In April I submitted a word to the Elijah List entitled "Spying on the Enemies War Room." http://www.elijahlist.com/spying042700.htm

In that word I felt that the Lord was going to reveal schemes and tactics of the enemy to the intercessors. The Lord has revealed several things to our intercessors through our obedience to "plant listening devices" [through our prayers and intercessions] in the enemy's war room. I want to share one thing in particular at this time. This revelation unfolded over a period of a couple of months through a series of visions.

HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT

In the vision, initially 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 that 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 AND 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 and 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!

THREE ASPECTS COMING TOGETHER, WORSHIPPER, INTERCESSOR, AND THE PROPHETIC

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. And in doing this, the Lord is going to use the very thing Satan was created for and 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 and just scrapping it out with the enemy, but now it will be done on our terms, not his. Glory be to God!

Rance Ramsey