Shared…
The following was shared from Billye Brim Ministries…
Minneapolis-St Paul Area & “The Soul of This Nation”
On our Wednesday 8 AM Prayer Call, someone from Minneapolis urgently asked us to pray about the tragedy that occurred Monday, May 25. A video recorded the senseless choking to death of George Floyd by one policeman while others stood by doing nothing to stop it.
I immediately thought of a word from the Lord that I’d received about God’s plan for the area. I said to the prayer call participants, “I’ll see if I can locate it, and I’ll post it later.” But without even getting up from my prayer chair, I looked into a woven basket at my feet. It contains Bibles and things I’m studying along with a couple of small note books to write prayer notes or things I receive from the Lord. There it was!
The word came a year before while I was watching the Sunday, April 28, 2019 service at Living Word Christian Center in Minneapolis with Pastor Mac Hammond preaching. He had been under media scrutiny for statements he’d made about the Lord’s working a miracle for a young boy who was thrown from the third story of The Mall of America. As I watched, the following word came to me. I telephoned Lynne Hammond sometime later about it, but otherwise, I had not shared it until our prayer call this past Wednesday. Here is how I journaled it:
Sunday, April 28, 2019
as Pastor Mac shared.
Minneapolis is a major battlefield—an arena of great proportion for the soul of this nation.
That’s why I have stationed my strongest soldiers there—most pointedly in the realm of prayer. This has been my mode of operation through many years.
The end of this age will reveal My victory through the saints in the Light.
For darkness—which seemingly operates unchecked—shall not and is not overcoming the Light.
All the nation shall see and benefit from what I am doing in Minneapolis.
Minneapolis – St Paul
Prayer Warriors Through the Years
I could see it! When the word came, I immediately thought of several things, present and past, the Lord had caused me to know about His stationing prayer warriors in the Minneapolis – St Paul area.
Pastors Mac and Lynne Hammond
Right now, the Pastors Hammond, and particularly, Lynne, are mightily used by the Lord, both to pray—and to shepherd and teach powerful Spirit-led pray-ers. I can name several of those prayer warriors, but I don’t want to leave anyone out.
Phillip Halverson
And then, someone I consider to be the most powerful man of prayer I’ve ever known, Brother Phillip Halverson, lived in St Paul. (This is just my opinion for I am not one divinely commissioned to rate pray-ers.)
Lynne Hammond and I learned from this man who prayed on a level and in a realm of the Spirit few have ever touched. In a recent blog I wrote about the space scientist Clyde McGee. Brother Halverson was used by the Lord to pray over “the birds” before he met Clyde. When the two met they discovered Phil had been praying over the groundbreaking technology God was revealing to Clyde and two other men. When I prayed with Brother Halverson it was difficult to pray. This was because I was listening. As he moved in the Spirit, words in English would come out. Often he prayed about something and you would see it in the news some weeks later.
Included here is a video so you can see how this man prayed. We made this 5-minute video in an extraordinary gathering of praying saints in Los Angeles in 1983. We called it “Secrets of Intercession.” The meeting came about because of a word of the Lord to me through Kenneth E. Hagin. He’d walked into my office and told me that the seasoned pray-ers I fellowshipped with were going to start going home to Heaven. He said, “If you don’t get out of them what they have, we are going to lose it for the next generations.” Hence the LA meeting.
Dr. George Washington Carver Prophecy
This great African-American genius of science who literally saved the agriculture of the South was born to a mother who had been a slave. His “secrets” were learned from One he called, “Mr. Creator.” Rising at four o’clock every morning he communed with the Lord. And later in the day taking no book but the Bible into his laboratory he worked out what Mr. Creator had given him.
In his wonderful book, The Man Who Talks With the Flowers, The Life Story of Dr. George Washington Carver, Glenn Clark records:
“My third meeting with Dr. George Washington Carver was the fitting climax of them all. He had been invited to speak as the high point in a Crusade for Christ being put on in Minneapolis.” [The author describes the supernatural meeting in detail. In his introduction of Dr. Carver at the meeting, Glenn Clark ended with, “…no one ever sees him without a flower in his buttonhole and the love of God in his heart.”]…
“The next day I took him to the chapel in Macalester College. His address there was just as wonderful and carried us even further than the address before the larger group the night before. When he closed, they applauded till I began to wonder whether the next period classes would ever have a chance to meet. I finally raised my hand to still the enthusiastic boys and girls and said, ‘Dr. Carver has an encore. Great as he is as a speaker, he is still greater as a man of prayer…so I am going to ask Dr. Carver to put his blessing upon us in a closing prayer.
“As we rode to the station, Dr. Carver said, ‘Last night as I rode to the auditorium I was holding a little white flower in my hand all the way, and in the silence while we rode, I was talking to it and it was talking to me. It told me some wonderful things. And the flowers have never failed to tell me the truth. It told me that there is going to be a great spiritual awakening in the world, and it is going to come from people up here, from people connected with you and me, from plain, simple people who know—not merely believe—but actually know that God answers prayer. It is going to be a great revival of Christianity, not a revival of religion…a revival of true Christianity. It is going to rise from the laymen, from men who are going about their work and putting God into what they do, from men who believe in prayer, and who want to make God real to mankind.’
Personally transmitted stories about Billy Graham, Dr. Lileon B. Yeomans, Dr. Frank and Irene Lindquist and others are a part of my God-given memory bank of His workings in Minneapolis – St Paul unto this day.
Prayed…
Father, we thank You for the precious blood of Jesus today
We magnify the power that is in that blood, Lord
Declaring a blood covering over Minneapolis and St Paul
Calling for safety and protection that is in the blood of Jesus
No weapon formed against us shall or will prosper in the name of Jesus
We pray that even in the midst of this trial that there will be many that come to You
Lifting up the hearts, Lord
Praying for the light to dispel the darkness
We push back with the blood, “no you are not welcome here”
Praying that families that were broken would be restored and made whole
Yes, we pray for the youth, that they would begin to turn their hearts towards You, Lord
Declaring that revival would begin to break out in Jesus’ name
We pray for protection over Minneapolis
Calling for no destruction, no attempts of the enemy would take place
Praying for the peace that surpasses all understanding, Lord
We lift up and pray over all the government leaders in Minneapolis
Holy Spirit, You are leading and guiding those in authority
Father, we pray for the truth to come out
We take authority over any kind of racism
Praying over all of the churches in Minneapolis and St Paul
Holding up pastors, Father
Grant unto them wisdom of every kind
We are one body under You, Lord
Taking authority over division, and we declare that Jesus is Lord over our cities
Praying over the Police force in Minneapolis
Open their eyes and their hearts, Father
Thank You for the peace that surpasses all understanding
Those things that You have said will come to pass in these last days
We draw a line against the enemy
Praying for the truth to be revealed, Lord
Calling for divine, supernatural integrity in the name of Jesus
Casting down every kind of lie or inaccuracy
Thank You for Your light and that it dispels all darkness
Safety and peace all across this nation
No, we do not expect fires, riots but we expect revivals to take place
Holy Spirit, move in this place, we need and want more of You, Lord
Staying steady all the way through to the very end
We watch with our eyes of faith today, Father
Expecting better days and better ways
Thank You for the ministry of Your Spirit to be in the courtroom
Hearts are being changed, lives are being changed in Jesus’ name
Shifts are taking place today!
Minnesota is moving more and more in God’s perfect ways
We pray over every church and ministry in Minneapolis, that there would be unity, Lord
Calling for restoration in this nation, Father
Humbling ourselves before You and we thank You for changes here in this city
Thank You for the anointing of Your precious Holy Spirit
Jesus, grant unto us a greater revelation of Your Word
Pleading the blood over this city, and every suburb
Calling for protection over this city in the name of Jesus
