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March 5, 2006
BOB JONES AND PAUL KEITH DAVIS:
"MANY WATERS CANNOT QUENCH LOVE"ÂÂ
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FIRESIDE
CHAT WITH BOB JONES:
 This word is taken from an experience Bob had a few
years ago pointing to this specific moment in our prophetic destiny. It
highlights the past decade and the difficulties we have experienced but also
reiterates God's purpose for allowing them. Having the understanding that the
Lord is grooming us for something significant transforms our mind-set and
generates hope to displace hopelessness. Without this understanding, we would
indeed experience profound hopelessness and despair. A double portion of
restoration and return is our legacy.
THE SEED OF GOD
 The
cry of God's heart is for righteous shepherds to be raised up to feed and
oversee the sheep of His pasture. The Lord longs for shepherds who will love the
sheep and take their stand between them and the enemy. The Lord is presently
working on bringing forth His body to be joined to the Head, the Lord Jesus. The
task of the good shepherds is to prepare the people for this destiny.
One of the primary functions of God's leadership is to feed His body. This is
essential now so that they may grow up and possess the gates of the enemy. It is
the promise of God that His children will inherit the earth.
God's justice is about to be released from Heaven in a mighty and tangible way.
Nevertheless, that realization will be a source of blessing for the righteous
and judgment upon unrighteousness. That which remains will be our inheritance.
As the Word stipulates, I have been young and now I am
old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his descendants begging bread
(Psalms 37:25)
Therefore, we are now being called to a heightened place of intimacy and
fellowship with God. Our covenant is built upon better promises than that of
Moses. Even so, Moses was required to wear a veil upon his face because of the
residue of God's glory resting upon him. How much more should we experience His
glory in the new covenant!
Our council is to cooperate with Heaven and do only what we see the Father doing
and say only what we hear Him saying. The Lord is opening our eyes and ears with
the spirit of understanding so that our discernment is taken to greater levels
to accomplish this purpose.
RIGHTEOUS SHEPHERDS ARE EMERGING
The righteous shepherds emerging today will
be shepherds of love. It will not be in their heart to harm or abuse the sheep.
Many of these leaders will have known failure and through their failure
discovered love. They will have been healed of their brokenness, but in the
process, contrition will have become their standard.
The righteous shepherds will lead the sheep to calm waters, so that the body of
Christ can discover God in personal ways. Many of the shepherds will be emerging
from obscure and isolated places. They will bring an anointing to calm troubled
waters presently in the Church and will carry authority to speak into the hearts
of people. They will address the spirits of gossip and slander that bring
division to the body of Christ. They will still the troubled waters.
This group will respond to, "deep calling unto deep." We are being prepared to
travel in a way not yet known to the Church. Our call is to be prepared to carry
mantles of power that will be unique to the harvest generation. These things
will be called forth by the spirit of prophecy.
According to Isaiah
48:6-7,
"You have heard
[these things foretold], now you see this fulfillment. And will you not bear
witness to it? I show you specified new things from this time forth, even
hidden things [kept in reserve] which you have not known. They are created
now [called into being by the prophetic word], and not long ago; and before
today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, Behold, I knew
them!"
A fresh prophetic word is being delegated
to the Church to articulate Heaven's desire. Several years ago a drought existed
in the southern portion of Texas. While there in a conference, the Lord told us
not to pray for rain, but to declare it. The anointed prophetic word opened the
heavens and an abundance of rain fell.
This is a token of what is to come; it is our agreement with Heaven, and the
proclamation of His will. When a clear prophetic word has been imparted, it is
our place to announce it through an atmosphere of His anointing. That is part of
the bridal calling.
Those anointed with this spirit will begin to speak against sickness, sin, and
the spirit of poverty. This past season of grooming and refinement has been for
this purpose. There has been a sifting of our soul and the establishment of
contrition and humility in order to carry this level of power and authority. The
spirit of understanding will bring illumination to this reality and mobilize
God's people for this great task.
MANY WATERS CANNOT QUENCH LOVE
September 16, 2004, is a date that will live in the minds of Baldwin County
residents for some time to come. That is the day hurricane Ivan came ashore
directly over our county.
Our home is in Orange Beach which is a "sister" city to Gulf Shores. Both are
situated along the beach road bordering the Gulf of Mexico.
It has now been 18 months, and this region is still in a major recovery mode.
Following the hurricane, an article appeared in the Washington Post that
is both informative and prophetic. I'm not certain if the writer realized the
significance of his article but many of us in this area recognize the spiritual
application.
We are living in a season of extreme change and transformation. What our county
is experiencing illustrates a spiritual reality. He concludes his article with a
quote from the Song of Solomon with direct application to the spiritual destiny
of this area. I thought you might enjoy this well-written article by Michael
Grunwald and Manuel Roig-Franzia.
From the Washington Post
GULF SHORES, Ala., Sept. 17 -- The Tilt-a-Whirl was tilted, whirled and
crushed into a hunk of tangled metal. The Ferris wheel was flattened, the kiddie
rides were crumbled, and the Simple Simon arcade game was catapulted two blocks
away. The entire Gulf Shores Amusement Park was a shambles Friday, littered with
seats shaped like spaceships, key chains shaped like dolphins and other carnival
detritus.
The park once was one of the most familiar landmarks in Gulf Shores, a tourist
resort on the 32-mile strip of sugar-white barrier beaches known as Pleasure
Island. Now it is one of the most vivid symbols of the destruction wrought by
Hurricane Ivan, a killjoy of a storm that bulldozed seaside grills, motel
swimming pools, kitschy souvenir shops, rickety wooden boardwalks and other
mainstays of the nation's beach-vacation culture. It tossed the beach itself all
the way across West Beach Boulevard, dumping sand into restaurants, shops and
parking lots.
With 130-mph winds and storm surges around 15 feet, Ivan tore apart condominium
balconies, ice cream stands and motels as well as a massive concrete pier. Ivan
has not relented in its deadly rampage into Appalachia, but the tourism
infrastructure of Pleasure Island absorbed its most powerful punch.
The "E" in Souvenir City's marquee was impaled on the fin of the giant shark in
front of its entrance, and scads of the store's T-shirts, flip-flops,
sunglasses, seashells, rubber balls and coffee mugs were scattered around its
parking lot. Lulu's, a popular restaurant owned by singer Jimmy Buffett's
sister, lost its turquoise roof, and the Original Oyster House, another local
hot spot, was inundated by about five feet of water. A water park called
Waterville was almost completely underwater. And at the multicolored shop next
door to the Gulf Shores Amusement Park, a banner promised "ENTIRE STORE 60%
OFF," which was almost literally true after Ivan's floodwaters ripped through
the lower floor.
But the most striking image of Ivan's assault on Gulf Shores was the
dollar-a-ride amusement park itself, almost completely dismantled by ferocious
gusts. The unseen guts of the attraction--gears, pipes, insulation--were flung
together with toilets, mangled concession stands and a Hoop Shot free-throw
arcade game in a waterlogged pile of debris. Someone apparently tried to secure
one of the rides with pink gardening tape. A size 7 flip-flop, with the word
"Dizzy" on the heel, dangled from a tree that stopped the two-block hurricane
flight of one of the amusement park's thrill-ride seats--a "double rider," which
required a red ticket, according to one of the few remaining signs. It is hard
to imagine anyone riding it ever again.
"Oh, what a shame. That amusement park was a fixture of Gulf Shores," said Bebe
Gauntt, a manager at the local tourism bureau. "The kids just loved it. It was
one of the things that gave us our small-town feel."
That small-town feel has been changing in recent years, with luxury high-rises
rapidly replacing flimsy motels and well-heeled jet-setters gradually crowding
out middle-class tin-can tourists. "Twenty-five years ago, I could drive up and
down the beach and go fishing. There was nothing but those big, pretty dunes,"
said Sonny Hawkins, a former Baldwin County commissioner who was helping to
clear debris Friday. "Now you can't even see the beach with all the condos. It
makes you want to cry." In fact, rumors had been swirling long before Ivan that
the amusement park property was about to be converted into condos as well.
"Well, it was in a prime location," Gauntt of the tourism bureau said. "It might
not have lasted for long." Change is inevitable for any community; in this case,
Ivan might have accelerated it.
Still, Gauntt believes that Gulf Shores can maintain its culture as the kind of
place where kids go to amusement parks and eat cotton candy, even if the
amusement parks disappear. "We'll never lose that," she said. "That's who we
are."
She might take comfort from a storm-soaked Bible that somehow landed in the
rubble of the park, flipped open to a section from the Song of Solomon: "Many
waters cannot quench love. Nor can the floods drown it. "
by Bob Jones and Paul Keith Davis
Bob Jones
The Prophetic Ministry of Bob Jones
With Paul Keith Davis
www.bobjones.org
Paul Keith Davis
White Dove Ministries
www.whitedoveministries.org
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Bob Jones' Itinerary:
July 26-29, 2006
Ambassadors of the Kingdom of Heaven Conference
Hosted by Abiding Glory Ministries
Knoxville, TN
www.abidingglory.com
Email: info@abidingglory.com
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Paul Keith's Itinerary:
March 10-12, 2006
Heaven on Earth Prophetic Conference
Lion Heart Ministries
1802 Airbase Road, Louisville, TN 865-984-0302
office@lionheartministries.org
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