The last few weeks we’ve delved into the Catholic Church, Liberation Theology, Cultural Marxism and the impact of these things on the Church.

I shared last week in particular, the vision the Lord gave of the woman on the operating table, and for the purpose of this message, I am going to quickly review that vision:

In the summer of 2020, I the Lord gave me a vision of our nation. It was in the form of a woman, and it had been in a catastrophic accident. It was placed on an operating table before the Lord. Every part of the body had been impacted by this accident. The Lord was working feverishly to heal it, His hands moved so quickly, they were a blur in front of my natural eyes. I could however, through the Spirit, see particular parts He was concentrating on:

I watched the Lord operate on this woman representing our Nation. As He did, the wounds lifted off the body and He healed and sealed those wounded areas. Throughout this surgery, a golden hue rested upon the woman.

In His mercy, He really was, and is, healing the soul of the nation. I believe, even today, God is doing a deep work on the nation, and it begins with the Church.

Tonight, let’s look at the heart that waxed cold toward Him.

What is the heart of the nation? It’s the Church.

We have two wonderful examples from Scripture. One from the Old Covenant, that would be David. He was a King and Priest, a Prophet, and an Apostle, and he is known as the great unifier of the tribes of Israel under God.

The other is from the New Covenant, that would be the early Church. We can look at the early Church and see the fire of God that rested upon them throughout the book of Acts. They were not without challenges; however, we can see a template God is giving us for our day.

Acts 6 tells us quite a bit about the individuals who comprised the rapid growth of the early Church. We are nearing the first year after the ascension of the Lord and the release of Holy Spirit, and the early church is experiencing rapid growth. We have:

We can see here a unification of people groups under one belief system, that which holds to the Truth of the Gospel message, with Jesus as the Great Unifier. We have people from all backgrounds, Jewish, Priestly lineage, Hellenistic Jews, and soon we will see the grafting in of the Gentiles, all coming together as one body.

We will witness a drastic change across the land as this early Church begins to occupy and shift the culture within the Roman Empire. One might say that they only received more persecution due to their increased numbers, yet the other side of that coin is the massive growth they incurred. The New Covenant makes mention of the growth of the early Church and the people of God nearly 90 times! That’s quite significant.

Remember, the letter to the Romans, one of my favorites, was written to the Church at Rome because the number of Roman citizens being grafted into the Vine, warranted such an incredible Epistle. Even members of the Roman Guard were getting saved! In fact, each of the Epistles written to the Church of Ephesus, Philippians, Corinthians, Thessalonica, Colossians, and the Galatian Church were all written to the Ecclesia within this pagan, Greek culture of the Roman Empire! Jew and Gentile, coming together as one. Why? Despite the persecution they encountered, the Church expanded and needed to know how to live a Christ-centered life in a fallen world, together! They needed to know how to come out of the corruption, idolatry, paganism that ran rampant throughout this empire and live a life sold out to Christ despite the environment, the persecution, the cultural obstacles in which they lived. The Jewish community needed to learn to live with the Gentiles without expecting circumcision. Gentiles needed to learn to stop eating meat that was strangled, sacrificed to idols, consuming meat with the blood, or fornicating, (Acts 15:20)

Everyone was casting off the old ways to embrace the new Christ-centered path He left for them to follow.

The early Church experienced persecution, hunger, rejection by family, enslavement and so on, and in Acts Chapter 7 we will even see our first of many martyrs. Steven, the first one mentioned in this selection of those who would serve the widows. He had the privilege of becoming the first martyr and Acts 6:8 tells us he had great wisdom, and performed miracles, signs and wonders. He did much more than serve tables, he was on fire for God and the Lord used him mightily. After his death, the people fled the persecution headed up by Saul (who becomes Paul) but this caused the Church to spread far and wide. Many went underground as the assaults on the Christians intensified. Even they sought to occupy where they were planted. Again, and again the Bible tells us that in spite of the persecution, the Word of God grew, and the number of Believers multiplied.

Why is it important to know the variety of those individuals included as Believers as we look at the heart of the nation?

Our background does not matter, neither does our race, our nationality, our pigment, our age, whether we are male or female, when we bow the knee to the Cross, repenting for our past, asking Jesus to come in and be Lord of our lives and we submit our will to the will of God, we become children of God and dual citizenship is established (John 3:16). We become ambassadors of His Kingdom to this kingdom here on earth and our responsibility is to seek Him for His Heavenly will to be done here on earth both in the Church and in the nation.

At the end of 2017, the Lord told me that “2018 Would be the Year of Refining Bringing forth the New Breed of Believers.” I’ve been crying out for this new breed of believers for over seven years now.

I’ve asked the Lord what they look like, how He will use them today and in the future. And as I study the early Church, I see them more clearly than ever before. Jesus Prayed for them in John 17:23, Paul taught it to the church of Ephesus in Ephesians 4:3, 13, and Peter instructed the Church with this same message in 1 Peter 3:8. The New Breed of Believers has nothing to do with denominations and affiliations, they are a people who walk together as one, pursuing Christ, anchoring themselves in the Word, standing strong as the watchmen on the wall of their nation, all the while never taking their eyes off of the Kingdom of God.

They are Jew and Gentile, young and old, male and female, coming together as the family of God, under one “roof” if you will. It is here that we can be healed of that which the canker worm has eaten, it’s here that we can be strengthened and equipped for the battles that wage war against us out there, and it’s in this place that the refining work of His Word prepares us for the Matthew 28:19-20 and Mark 16:14-18 commission!

I understand that the Church we see getting exposed today has not been the Church of yesterday. As I shared last week, the Jesuits infiltrated churches nationwide to releases a social Gospel, that Liberation Theology, otherwise known as Cultural Marxism. We saw this tainted church really come to the forefront as activists for social justice rather than proponents for Biblically-sound doctrine.

Yet, something is shifting in the Church. There is a separation occurring. There’s the social church who will continue with their social-justice activism, it will remain full of compromise and that compromise is going to become more and more blatant.

In direct contrast will be the refined Church, those who hunger and thirst for His will and His ways in their lives, their homes, their cities, their states and their nation.

What is the Church called to do within a nation? A few key points:

The letters to the Corinthians teach us that we are not called to submit to or embrace culture. Paul speaks to this point in detail in both of his letters to the Corinthians but especially 1 Corinthians 6, his bottom line is this “don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers.” Why? We are called to be one body, not a giant conglomerate like the Catholic Church, but we are called to be one body in Christ. When we bring cultural issues (most of which involve immorality) into the Church, this causes us to become yoked with a secular system. That system is toxic to the body. When the body becomes toxic, it cannot effectively influence anything.

Ephesians 4:17-19 handles this issue beautifully:

What is Paul saying? When we walk in the vanity of our mind, we are walking in the futile, depraved state of mind. This causes the understanding of our hearts—hearts that should be enlightened by the Truth and the Word of God—to become darkened. It will alienate us from God. When we submit to culture, we become ignorant to the things of God, we become blinded to Truth, our conscious will move past feeling and into a numbed state until we are given over to lasciviousness, uncleanness and greed.

When the Church falls to this level of compromise, they find that one day, in 2024, on the Whitehouse lawn, the transgender community, both male and female, are running around topless and Biden is celebrating them. We see the Minnesota Supreme Court ruling just three days ago, that, and I quote “a woman being topless or otherwise exposing her bare breasts doesn’t inherently qualify as “lewd” under the current Minnesota statute.” In other words, this permits a woman to woman to walk around topless in public without consequence because it aligns with a cultural ideology pushed by that governor. The one who ran on the democrat ticket last year. He’s not the only one! Six other states have statutes that permit this behavior: Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Utah, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Imagine the confusion in children should women start walking around half dressed. It breaks my heart.

Where is the Church? Are they too afraid to stand against this? Do we realize the slippery slope this presents us with?

The Church is NOT called to sit on the sidelines while our children are exposed to such depravity!

What about the cult rising in Texas? The one governed by Sharia law? The Islamic compound currently being proposed and fought for on the basis of “religious freedoms”? Do you know how many middle eastern nations used to be Christian until Islamic compounds moved in and began to influence the culture with their ideology?

What about infanticide? The Washington governor currently has a bill on his desk that would prevent the investigation of infant deaths up to 28 days after birth. Minnesota already has this in place, and full-term babies born during botched abortions are left to die due to an added clause that “prevents physician intervention in botched abortions”. I would call that murder. Virginia has a similar bill; California is on that slippery slope too.

Where is the Church!?! Are we in such rebellion toward God that our hearts have waxed so cold that we no longer fight for our most innocent citizens? My mom saw this very thing coming decades ago. Church, where do we draw the line before we finally intervene?

I want you to know, we are not called to obey or submit to the state if the state is calling us to arenas of sin, or if it is pulling us into a system of compromise. To be clear, I’m not calling for a rebellion or encouraging people to pull out their torches, pitchforks, and battering rams, to storm the Governors mansions or state supreme courts, but I am saying, we are not called to remain silent in situations that result in sin, crimes against humanity, or murder.

In Acts 4:18-20, Acts 5:27-33, Peter and John had to disobey the leadership when they were told to not speak in the name of Jesus. This escalated to the point that, had God not intervened, the Pharisee council would have had them killed.

I believe one of the reasons many Christian obstetricians have retired is because the laws in states like California removed the exception in place that allowed Christian doctors to be obstetricians and decline to perform abortions based on religious beliefs. I believe we are losing teachers in great numbers because they refuse to affirm a child’s preferred gender choice rather than their biological gender. We are losing good therapists for the same reason. They can lose their license for refusing to affirm a child’s preferred gender. In the 1960s, children didn’t deal with this for long, it was simply considered a tomboy stage, and they grew out of it. For adults, it was labelled as “gender dysphoria” and often were institutionalized because they were seen as a potential danger to society.

I do believe the Church should be calling and writing letters to legislatures on these issues, we need to vote out these lewd and lascivious legislatures. I also believe we need to pray for those running in opposition to these corrupt activists/politicians to succeed in their elections. We need to pray for the Hammer of Justice to fall on these bills or overturn legislation where necessary.

Again, the Church is supposed to influence the culture, we are the new breed of believers refusing the compromised walk and embracing the Word of God as our handbook for life. We are among those who take a stand for righteousness and cry out for justice to reign in our nation.

American Christians have a unique opportunity. We are among the only nations in the world where Christians have the freedoms we possess written in our Constitution. However, since we have not used those freedoms as our Founding Fathers intended, we have nearly lost them. We have the freedom to speak our mind but because of cancel-culture we held our tongues in fear. We have the freedom to declare His Word, but because of liberal activists we cannot do so in schools or the workplace. We have the freedom to pray, but again, because of activists we cannot pray out loud or even too close to an abortion clinic.

We have not used the freedoms of religion our Founding Fathers intended, we stayed silent too long and then liberal activists came in and stripped us of those rights.

President Trump came in and set many captives free. On day one, the J6 political prisoners were set free. Four days later, on the eve of the National March for Life, he signed pardons and set the grandmothers, the fathers, and the defenders of the innocent who’d been in prisoned by Biden’s corrupt justice department for praying outside abortion clinics free.

I would advocate that Islamic cults could present some severe trials and tribulations for Christians in Texas and anywhere else they my pop up in our Christian nation the coming days.

I would also suggest that corrupt governors and state supreme courts could pose some significant trials and tribulations for intercessors, pastors, teachers and health care professionals who defend the preborn, the gender confused children, and those who cannot stand up for themselves.

President Trump has set captives free; his department of justice is hunting down the oppressors of the innocent but friends, if we are to see the golden age in the fulness of what God intended, we, the people of God, need to work with him in this effort.

What do I mean? We need to capitalize on the momentum of this hour. The New Breed of Believers must rise and stand for righteousness. We must work to extract ourselves from the corrupt systems until those systems begin to collapse. Remember the Target boycott of 2016? When Target decided it would open their restrooms up for those who identified with a specific gender rather than maintain traditional biological male and female restrooms, the Church took a tremendous stand and within the first quarter, Target backtracked on their decision choosing instead to invest $20 million into single gender-neutral restrooms. That’s a lot of money. I don’t think we realize how much influence we have, not because we are super special in the eyes of man, but because we choose to follow the footsteps of our Lord.

I shared the following vision in January in the message titled “Recognizing our Prophetic Timeline” but felt it was important to revisit it today. We cannot slack on our duties!

Sunday March 3, 2024, I had a vision of America. It was filled with corruption. The corruption was displayed literally by a dark substance that reminded me of heavy soot.

It was layered across the land so deep; it appeared as though we had no mountains, no lakes, no valleys. The mountains, the valleys, even the Grand Canyon which has an average depth of one mile, was all level because the corruption simply filled every nook and cranny of the land.

Then the Lord appeared on the west coast. He was weeping—His intercession. He stood about 150 feet tall. He began moving eastward from the northern corner toward the south and then back. In a serpentine motion, He headed east weeping and sweeping, weeping and sweeping. In this process, He was also exposing the corruption for all to see. Behind Him, the land was clean, defined, sparkling. He was cleansing the land. By the time He arrived at the Grand Canyon, I could see soot beginning to line up along the west coast again.

Once He arrived on the east coast and turned around, I could see that the land was already almost filled back up with the corruption. Within a short time, it seemed almost as bad as it was when He began.

He walked back to the west coast, and started the same procedure, interceding and sweeping, cleansing the land but this time, the corruption was being uprooted.

By the time He arrived at the Grand Canyon—and I believe the Grand Canyon was singled out for three reasons:

By the time Jesus arrived there, He turned and looked back and saw a line of people across the western coastline following Him. Behind them was another line of people, then another, and another! It looked as though they were emerging from the sea, and they just kept coming! Having seen the corruption He exposed, these individuals were working to retain and maintain the cleansing He was doing.

I believe the weeping our Lord was doing is in partnership with the work of the intercessors from 1999 to 2020. This is the period of our Gathering of the Eagles. The gap from 2020 until now, the nation has filled back up with the soot of the last century, and while it may seem discouraging, because He exposed the roots of the corruption, the people are ready to reclaim the land!

He is faithful because we’ve prayed. And friends, our Lord began another trek across our land because He has not turned His back on our nation!

From 2020 until now, our Lord has been working to cleanse the land in partnership with the intercessors, but those coming up out of the sea are those rods of righteousness—the new breed of warriors—I’ve seen them in visions—and we’ve prayed about them for many years. These are the ones God called upon to retain and maintain the work that’s been done in the spirit realm.

President Trump just celebrated his first 100 days in office. I want to highlight just a handful of the executive orders he’s signed to protect our nation, influence the culture with righteous standards, and turn this nation back to God.

President Trump:

So, my friends, my fellow Church body, I’ve given you a lot of information. What are we going to do with it? Are we going to sit back and let President Trump’s Executive Orders fade into the pages of history as great but short-term actions. OR are we going to rise up, as the New Breed of Believers that we are called to be, and take a stand against governors and state legislators like the ones in Washington, California, Minnesota and so on? Are we going to actively pray for their replacements and the legislators that vote for such atrocities? Are we going to pursue the path of righteousness and justice that our very own President is laying out for us? The Lord has been leading us on a path, weeping and sweeping the junk out of our nation for some time. Now He’s looking for action, He’s calling the New Breed of Legislators, journalists, educators, and so on, those who are willing to come alongside Him to retain and maintain the work that He has done!

It's time for the New Breed of Believers to take our stand!

Blessings & love,

Ricci Johnson-Wilson