United States Strategic Prayer Network

Dr. C. Peter Wagner

Senior Apostle

Chuck Pierce

National Apostle

P.O. Box 1601
Denton, TX 76201
Phone: (940) 382-1166
usgapn@globalharvest.org

Diane Buker

National Apostolic Council

P.O. Box 423
O'Brien, FL 32071
diane@battleaxe.org

This is a season of building for our future. Many of you have read my emails concerning this. Even though the Church is a living organism, when Peter had the revelation of who Christ was the Lord said УUpon this revelation I will build My Church.Ф The Hebrew word for build means to add sons and daughters to. Jesus added, УThe gates of hell will not withstand it (the Church) and I will give you the keys to the Kingdom ЕФ If the Church is built properly we have the authority to unlock His Kingdom purposes in the earth.

I believe intercessors pave the way into the heavenlies to release the necessary revelation for the Church to be built and the Kingdom to be unlocked. At the beginning of this past year, the Lord spoke very clearly to me the following: "The Prayer Movement needs to be the wine for the wineskin that is forming." He revealed to me that as the Apostolic Government of the Church matured, the Prayer Movement had to stay fluid and remain new as a drink offering to their region. He showed me new people in every state that were to be involved. He showed me how many of you had been very faithful in the past season, but now, you would need to expand your connections.

I have also shared on the importance of alignment and the need for key apostolic/prophetic authorities in territories to be connected with the prayer movement. As I wrote in The Future War of the Church in October 2000, "We must know who we are serving with and how to communicate in days ahead very quickly and efficiently." Those days are now here! The Prayer Movement is shifting rapidly. Over the last 15 years we have seen the Lord use His intercessors to pave the way for the maturing Apostolic Movement. Now, the Prayer Movement will be used to unlock the Apostolic Movement in a new way. This will cause the Kingdom of God to advance, demonic powers and territorial structures of the enemy to be bound, worship gatherings to change the atmosphere of entire states, and Harvest storehouses to be developed.

After Peter gave a charge to the Prayer Movement and a teaching on wine and wineskins at our USSPN Leadership Luncheon, he began to discuss how spiritual warfare through the last decade moved the Spiritual Warfare Network into a new dimension of growth and maturity. He shared how the wineskin of the prayer movement had shifted based upon the shifting wineskin of ministries involved. We then discussed how Dutch SheetsТ and my call to apostolically mobilize a prophetic army of warriors in each state synergized this movement to its next level thanks to you and others gathering throughout our nation. This produced an apostolic governmental anointing in the prayer movement.

While we were discussing this Cindy Jacobs began to prophesy:
It is time to shift the prayer movement. We must become apostolic in our expression. We must find the intercessors and the prophets and align them with the apostles in each state. If each leader of the present movement will shift, their state will shift. If this shift does not occur, the Lord said, УMy Kingdom will not be established from state to state and a nation will suffer greatly.Ф She then admonished us to receive a new anointing to allow the anointing we have walked in to come into a new powerful expression, and to move from a network of intercessors to an Apostolic Network that could change the course of this nation.

A New Name for Future Identity and Function
It is time for us to reassemble our Prayer Army from state to state for the future of a nation to be secured. Prayer warriors are aligning in a new way. In searching for a means to reflect this shift, we must recognize that a name describes both identity and function. The name associated with this sphere of the prayer movement will be: U.S. Global Apostolic Prayer Network: Mobilizing and Strengthening the Harvest Net. This name reflects both function and identity.

We must understand the times that we are living in, and be like the Issachar Tribe - Уknowing what to do in the midst of change.Ф We are actually living in the Hebraic Year 5766: a year of DIVINE CONNECTIONS and building for the future. This is the 5^th year of a seven year war season.

Brian and I will continue to communicate to the whole USGAPN on the developments that constantly bring change to the atmosphere of our nation. My main call is to serve you and see the enemy defeated and his works destroyed (I John 3:8). We are, of course, linked with Peter and Doris Wagner, who are key leaders in the Body of Christ for communicating shifting paradigms and developing strategies to unlock nations. Look forward to Peter communicating our most recent mission focus, Opening the 9/11 Window: Light, Life, and Love to the Muslim Peoples.

On April 15, 2006, the email communications of the USSPN will no longer be. All communication will then initiate from USGAPN@globalharvest.org and will be identified as the U.S. Global Apostolic Prayer Network: Mobilizing and Strengthening the Harvest Net.

Expect and Prepare for Visitation
This will be a year of great shaking and quaking! In October 2005, the Lord spoke to us as we celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles and said: "Plant your feet! Ready yourself for change! You are entering a year of shaking and quaking! This year will be known as the Year of Holy Spirit! This will be the year the RIVERS will rise! Watch where heavens open and floods (physical) reach the earth, and document those places! Those are places targeted for a Holy Spirit invasion. Rising flood waters will cause you to move to higher ground. As the River of Holy Spirit rises you will find yourself moving to the high places. I will position My people on the high places this year. As you worship, I will cause ruling thrones of iniquity to topple. Like Dagon, their head will fall before My Presence! Get ready! I shake loose wicked structures. Watch in the night and watch Me manifest in the light!"

Now is a time to EXPECT the next move of the Holy Spirit to begin!
All "sevens" are dear to the Lord. We are living in the Hebraic year 5767 and the Roman Calendar Year 2007. The number "7" is linked with completion and fulfillment. Seven is also a number related to the Holy Spirit. The Seven-Fold Spirit and the candle in the Book of Revelation are important for us to understand this year; ".Directly in front of His Throne were SEVEN-lighted lamps representing the S even-Fold Spirit of God" (Rev.4:2-5). Isaiah 11:2, says, "The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him, the Spirit of wisdom, understanding, counsel, power, knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord!" Ask the Lord for Holy Spirit to overpower you during this season. Expect Him to not only move in the cities and nations of the world, but also to visit you personally.

What Should We Do?
How do we receive revelation from God for our next step in order to move to our next glory? How do we listen for the voice of God? Many times these answers come when we receive a visitation from the Holy Spirit. What I mean by a visitation from God is simply hearing from Him. God does not visit all people in the same way. But visitation is a valid, legitimate part of Christian life. For us to fully possess our inheritance, we need to understand more about visitation and be open to receiving this gift from God in our own lives. In Possessing Your Inheritance, Rebecca Wagner Sytsema and I explain the eight spiritual disciplines. They are: Meditation, Prayer, Worship, Warfare, Work, Rest, Fasting, and Giving. We should walk before the Lord in a disciplined way. Esther prepared herself and was ready when the Lord called upon her to intercede for His people. I believe the watch of the Lord is key to keeping us prepared for visitation. Being at the right place at the right time and allowing the Spirit of God to prompt you will propel you into visitation.

Expect to Be Visited! Many Do Not Recognize His Comings!
Visitation occurs when the Lord decides to "audit" our lives. Visitation is also linked with numbering the army or taking a census. Therefore, when God comes He addresses things in our lives that are not lined up with His ultimate plan for us. He also reveals Himself to us for our future. He prepares us for a situation ahead. Be careful that you do not miss visitation. I went through the Word of God a couple of months ago and found so many instances where individuals did not expect God to visit them. Sarah did not expect visitation (Gen. 21). Moses did not expect visitation (Ex. 3). Eli did not expect visitation (1 Sam. 3). The pray-ers did not expect visitation (Acts 12). Israel and Jerusalem did not expect vitiation (Luke 19). Many never recognize His visitation. He is very near to us this season. Be aware of His presence.

Five Observations on Visitation
Over time certain truths about visitation have been impressed upon me. Here are five:

1. There is a time of visitation. In the New Testament there are two Greek words for time. One is chronos and the other is kairos. The word chronos refers to chronological time-days, weeks, months, years. Kairos refers to an appointed time or an opportune time. For instance when a woman is pregnant, she spends nine months of chronos time in pregnancy waiting for her child. But when she goes into labor the kairos time for the birth of her child has come. The Lord has appointed or kairos times He has set aside for visitation. When speaking prophetically to the city of Jerusalem, Jesus said, "For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation" (Luke 19:43-44).

In his book, Welcoming a Visitation of the Holy Spirit, Wesley Campbell says, "God visited Jerusalem many times. His voice came through His prophets. His glory came in kairos events such as the building of the temples. Finally, He came through His Son, Jesus Christ, who boldly stated: 'Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father' (John 14:9). However, after only three years of ministry, Jesus was forced to declare that enemies would raze the holy city of Jerusalem to the ground as judgment for not recognizing Him, even when He came in the flesh (see Luke 19:41-44). The prophesied judgment happened in A.D. 70 when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Roman invader, Titus."

Jerusalem missed her time of visitation and, consequently, could not even recognize the Lord when He stood in their midst. Likewise, if we do not perceive our times of visitation, how would we recognize the Lord if He were to stand in our midst? We must understand that the Lord desires to bring visitation to us and we must stand ready for our kairos time.

2. During times of visitation miraculous blessings come. By far the greatest visitation of God in history was the 33 years Jesus walked on earth. As Jesus moved among the people, tremendous blessings on an unprecedented scale fell on those with whom He came in contact. The blind received sight, the deaf heard, the lame walked, the dead were raised, sin was forgiven, bondages were broken, demoniacs were freed, and death, hell and the grave were soundly defeated.

As the Lord comes in contact with us today, why should we expect less? Miraculous blessings are a part of kairos times of visitation. They are something we should cry out to God for. Consider the story of blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46-52) who, as Jesus was passing by, cried out for Him. Those around tried to quiet him down, but Bartimaeus shouted louder. Jesus, hearing him cry out, called to Bartimaeus and asked him what he wanted Jesus to do for him. When Bartimaeus asked to receive his sight, Jesus said, "Go your way; your faith has made you well." (v. 52). Bartimaeus recognized the kairos time of Jesus' visitation. He also knew that if he did not cry out then, Jesus might not pass by again and the chance to be healed would be lost. Like blind Bartimaeus, we too must be ready for our visitation and willing to cry out to God for whatever miraculous blessing we are needing in our own life.

3. Faithfulness and consistency produce surprise visitation. In Luke 1:15-13 we read the story of the priest Zachariah who was righteous and blameless in the sight of the Lord. He was a good man who followed God's commandments and fulfilled the duties of his priesthood faithfully. But he and his wife Elizabeth had no children. Apparently he had petitioned the Lord concerning their barrenness. One day, while performing his normal priestly duties, an angel of the Lord visited him, told him that his petition had been heard and that Elizabeth would bear a son whom they were to name John. By no biblical indications were Zachariah or Elizabeth extraordinary people. But they were a man and woman of God who were found righteous in His sight. They were also faithful and consistent in the portion God had given them. It was in the consistent performance of Zachariah's duties that his kairos time of visitation came, and his prayer for a child was answered.

No one can know when a time of visitation is coming. But our faithfulness in serving in the portion God has given us and crying out to God for those barren places in our lives can be a catalyst to visitation-when we least expect to hear from Him.

4. Visitation secures our inheritance. Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit (Job 10:12, KJV). In Hebrew the word preserved in this passage is shamar meaning to guard, keep safe, protect, watch over or care for. It is the same word used in Genesis 2:15 when Adam was called to tend and keep (shamar) the garden. It is also used when God commanded the people of God to guard over the covenant (see Gen. 17:9, Exod. 31:14, Deut. 28:9).

Here in Job we see that God has granted life and favor, and that His visitation has preserved (shamared) Job's spirit. Every time the will of God comes from heaven to earth and God's glory is present our destiny, our inheritance, our very spirit is guarded, protected, watched over-shamared by the Spirit of God through that visitation. How is that so? When visitation comes, God always releases some type of strategic information that thrusts us forward in His purposes. As we respond to His visitation and to the strategic information we receive, we possess a greater portion of our inheritance. Therefore, as God manifests Himself through visitation, He is shamaring His purposes for our lives, and securing our inheritance.

5. Visitation and God's Glory Occur Together! When the true manifest presence of God visits us as humans, it cannot be done without His glory radiating from that presence. At times God does reveal His glory to man visibly, much as he did for me that night in Houston. Such a display of the presence of God is often seen as fire or dazzling light, perhaps as a cloud or mist, or sometimes as an act of His mighty power. But even if we do not visibly see manifestations of His glory, the visitation we experience leaves us with an impression of His glory burned into our hearts. It is, after all, the inward and hidden work in our hearts that produces the Christ-like attributes that move us from glory to glory.

This is a time to "trim your wicks", watch, and wait patiently for Holy Spirit to visit you. Do not be like the "unwise virgins" and lose your expectation of what will happen in days ahead! I am praying for the transforming power and glory of Holy Spirit to overcome you. Expect His glory to invade your home, workplace, city, state and nation! Our lamp stand is being looked at. I believe the Lord is looking at the Church in every region of our nation to see if its lamp is burning. I believe the Lord is looking at nations and determining whether their lamp is burning. Be sure there is oil in your lamp and be watching for the Lord to come. When He comes, do not hesitate but move quickly.