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CLOUD of CONFUSION

In the vision, I saw Satan and myself in hand-to-hand combat.
We were face to face circling one another like boxers in a boxing
ring. We were engulfed in a cloud of dark smoke and fog.
We were not touching one another, yet there was a battle taking
place. The smoke was so thick I could hardly keep a visual on him,
so most of my concentration and focus was set on keeping him in my
sights.  As this was happening, I felt like the Lord showed me
that this is one of the enemy's most effective strategies waged
against the intercessor, the warrior, the church.
If he can keep you in a cloud of confusion, if he can keep your
focus on trying to find him, if he can keep you 
in hand-to-hand combat, then he can keep control of you.

COME UP HIGHER, THE LORD SAID
INTERCESSION, WARFARE as you have known it, is CHANGING

Then I heard the Lord say, Come up higher. I found myself leaving
the confusion of battle and entering into the presence of the Lord.
As this happened I looked down and I could see Satan searching
aimlessly in the smoke and fog for his opponent.  The Lord then said
to me,  "Intercession and warfare, as you have known it, is changing.
There is a warfare that I am calling My intercessors, warriors and
worshipers to.  It is the Warfare of Intimacy.  This Warfare of
Intimacy takes place at a much higher level than the warfare that 
has been waged in the second heaven."

HAND-TO-HAND was NECESSARY but the GROUNDWORK is LAID

The hand-to-hand combat has been necessary to battle through the dark
places in order to enter the next realm with the Lord.  Now, however,
because of the groundwork that has been laid, the Lord is extending
an invitation for His bride to come up into this place of the Warfare
of Intimacy.  I saw Jesus, the intercessor, according to Scripture, 
sitting at the throne of God offering intercession on our behalf. 
 (Romans 8:34)

It was out of relationship and love that His intercession was 
released, and it was with such tenderness, peace and gentleness.  
Totally different than any intercession or warfare I had ever 
been involved with or even seen before.

BEYOND THE CLAMOR

As we move beyond the clamor and clatter of the hand-to-hand battles
As we move out of the smoke and dark clouds
as we move into His Presence and into His courts of intimacy, 
then He says that confusion will be sent to the enemy's camp 
because the battle will be His!

UNITY 



Then I began to see intercessors and worshippers together around
the throne of God. Intercessors were interceding and worshipers
were worshiping with tremendous unity. In so much unity in fact
that intercessors became worshipers and worshipers became
intercessors. All that I beheld in this place of worship was
characterized by an incredible intimacy with the Father.

A BRAIDING TAKING PLACE

The Lord then said that He is braiding together the intercessor,
the worshiper and the prophetic. That He is weaving them into one
single fabric. They will be different yet the same. The worshiper
will still have the characteristics of a worshiper, and the
intercessor will still have the characteristics of an intercessor,
yet as they come together under a greater prophetic anointing,
they will compliment one another's strong points and flow together
in an unique unity.

INTIMACY BRINGS CONFUSION to the ENEMY

As praise teams and intercessors come together and yield to the
Spirit of the Lord, they will find a greater prophetic release
and a stronger sense of God's presence upon their churches and
services. The intimacy between the Bride and the Bridegroom will
increase and as the enemy searches through the smoke for someone
to fight, the Father will continue to send more and more
confusion into his camp!

WORSHIPPER, INTERCESSOR, & PROPHET 



THREE GIFTINGS  COMING TOGETHER 
WORSHIPPER, INTERCESSOR, & PROPHET

Finally, the Lord showed me that since the time Lucifer,
(the worship leader of heaven), the one that was created
specifically for worship, was cast down. The Father has been
without the "fullness" of that part of His creation. Even though
we worship in spirit and truth, even though we come boldly before
His throne, that position has never been re-filled! It has been
left vacant for ages. But the Lord says "Not any longer!

It has been reserved for a time, for a season and for a people
such as this! It's not because there haven't been worshipers or
there haven't been intercessors or there haven't been people after
God's own heart. It's because these three ingredients have had to
come together. Time, season and people.
Worshiper, intercessor and the prophetic.
They are all coming together for the glory of God.

The Lord is saying that He is now filling that forfeited position
that Satan once held, with you, the intimate worshiper and the
intimate intercessor, and the prophetic. In doing this, the Lord
is going to use the very thing Satan was created for & the
position he once held, to defeat him. The Lord is saying that it
is time for the church to have home court advantage. Don't get me
wrong, there will be times of hand-to-hand warfare & just
scrapping it out with the enemy, but now it will be done on our
terms, not his.  Glory be to God!

Rance Ramsey


GOD's NEWS



THIS IS THE JUDGMENT
that the Light has come into the world, 
and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, 
for their deeds were evil.  

GOD so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
Eternal LIFE. For God did not send his Son into the world
to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

He who believes in Him is not judged;
he who does not believe has been judged already, 
because he has not believed in the name of the only 
begotten Son of God.  John 3:16-19





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