Things I'm thankful for...

Ah, Thanksgiving!

Here's a very small list of things I'm thankful for

1. God is faithful
2. God is very kind and merciful
3. The IHOP community; a whole bunch of generally like-minded people
4. God's provision. (I don't have lots of extra $$$ but I don't have lack)
5. The Spirit of Revelation (Ephesians 1:17)
6. Friends with the initials of BMV, KYV, JFE, RRP, JMA, JPT, PKM, JF? etc.(you know who you are)
7. What will happen AFTER the current wilderness season ends.
8. 2 Corinthians 12:9 weakness (This is a projection...I believe this will be my conclusion when all the data and votes are in.)
9. Ministry partners who together have touched more people for the Kingdom of God than I can really understand at this point.
10. That I'm still alive!

Jess Gjerstad

More end-times studies...

It's sort of scary when it feels like God is giving me my life-long prayer mandate topics:

ON-GOING:
+ Righteousness and justice in our government (abortion, human trafficking)
+ Outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Church to purify, strengthen etc.
+ Increase of the Spirit of Prophesy (supernatural activity of the Holy Spirit)
+ Conviction and salvation of the lost.

END-TIME GLOBAL PRAYER SEQUENCE SET 1:
+ The calling, training, and raising up of forerunner messengers (indviduals and communities)
+The raising up of houses of prayer/prayer movement
+The raising up of a God-centered, alternative economic system

SET 2:
+TRANSITION POINT: Global extended fast for the release of the judgment of God (similar to the 7-7-7 fast at a whole different level) on the baal economic system (to be replaced by Babylonian economic system)
+For the Gospel of the Kingdom to go all nations and great harvest of souls
+Strength for enduring persecution, trial, and hardship
+The rise of cities and regions of refuge (particularly in Asia)
+Aliyah- global return of the Jewish people to the land of Israel

SET 3: TRANSITION POINT-
+Global extended fast out of Revelation 5:9-10 for Jesus to take the scroll.
+ The book of revelation is now our prayer manual ending in Revelation 22:17
'The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come!"'

(It's the end of the age as we know it!)
Jess Gjerstad

studying the End-Times.

I feel there is some Holy Spirit energy on attempting to bring intimacy and End-Times together. Most Christians I talk with want deeper intimacy with God. However, (just like me 5 years ago) the whole concept of the End-Times locks many hearts in fear.

("Were off to see Our Maker, the wonderful Maker of all..." near the end of the "yellow brick road" of human history are "seals, trumpets, and bowls oh my!, seals and trumpets and bowls oh my!")

I want to remove the barrier by splicing together MB's notes of intimacy, end-times, and few things I have found in the journey. In reality, understanding the end-times is supposed to enhance our intimacy with Jesus and our intimacy with Jesus is supposed to enhance our excitement for understanding the end-times.

In floating the idea out to a number of people, there are large number of people who want to get over this road block. Look for a 2009 E-12 group on this coming to mission base near you.

I'm back

It's been a LONG time since I've said anything on my blog as I have been warned by a certain someone about suffering the great "blogging away" which would result in being blotted out from my friend's book of blogs. Anyway...

Barack Obama is now our president Elect.

Some points on how to pray for this new public servant and his staff:

He ran on a platform of change. He grew up in a black church that emphasizes liberation theology. He grew up in the 1960's during the civil rights era where African Americans were often treated as second-class citizen (an ugly blot on American history) This gives me a powerful inference:

Barack Obama shares God's heart in that he HATES oppression and injustice!!!!

This gives me great clues on how to pray for him:

1.) Pray for God to overwhelm him and his family with His kindness. Pray for Psalm 91 protection for His family. It is SATAN that desires to kill him-probably through someone who is decieved into thinking they are offering God a service. Scripture clearly tells us no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

2.) Pray that God would open his eyes to see the most innocent, oppressed people group on the earth- a baby in the mother's womb that is suffering the "oppression" of experiencing an abortion.

3.)Pray that God would open the His eyes to see Israel as one of the most oppressed people groups on the earth from a historical perspective.

4.) Pray that God would give Obama prophetic understanding that it is SIN (including all forms of sexual immorality (homosexual and hetrosexual) that is the great oppressor; not white evangelical doctrine. (Some would say that this last paragraph is considered "hate speech".

5.) Economically- there has much sin through greedy people that has gotten us into this economic mess as a nation. Pray that God would give Barack Obama wisdom to promote economic servant leadership without stiffling economic initative.