Dear Friends,
I’d like to bring CedarWood to your attention today. This is such a precious arm of our ministry with over 500 fed each week through the CedarWood Pantry, CedarWood Outreach to the Homeless, and our BackPack Kids programs, this provides us with the opportunity to reach into the lives of those around us on a practical level.
This weekend, during our CedarWood Outreach to the Homeless, two men, with tears streaming down their faces, dropped to their knees with their hands raised high up in the air in the middle of a parking lot while our team prayed for them. They felt the power of God come down!
Our Lord often fed the poor encouraging His disciples to do the same. Why? What good does it do a man for us to feed his spirit while his flesh perishes? The love and intimate nature of our Lord serves those in need.
James, the brother of our Lord, in the second chapter of his epistle, encouraged the people to demonstrate their faith by meeting the needs of the poor. Paul often encouraged the congregants of the churches he established to meet the needs of the poor, as did Peter. Why? Because, this is what Jesus did while He was on the earth. While Christ walked the earth, He connected with His creation, He fellowshipped, He conversed, He served, and He poured out the Love of the Father to His creation. This included serving those in need, healing the sick, and feeding the hungry.
Not too long ago I was watching an older film about the life of Jesus. It’s a full-length film where we witness as Jesus trains and interacts playfully with His disciples. We witness Him feed the 5000, heal the lepers, pick up the little children, and reach into the lives of those hurting to bring healing. I’ve seen this movie many times however, this time while I observed Jesus’ interaction with the people, the Lord let me experience His heart while He walked this earth.
It’s difficult to describe what I experienced, but I liken it to a father who awaits the birth of his first child. For nine months, he feels for any movement of his son from outside the mother’s stomach. He knows his baby recognizes him because he moves around more when hearing daddy’s voice, but his engagement with his son is limited due to the circumstances. He anxiously awaits the arrival so he can finally embrace him and the moment that child is born (and that day forward), the father gently picks his son up and pours all the love he has into his son.
This is what the Lord revealed to me while I watched the film: when Jesus came and walked the earth as a man He was still God. God, our Father, who created us. Luke 3:38 tells us that Adam was the son of God and Genesis teaches us that God came down into the garden each afternoon to walk with Adam and Eve. When Adam fell, that intimacy of walking in the garden ceased. Finally, after thousands of years, He could engage on a personal level with His creation once again. God, as Jesus, He could peer into our eyes to assure us of His presence, embrace us when we hurt, cover us with a warm blanket, heal us, and even provide us with food with His very own hands. The Father was finally able to—through His Son— physically extend His love for His creation, to His creation face to face. This is the most intimate and personable God had been able to connect with His children since the fall of Adam and Eve. Just like that dad who waited nine long months to hold his child, God was finally able to “hold” His children.
As children of the Most High God, when we serve the needs of the poor, we are His outstretched hands to those who are hurting, cold, hungry and often times, just desperate to know they are not only NOT alone, but they are worthy of love. People drop to their knees and come to Jesus not because we have some catchy salvation message, but because we demonstrate the Love of God when no one saw them worthy enough to grant them the time of day.
Thank you to those of you who support the work we do. You make our CedarWood outreaches possible!
Much love,
Ricci Wilson
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Teachings: Just a reminder, all of our weekly teachings are uploaded to the “Prophetic & Intercessor’s Training Ground” Page of our website. These are timely messages given to prepare us for the days ahead. If you missed a Thursday night teaching or interested in listening to our weekly in-depth Bible study, click here.
Finances: Our finances always get hit 2-3 weeks prior to a GOE. Please pray with us for a breakthrough! WFJM stands in the gap for nations through the work of the Gatherings/Joel’s Army, we support missions world-wide, serve those in need through CedarWood, distribute books/CDs without charge, and so on. For more information on any of these outreaches, click here. We couldn’t accomplish this with you!
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"Never Give Up"
Prophetic Insight
Part B
By Nita Johnson
Seattle Service
We are repenting of the sins of this nation. When a contemporary prophet says the cup is full, he’s mistaken. It may be very close to the rim, but it’s not full. If it were, there would be no way to dissuade the hand of God from His wrath. But it is not full, and it is not full because people are praying. People are pleading for forgiveness on behalf of this nation, repenting of our sins, just as the Scripture says: 2 Chronicles 7:14
2 Chron 7:14 KJV If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
How does that fit with today? Satan is trying to destroy the power of prayer. He’s trying to steal your faith. He’s trying to paint a different picture of the heart of God than what His Word says. If we will humble ourselves and pray. If we will humble ourselves and pray. Repent - which means to turn from our wicked ways. He will hear and He will heal the land.
In the book of Joel, verse 12 of Chapter 2.
Joel 2:12 Amp Therefore, also now, says the Lord, turn and keep on coming to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning….
Does this sound like a pleading God to you? Does it? Does it sound like a God that has something more in mind than wrath?
Joel 2:12f-13b Amp [until every hindrance is removed and the broken fellowship is restored]. Rend your hearts and not your garments and return to the Lord, your God….
Listen to this. This is the heart of God. Return. Return. Return. America, return. Church, return. This is His heart. He is not standing with the bowl of wrath in His hand, saying, “I’m fed up with you! I’m not going to wait any longer!” He is saying, “Turn, turn, turn!” How? With weeping, with fasting, with prayer, with repentance. Rend your heart. He’s not talking about sitting in your armchair like someone who is looking at the world through someone else’s travel experience. He is saying, “Get your heart involved! Weep! Cry! Bend! Rend! Let your guts hurt under the anointing!” Friends, cry like you’ve never cried before because your nation is falling away, and you’ve got a God that wants to restore! It is Satan that wants to drive America into the ground through sin. It is not God wanting to reject America. Please don’t believe anything else. Do you believe me? Remember, I’m the one that got up out of the sick bed because I love your faith. And I don’t like people trying to breaking it. Amen?
Joel 2:13 Amp Rend your hearts and not your garments and return to the Lord, your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in loving-kindness; and He revokes His sentence of evil [when His conditions are met].
Now I want to ask you a question. Do you believe the Bible? Do you believe that when He says this, He means it? How much time are you spending in prayer? Are you lifting this passage up to Him day and night? Do you sacrifice sleep to pray? Do you sacrifice eating to pray? Prayer is not something I’m telling you to do. The Holy Spirit is pleading with us. Someone else might not be praying, so we may have to make up for their lack, we must pray until we have prayed it through. God will answer!
Sin begins to pile up when a nation is born. It gets greater and greater until the cup that has been created to hold all that sin becomes full. If repentance does not turn the tide, the cup continues to fill. However, when God is saying repent, and He finds a people who will take action and the cup begins to empty according to the intercession. It’s not like one big outpouring to empty the sin out of the cup. Little by little, through repentant intercession, we are getting further away from the rim. Now of course, America keeps sinning, but God keeps forgiving. Boy, am I glad. It’s taken us 400 years to get where we are and I am so glad it is not going to take us 400 years to undo it. Our job is to repent. God’s job is to change the heart of the people. We cannot do that, but He can. But what happens when sin drenched circumstances happen, as we see every day, you become weakened in your faith. I want to tell you something and I’ve got to say this to you, please listen; you have got to put your hand up in the realm of the Spirit and say, “We will not let sin dominate this nation! We will not let sin dominate this nation! We don’t curse the sinner. We bless him with a love for righteousness, but we will not let sin dominate this nation!” You’ve got to take that stand.
Many remember the childhood story about the little boy who put his finger in the dyke to save the city. What would have happened if he had taken his finger out of the dyke? The city would have been lost. That is how we have to see ourselves. We cannot put our hand down. We have got to stand for God’s glory. We have got to stand for this nation to be purified and healed of unrighteousness. We must. We cannot ever put our hand down. The minute we put the hand of faith down, America is lost. Yes indeed, I tell you, Jesus said it Himself, you, dear intercessors, are standing in the gap, preventing the wrath of God. A wrath He does not want to send. How important is that? Those who are here, and those who are online and those who will hear through this message on our website: how important is that? It is so important, every Christian and every nation all over the earth prays for us, “Stand strong. God help them stand strong.” We need America to be strong, but strong in God.
To be continued next week…
In Him,
Nita Johnson
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Kansas, Gathering of the Eagles, 2019!
GOE Dates: June 10-15
Dates: June 10-14, 2019
Schedule: Monday - Friday 9:30-2 & 6-10:30 p.m.
Location:
Holiday Inn KCI Airport & Expo Center
11728 NW Ambassador Drive
Kansas City MO 64153
816-801-8400
Room Rates:
King bed or 2 Queen beds - $109.00
*Room must be booked by 5/10/2019 with group code: WJG to receive this rate.
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Click here for This Week's Schedule:
We invite everyone to stand with us as we fight for the healing of our Nation. Click below for PDF with: Flash Phone Instructions
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English-Speaking Corporate Prayer Call
712-770-4160
Access Code: 182152#
Chinese Translation Line
NEW NUMBER!! 605-313-5164
Access Code: 800754
Canadian Corporate Call
NEW NUMBER!
605-313-5140
Access Code: 304406#
Korean Speaking Prayer Call
712-775-7035
Access Code: 881779#
Spanish-Speaking Prayer Call
563-999-1048
Access Code: 609189#
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This Week's Schedule!
Sunday March 31
Canadian Prayer Call
3:20pm PST
Reminder: NEW NUMBER!
641-715-0856
Access Code: 304406#
Interactive Prayer Call
5-7PM PST
Chinese Speaking Interactive Prayer Call
5-7 PM PST
Korean Speaking
5-7 PM PST
All are welcome to attend any of the above calls.
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Thank you for your continued support of this outreach. Lives are changed each week through our CW Pantry and support team. Check out our FaceBook page for details. Monday April 15 1-2:30 PM
Location: Bethel Chapel
23010 66th Ave W
Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043
Here are some pressing needs our CedarWood department has:
- Child Sponsorship - $34.99 per month provides essential nutrition to a child in need
- Shoes
- Blankets - All sizes
- Sleeping bags for the homeless
- Volunteers
- Diapers (Size 3 & up) & baby wipes
- Baby Food & Formula
- $5-$20 Gift cards for Gas for our volunteers who transport the food to and from the Pantry
Most donations can be dropped off during the Pantry or mailed into our office. Tax deductible receipts provided.
Coats & Clothes Closet:
Open Mondays and by appointment. We need volunteers to help organize and prepare clothing for visitors
The need is great and our numbers are increasing every week. Please pray that our volunteer base will increase as well!
If you would like to help, contact Adam Shephard at Cedarwoodinternationalwfjm @gmail.com
We extend a special thanks to our CW Team and volunteers for their faithfulness every week.
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