Border of Prayer

I find myself having to sift through what I would like to write about lately. God has been doing so much that sometimes it's overwhelming in a wonderful way. He has brought me to fertile ground and yet the battle continues (because we are in this world and it's normal).
I'm finding out that I thought I had a grasp on the love of God as much as I have been experiencing it and learning to receive it, but really I don't know it all. Not even close. The depths of His love are unfathomable and it seems that everything in life for me comes back to the love of God and what I believe to be true about God (the lens through which I see Him).
Weekly, we have been gathering at church and praying, reading the Word and worshipping. last week, the Lord gave me a picture of a border that began in the prayer room and started to expand around the church, then around the city and then the region and beyond. It was a border of prayer. When we think of a border, sometimes we can get a picture of being restrained to a certain area and a sense of restriction, not freedom. But I believe that the border is one of protection against the enemy, one of marking "THIS CITY BELONGS TO THE LORD." It is marked by our Commander in Chief, JESUS CHRIST. No longer will this place be a place where the enemy can lay stake or camp. Some areas the enemy has been for a long time. He has been comfortable and has even built a castle of strongholds. NO MORE!!! We are claiming Kalamazoo and the region for Christ. We say it belongs to Him and that is all there is to it. None other than Christ Jesus, the KING OF KINGS taking rulership over our city.
I am reminded of 2 visions and another picture that the Lord had given me for this area. The first one is a picture of a straight line of fire going from Florida up here to Michigan. I believe that it's not just a revival that's going on in Florida. I believe that in time, this will become the norm. People are getting more and more desperate for spiritual things (even if it isn't the right spirit). A flame of fire that won't go out. A burning, blazing fire---- the wrath of God is coming to take stake on the enemy and to rescue the prisoners, to set the captives free! (Isaiah 61) Enough is enough! The jealous King is coming to rescue sinners from damnation, to encounter His beloved bride, THE Church.
The two visions that I received was a few months back. I was at work at the copier machine and I felt like I was back in Kansas City at the International House of Prayer and I was surrounded by young adults praying, worshipping and fasting. I felt as though I was actually there again. (I had gone to this exact conference in Kansas City a couple of years ago). The next vision was of the same picture but I was at the K-wings Stadium in Kalamazoo!!! It was like God was reminding me of what had happened and what was going to take place!!!
By praying the Word and communicating with God corporately, we are putting feet to what God is doing. None of us are called to live as islands. We are called to go into our closet and close the door and seek our Father in secret, but also to gather with other believers and pray in His Kingdom! It's exciting because what God is doing isn't just for a select few, but it is for everyone who will believe and receive and move into it!
There is a harvest out there. I am so excited for the teens that are coming and gathering and crying out to God every week at church. I felt a strong sense of corporate prayer after Desperation and I felt the Holy Spirit say to get on board with what He is doing and that it would just come! And it has! Not just the prayer, but the hunger, too.
I am also excited about what God is going to do in the college ministry. There is untapped harvest in so many areas in this region. People have so much, yet they are so destitute without Christ. They think they are rich, but really they are in poverty spiritually. Come wake us up, God, for the lost!


"So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him. “ The Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” says the LORD. -Isaiah 59:19-20