder of children in the womb and they are playing a significant role in setting a precedence for murder to be justified by a mental health crisis. You see, the Clancey case is more dangerous than you realize, it demonstrates to us how successful Marxism has been at influencing the culture. 20 years ago, she would not have a single supporter outside the courthouse, today she has thousands. In addition, there’s the danger of setting a legal precedence for others to use mental health to justify horrendous, murderous actions. I understand people do battle mental health issues, and sleep deprivation intensifies this, I really do have a great deal of compassion for those struggling in this area. However, three lives have been taken, there still needs to be accountability, there needs to be justice.

Instead, Clancey is being touted a hero, and the loan juror who felt she needed to be held accountable, has been vilified for not setting her free.

This is the danger of Cultural Marxism, everyone is a victim of oppression via the government, the system, the patriarchy, and so on, and as such, they cannot be held responsible for their actions. That’s when we look at the passage “Truth has fallen in the streets” and realize we are living it today. The Social Justice warriors have turned Clancey into the champion or posterchild of their next cause. There’s already been two copycats.

What is the Church going to do about it? The Church must stand up and demand justice for Cora, Dawson and Callan—her children. Pastors, leaders, teachers need to help their congregations understand the tragedy of this situation through a Biblical lens. We can be compassionate while still demanding justice.

We can begin by ejecting the anti-God, Cultural Marxist, Social Justice warrior garbage from our pulpits!

This is why Jesus is carving away at the Church ideology today, it’s going to be rough, and the Church really needs our prayer. The year of separation is going to be felt most severely by the Church. The Lord is going to separate us from the world so we can will see a clear delineation between the Ecclesia and the compromised.

I’ve spoken on this many times because the Lord keeps my heart deeply troubled over the condition of the Church these days, but the Word keeps coming to me “Truth has fallen in the streets” (Isaiah 59:14) and my friends, we cannot expect the world to maintain truth, especially when the Church has fallen so far from it themselves.

Why is the Church stuck in the stone? The answer is two-fold:

Since day one, we have been called to come up, out of the world and into God. We are called to represent Truth, justice, and righteousness. Yet, instead of retaining and maintaining what He’s given us, instead of walking in the principles found in His Word, we’ve compromised His Word and swung wide the doors of our sanctuaries to a seeker friendly, anti-repentant, destiny-denying, social religion.

I did some digging to see if there’s a correlation between the decline of the American Church and the decline of our nation as a whole and found there is a direct correlation between them, and we see the fruit of it today. I want to address just a few things that we can see have huge ramifications still today. But know this, the decline was not quick; it was a slow descent led by one compromise after another. Much of which could have been prevented if the Church had intervened.

A. Cultural individualism after the 1960s. Sexual ethics, contraception, abortion, and later LGBT issues moved faster in the broader culture than in most churches. Churches that adapted to those cultural issues lost distinctiveness; churches that didn’t adapt lost people who wanted to embrace the new norms. I could stop right here, and we’d have the heart of the issues. This is our heritage, our treasure, and it’s being tainted by sin and instead of resisting and rejecting the invasion, we embraced the sin.

B. Academia. The Bible was the foundation of our educational system but by the 1960s it was removed by activists. In addition, more secular education coupled with an environment inhospitable to a public demonstration of faith, especially Christianity, served to pushing people away from Church. Our children were given an anti-God education, hate-speech laws were enacted, and those without a foundation and acceptance of the Bible, Prayer, even Creationism, drifted further and further from Truth because they no longer were receiving an anchor to truth. No wonder truth has fallen in the street…

C. The Church itself. Mainline churches received a specific diagnosis from sociologists because churches helped spread diversity, promote individual autonomy, and preached tolerance so successfully that they ultimately made themselves optional. Sociologists deem their efforts a “cultural victory and an organizational defeat.”

To recap, progressively speaking, in 1962 the Bible was removed from schools, in 1963 Prayer were removed from schools, then in 1973 we had Roe v Wade, and in 1975 the first seeker-friendly congregation “Willow Creek” began in Chicago. Whether they realized it or not, by not speaking up and by entering into levels of compromise we had no business entering, the church hopped on the fast track right into the will and ways of the world. We are supposed to lead people to the Truth, not watch as it falls in the street.

While a lot of this was a targeted agenda with the 45 Goals of Communism, and the KGB’s four stages of Destabilization, the Church still had the responsibility to recognize the error as it approached and to then immediately tear it down. It’s not too late, the responsibility to fight remains today.

Isaiah 59:1-17 lists everything that we have seen occurring in our own nation, much of this is within the Church itself and it all began with compromising truth.

Let’s address the second point.

The Church has either forgotten or rejected the notion that America was God’s gift to the Church. In fact, whatever nation God placed you in, that nation is your inheritance. How are you treating your inheritance?

Are you nurturing your inheritance? I can tell you as a prophetic intercessor, that the American Church is not nurturing or investing in their inheritance as one would if they truly understood the value of that inheritance. It is our treasure, are we protecting it?

While heaven is our ultimate inheritance, that does not negate the importance of maintaining and retaining our temporal inheritance.

When I was a kid, my aunt came to live with us and took care of me while Mom worked. My aunt had this yellow hatchback Ford Pinto. Mom had a white Camaro she’d driven for a while but then she purchased a newer car. She planned to give the Camaro to my aunt. Before she did, wanting to give my aunt something that would last, she took it to the shop to prepare it for my aunt. She had a complete inspection, tune-up, oil change, new tires, etc., and then she had it detailed. Mom mopped our garage floor, so it’s not like her car would need that detailing, but she had it detailed for my aunt, passing this treasure on to her to bless her. I look back at that today and see in some small way, how mom was preparing an inheritance for my aunt and teaching her how to care for that inheritance once she received it.

The Church must care for the nation like this, have it detailed, swap out the tires, get it tuned up, reclaim that heritage that is ours.

Let me share the following from Mom’s message on the 9R’s. This is under Reclamation:

The Lord spoke to Mom (Nita) very powerfully and told her the following:

• The land of America is the American Church’s heritage, a gift of love from above. We need to see it as our heritage and seek to protect it as such. He wants us to have the same love for America that He does.
• The reason America is in the trouble she is in now is because the Church has not kept the land in their hearts as a heritage from the Lord thus watching over it in righteousness.
• When the Church returns to a place of nurturing this nation in righteousness, America will return to the proper Fatherhood role it has been called to among the nations of the world.

In other words, we have not retained and maintained what God gave us. We don’t sow into healthy churches; we don’t support solid work that honors God and spreads the Gospel. We don’t train up the next generation in the will and ways of God. We don’t teach our congregations how to view things through the lens of the Word and instead, many are teaching their congregations how to welcome in and embrace the ways of the world. This is not love, this is not evangelism, this is not leading men to repentance before God so they metanoeo – so thoroughly repent that they think and act completely different afterwards—this is leading people to hell and causing the deterioration of our inheritance in the process.

As leaders, we need to teach the next generation the importance of maintaining this nation as their own heritage. Teach them how to invest in the inheritance—invest in the lives of those around them, the Church, and the nation in which we live.

My heart is heavy over this, this is a strong word yes, because if the Lord is weeping over the Church, the intercessors need to weep with Him.

I’m going to ask again; how do we get the Church out of the stone? Well, the Church needs to ask themselves some hard questions and then be actively engaged in the answers. Pastors, teachers, worship leaders, evangelists, apostles, and the congregation all need to think about and ask themselves these questions.

• Knowing America is our inheritance, what kind of nation do you want to leave for your children?
• Do you want them to have religious freedom? Do you want them to be able to share the Gospel with their friends, take a Bible to work, and speak truth without the risk of imprisonment?
• Do you want abortion on demand or a nation that honors life in the womb?
• Do you want war or revival?
• Do you want to live in a nation in which the feminist movement has advanced so far that a mother can brutally murder her three children and instead of facing justice, she becomes a hero, “a goddess incarnation” to that movement? Because that’s what feminism has descended to these days.
• Do you want to live in a nation where politicians running for office openly mock Christianity and freely name their favorite drag queen right off the cuff like Talarico? Do we want politicians who blaspheme our Lord and Savior, embrace Islam, and believes kids should be allowed to switch genders? Incidentally, Talarico is leading in one of our nation’s most conservative states. I had a dream that they flipped Texas several years ago, those of you from Texas better be praying because somehow, someway, Talarico is in the lead in Texas.

Once we get our answers, we need to take them before the Lord and do three things:

 

• Open our Bible and see what His Word has to say on these issues. (When it comes to inheritance, you can start with the Scriptures on Covenants.)
• Repent for what does not line up with His Word and determine to make the necessary changes
• Pray and ask the Lord how to implement the necessary changes. For our personal lives this can be simple, but if we are leaders in the Church, it will be more challenging. We cannot run from the challenge. We are fighting for our inheritance.

That leads me to my last point because this point alone can make a tremendous difference in all the issues I mentioned above. We are still one of the few nations that allows the people to vote on policy and policymakers.

Are we, as leaders in the Church, teaching our congregations the responsibility—as Christians fighting for our inheritance—that importance of voting in every election? Secondly, are we teaching our congregations how to vote Biblically?

I’m asking because the 2026 Midterms are the most consequential midterms of our lifetimes. We need to be praying with great intensity every day over these midterms, but we also need to get out and vote. If the Church doesn’t vote, the Lord will hold us responsible for the outcome of the election because voting impacts everything in one way or another that I’ve listed above.

Why? As Christians, we have the spiritual backing of our Lord to be incredibly influential, but we also have the numbers to be incredibly influential. There are 90 million self-identified evangelical Christians in our country. Which means we are the largest voting block in America!

So, what’s the problem? 45 million do not vote, and half of those are not even registered to vote.

If we would get out and vote in every election, we would not have things like “reproductive rights” code for “abortion on demand” written into state constitutions. We would not have same-sex marriage initiatives written into our state constitutions. We would not sit idly by while they pass laws that grant access to transgender drugs for children. We would not have transgender dolls being handed out to children to decide which gender part they want to have on today.

Is that the treasure, the inheritance we want to hand over to our children? Are we really preparing them to embrace a heritage of sin, debauchery, and murder? Or are we ready to rise up and get in the fight?!

I encourage you to read Isaiah 59, spend time repenting over the things listed in that passage that we are dealing with here in our nation. This is our Heritage my friends, may we protect and preserve it for the next generation.

Last week I saw the Angelic Host of the 9Rs and they are here for some serious work in the Church and the nation. I’ll be talking about that vision next week and the impact of their work on both the Church and the Nation.

Blessings & love,
Ricci Johnson-Wilson