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Greetings!
It's been interesting, to say the least, here at the
National House of Prayer over the last few days.
Elijah experienced a great wind, a great earthquake,
fire, and then a still small voice when the LORD
wanted to get his attention. Over the last few
weeks we've also seen the effects of a fire, felt a
wind, and now experienced an earthquake. We
believe God is speaking to the Church in Canada.
Read on to hear what we sense that He is saying.
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"Fresh Wind"
In an earlier mailing entitled ?FRESH FIRE? I shared
that I felt God had sent a cleansing presence to
remove every influence of darkness out of our
parliament. I also sensed that after this cleansing,
God wanted us to pray righteousness IN to our
governmental buildings.
The recent team of 24 sent from Vancouver with
the blessing of the Vancouver ministerial arrived
prepared for an assignment and a strong desire to
pray right in the House of Commons. The door
opened with the help of a former M.P. and two other
staff members. While praying in the entrance to the
House a strong wind came rushing in! I stepped back
from the entrance to see where this wind was
coming from and in a few paces discovered there to
be no wind and no open door or window!
8
year old team member Jessie, came to Ottawa with
the desire to pray for righteousness and justice in
the halls of
our government, and prayed as a young Josiah in this
open doorway. The sense that God was hearing our
cry and filling the House of Commons with His
presence was very real.
Next, we prayed at the Senate and experienced the
same wind! The room seemed to become a vacuum
through which the air rushed in. God?s favor also
gained us permission to prayer walk undisturbed
throughout the visitor?s gallery of the House of
Commons. Praying over every member?s seat below
and in the Press gallery was a special privilege this
team won?t forget.
To our amazement, even
here the heavy and thick curtains that cover the
doorways to the gallery were moving ?sideways? due
to a wind. In the foyer outside the House there was
not even a whisper of a breeze!
As the team debriefed, we all felt that we had
witnessed a manifestation of God?s presence in
response to a praying Church. Just to underline the
event, the team felt led to pray about this wind and
that evening, Ottawa experienced a strong wind
storm and Montreal came close to declaring a state
of emergency due to the forceful wind. The west
coast experienced winds nearing hurricane force,
while the Arctic reported unusual wind and weather
patterns at the same time.
Seven days later, Watchmen for the Nations leaders
from across Canada gathered at the National House
of Prayer to seek God on behalf of our nation. On the
Friday night as we
listened to David Demian declaring that the whole
earth is
groaning, at that moment we felt a 4.5 earthquake
rumble
through our building, and shake all of Ottawa! Just
before this, First Nation?s leader Kenny Blacksmith,
had an impression of an army of angels marching and
he felt that we were not hearing the sound. He was
just about to say something about this when the
earthquake hit.
No, I do not think that this was just a coincidence.
An earthquake of this size is rare in the Ottawa
region. The Ottawa Citizen reported the next
day, "The magnitude 4.5 quake is 'the strongest we
have had in Ottawa for quite some time,' said John
Adams, a seismologist with the Geological Society of
Canada." The fact that God?s timing arranged for
50 Church leaders to be in an upper room in our
nation?s capital to experience such a natural
phenomena is surely a sign to the Church that God is
shifting something in our nation!
We were amazed at this event and through this and
much of the above, (fresh fire, fresh wind), we have
been deeply strengthened and feel a fresh alertness
in our intercession.
Be encouraged, God is on
the move in our nation! Join together with others
who are praying and let?s corporately ask for that
fresh wind of God to move from coast to coast to
coast across this land.
Rob
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We are getting easier to find! A wonderful
lady was trying to get a hold of us this week. She
didn't have our number, so she called the operator
and asked if they had the number of "that prayer
house in Ottawa." The operator said, "Oh, you mean
the National House of Prayer? Here's the
number..."
By the way, remember that we
have a new website
and related email addresses. Some of you are still
using our old address. Please note our current email
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would also be very happy if you would forward this
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representing you in Ottawa,
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