Thursday, June 18, 2015

PRAY AGAINST PARALYZATION

This morning I awoke to the shocking news from Charleston, SC as so many others. To say our hearts are heavy is an understatement. To say that humanity across the world are now praying for the family of the slain is expected. Looking at the news reports I saw the question that is always asked during traumatic events "Why God?".

Each Thursday morning at 7:30AM I host a prayer call with the official board of Smith Chapel AME Church and today as we prayed, one of our leaders made a statement that is true. She said that this shooting feels like a violation against and an attack on our church. Unlike many other congregations, we are CONNECTIONAL, even when we think the connection isn't as vital as it was decades ago. What happens in one part of the connection really touches the fiber of AMEs throughout world.

We are in shock now because of this heinous demonic assault against people of faith who had gathered in the presence of God, on their own property, behind their own doors. A city, a congregation, several families, and the entire denomination has suffered a trauma like unto the bombing in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963.

While we yet mourn, pray, comfort and seek justice there is one thing I hear very clearly from The Lord at this precise moment. PRAY AGAINST PARALYZATION! I implore those who are praying over this situation to pray strategically that the spirits of terror, murder, rage, hate, apathy, grief and mourning be dismantled as they seek to move against the denomination in an effort to create a paralyzed body.

Sisters & brothers, The Lord says to gird yourselves against the fiery accusastions against the protection, love and compassion of our Lord. Gird your hearts right now against the paralyzing thoughts that come against true believers in Jesus Christ. Trauma can paralyze...gird yourselves against this wile of our spiritual enemy. This demonic assault, executed by human forces yet to be exposed, is meant to paralyze. Govern your prayers accordingly.
This is the word of the Lord...
It is so...and so it IS!

Dr. GreeneBarr


Sunday, June 14, 2015

WATCHMAN ALARM: Open vision - off shore prison camps

What I'm sharing in this blog came to me in an open vision from the Lord, tonight, June 14, 2015, on my weekly prayer call. I do not know how many spirit-filled, Christ centered people read the material that I make available, but right now I can't concern myself with those details.

We had been praying about 32 minutes. At this time I was entering into the closing prayer when I began to have an unction to pray beyond the normal parameters of our weekly agenda. Earlier in the week the Lord prompted me to pray for black men to "gird up their loins" in reference to the Ephesians passage of God's armor. I began praying this when I saw black men being moved to prisons off shore in other continents. Before my eyes I suddently saw prisons currently under construction. The first prison was surrounded by what looked like redish-brown sand. There was nothing else in close proxcimity to this prison. The spirit of the Lord then told me that contracts are being negotiated to have United States prisoners moved off shore into prisons that are being built to house black men. 

If you are reading this and care anything about humanity in general and black people in particular I appeal to you right now to not turn aside in silence. Awaken every intercessor to this national threat. Satan and demons operate in darkness. Pray for the complete and international exposure of this strategic move against humanity. The strongman is the spirit of slavery. 

Because racism is so strong in America, the segment of believers who could "blow the whistle" on this are less than passionate about the collective African American community, we need God to intervene. 
Sunday, June 14, 2105
Arise watchman! Sound the alarm.



Monday, June 1, 2015

Dr. GreeneBarr's Morning Mediation June 1, 2015 (c)

Weakness is all around us and is increasing in depth. Our nation has increasingly become morally and spiritually weak. The African American family structure has become dangerously weak. The health of the average American has been weakened by poor dietary options and choices made from the youngest to the oldest among us. It is difficult to get people to even hear the truth about our weakness, much less raise meaningful discussion about new directions for restoration. Instead we are bombarded with multidimensional messages that encourage greater actions that lead to sure weakness on deeper levels. We need strength but what type of strength shall be called upon in this time of deception?

Romans 1:11 speaks to my heart today as a strategy for helping those among my sphere of influence who need to be strengthened. Spiritual gifts along with encouragement strengthens. Push back is seldom given when encouragement is expressed, but it is most certainly present when the reality of spiritual gifts is raised as an avenue for transformation and restoration. Bible Christians who profess love for Jesus are plagued by double-mindedness when it comes to spiritual gifts because these gifts are not manufactured by flesh. These gifts, the authentic spiritual authority (#AuthenticSpiritualAuthority) that transforms us into new creatures, comes only from the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. The same Holy Spirit, by the way, who did the work of raising our beloved Jesus from the grave. 

There are days when I am inclined to enter into the kinds of conversations with Christians that leave me being criticized as "special" all because I work in cooperation with the Holy Spirit. But most of my times is spent working the agenda of God, using the spiritual gifts that are resident in my life and ministry to make full proof of my calling. I have testimony that spiritual gifts strengthen even the weakest among us. I rely on God's strategies and methodology for doing this work of ministry, and I encourage others to do the same. I tell the congregation where I serve that they are given the choice of flesh and spirit in which to conduct the affairs of their life. I remind them regularly that the flesh does produce results but to use wisdom and choose the way of the spirit. Choose the results that the Spirit of God produces. It is always the best option. This choice means embracing spiritual gifts. 

My prayer for each person who reads my reflection is for an authentic spiritual authority (#AuthenticSpiritualAuthority ) to become their standard for the work of eradicating weakness in their life and the society. Holiness is still God's way, that has never changed. I am Rev. Dr. Cecelia E. GreeneBarr, I am an aspirant for the office of Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and this is part of my assignment (#onAssignment) from God. 

Peace and strength to you today. 
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