In June, we more fully launched out into our County-to-County mandate from the Lord to release “A Whirlwind of Glory” through Worship and Prayer. I (Yvonne) had been joining Uptown Worship Nights for the past few months in their revival rallies at Trade & Tryon Streets, (Trade & Tryon Streets continue to be the two major crossroads of our city since its founding.) What repeatedly stirred in my spirit was that people indeed are walking about as in “the days of Noah” as the Lord had prophesied; therefore my internal groaning for the harvest grew in intensity:
Luke 17:25-27 (NKJV)
25 “But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.”
So after the second time that the permit for the Trade & Tryon location was denied for when our team happened to be scheduled to do worship, we pressed in and instead stepped into the very heart of the Epicentre of Uptown Charlotte (which dubs itself the entertainment center and unofficial town square) to stand in the gap and cry out to the Lord for an awakening!
Isaiah 57:17-19 (NLT)
17 I was angry, so I punished these greedy people. I withdrew from them, but they kept going on their own stubborn way. 18 I have seen what they do, but I will heal them anyway! I will lead them. I will comfort those who mourn, 19 bringing words of praise to their lips. May they have abundant peace, both near and far,” says the Lord, who heals them.
Then in July, the Lord further extended our prayer mission there by setting the Epicentre as the location for that month’s Strategic Prayer Outing. Our focus was on the Harvest and on taking back the Mountain of Arts & Entertainment!
John 4:35 (NIV)
35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.
“The Days of Noah”
We entered in the night by decreeing that Jesus is our true Epicenter – He is the center of the Universe, all things were created by Him, and He has been crowned “King of Kings and Lord of Lords”!
We ushered in the Lord’s Presence and decreed alignment with heaven – binding what is already bound and loosing what is already loosed. We prophesied, released visions, declared Scriptures and loosed the groanings of the Spirit.
A confirming word came forth at Glory of Zion the very next day – excerpt:
Chuck: There’s a marching in the heavens. God’s forming a new way for you. This is the sound going before the fall of your enemy. There’s a marching going before you of the angels of heaven. Your enemy will begin to fall.
Marty: And the Lord says I’ve heard your groaning from earth. I hear the sound and it is coming into My ears. I say it is a sound from earth that wants to join the heavenly host, and I am about to loose over your region a heavenly host such as this region has not seen before. The Lord says as you cry out I will answer from heaven and I will send. He says stand in faith for your region, for this state. I am about to loose the host that will do war on your behalf, and I have heard your cry.
Leann sings: I’m about to loose the faith of the troops. I’m about to loose the faith of the troops, and the sound of authority, sound of authority.
The Harvest and the Mountain of Arts & Entertainment – Taking back the land!
In July, we spent a couple of hours going from location to location in the heart of the Epicentre strategically praying for souls and for dominion in every area of cultural influence.
The Harvest
We had come across some simple, yet very good, teaching about the harvest and we stepped through it with our worship, prayers and declarations:
- We cried out for a revival of prayer and worship – that we, His people, His sons and daughters, would once again continually pray for His harvest, that we would set ourselves to always be carriers of His presence, that we would be so in tune with Holy Spirit in every and any given situation such that we could fulfill any role He had for us – be it praying, sowing the seed of the gospel or our testimony, relationally cultivating the soil of that person’s heart, or reaping the harvest by being the one who leads that person in the prayer of salvation.
- We also prayed that we would always remember that we are co-laborers together and are not in competition with one another – that we would always be mindful that it is Holy Spirit who leads, reveals and is the source of all of our increase in the knowledge of Jesus and in the fullness of the God-head.
Our Culture
We further decreed the “taking back” of the Arts & Entertainment Mountain. as God alone is the author of creativity, beauty and worship. We used the prophetic visions and words that others had received about the importance of this mountain and the Lord’s promises about restoration.
From an Aglow Blog:
Johnny Enlow states in his book, The Seven Mountain Mantle, “I saw in a vision that the Lord has a whole treasure trove of golden movies available for His sons and daughters to access. This treasure trove contains some of the best stories ever told to humanity. There are epic stories of incredible adventure, romance, danger, and mystery – but all told from heaven’s standpoint and with heaven’s purposes. The eyes of the Lord will begin to find those who are coming into Him and discovering the treasures of His heart. The world cannot compete with the stories that will begin to be downloaded by His Josephs on this mountain. This is the mountain where He will really show off. This is the mountain where He will release amazing glory.”
Excerpt from article on 7culturalmountains.org:
Randall Collins, a sociologist and author of Discovery of Society, states that the cultural network, made up of Education, Arts & Entertainment and Media, is the most important one in society as this is where society defines values and beliefs. As values are expressed through movies, media, education and the arts, it is adopted, often subconsciously, by those who view these messages on an ongoing basis. Unless those in the culture understand the messages that are being communicated and seek to alter those messages, then culture will be changed by whoever chooses to influence using the media avenues available to them. He explains that, since our birth as a nation, the US culture has been defined by less than 500 intellectual cultural philosophers who influence 7 gates and supporting networks .
So we arise and take back this mountain in the name of the Lord! We release the sound of heaven, the Voice of the Lord, and we loose His sons and daughters to awaken, to create and to take their place!! NO MORE DELAY!