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"LOYALTY ISLANDS SHAKEN" -
Joni Ames (Plus update on Michal Ann Goll's Condition)
Note from Steve Shultz:
As many of you know, one of our many "regular" prophetic "voices" and writers
is Joni Ames. I just received this word through Joni Ames along with this nice
endorsement from James Goll. Below James' endorsement is an update on Michal
Ann Goll's current medical condition.
Steve Shultz
The Elijah List
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Note by Jim Goll: "Steve - This is a good one from Joni Ames - you might consider
sending it out. I recommend this word to you." Jim Goll,
www.ministrytothenations.org
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Post-it Note by James Goll regarding Michal Ann Goll's
Condition--edited slightly for brevity:
"This is James Goll giving you a more personal type update on Sunday night December
28th, 2003.
"Michal Ann's surgery went very well -- but as you know -- we did not get the
breakthrough we were hoping for -- but all is not lost! We get to keep my wife
and now believe God for greater things - Body Parts! I am not kidding
"- we are simply going to kick our faith into another arena. I had an experience
recently where I saw The Heavenly Healing Rooms. There were body parts there!
So let's call some down!
"She is recovering well. She gets up in a chair 2 or 3 times a day and her swelling
is going down. She loves the cards and flowers people have sent to her. Her
spirit is good. The food people are bring to our home is great for the waist
line - NOT! But tasty indeed ! . . .
. . . . We will not quit! We will recoup! We will learn new lessons! By the
grace of God, Jesus shall be exalted and the devil will get another black eye!
Are you okay with that kind of faith! Let's not quit! Keep praying! It is breakthrough
time -- the time for Favor Has Come! (my last Vision Cast)!
Wasted on Jesus!
James W. Goll
Ministry to the Nations
http://ministrytothenations.org
January 3, 2004
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Heb 12:25-28 (NKJV):
(25) See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who
refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away
from Him who speaks from heaven,
(26) whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, "Yet
once more I SHAKE not only the earth, but also heaven."
(27) Now this, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of those things that are
being SHAKEN, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be SHAKEN
may remain.
(28) Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be SHAKEN, let
us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly
fear.
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Dear Friends,
Often times, through what happens in the natural, the Lord speaks prophetically
of something in the invisible realms. I'm reminded of the verse in 1 Cor
15:46, "However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward
the spiritual." (NKJV).
I believe, such is the case of the following experience.
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THE LOYALTY ISLANDS SHAKE
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The Loyalty Islands are a set of islands in the SW Pacific,
East of New Caledonia. They are a dependency of New Caledonia, have an area
of about 755 square miles, and their population is approximately 17,912. The
closest continent would be Australia, and that is over 1,000 miles from there.
Many refer to the area as being, "down under."
In the past month, a whole lot of shaking has been going on near there. Earthquakes
of 5.5 to 7.0 have been going in that region, sometimes on a daily basis. In
fact, there have been NINE such quakes in just the past couple of weeks. (NOTE:
For those interested, in seeing maps, additional information, and subsequent
updates, please consult the following web page:
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_cwbb.html
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SOME DEFINITIONS
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I'm a "Word (Bible) person" AND a "word (dictionary) person,"
so I researched some of the words that came through this...
LOYALTY is defined as, "the quality or state or an instance of being loyal."
ISLAND: a tract of land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent ; an
isolated group or area; especially : an isolated ethnological group
ETHNOLOGICAL GROUP: a science that deals with the division of human beings into
races and their origin, distribution, relations, and characteristics
I also saw LOYALTY ISLANDS as LOYALTY EYE LANDS, and sensed it referred to areas
that our eyes would continually land on and be loyal to.
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LOYALTY IS SHAKEN
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I was asking the Lord about this, because I have had MANY phone calls, as well
as some personal experiences, where it seems that there has been a "shaking"
in the area of those one would expect to be "loyal." I believe that the Lord
showed me the following:
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(1) We are in a time of intense shaking in relationships
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While some of the shaking that is going on in relationships is divisive and
from the enemy, I believe a great deal of the shaking is from the Lord. He promises
us that "everything that can be shaken WILL be shaken" in these last days.
We're in a time of war in which we must know FOR SURE who is loyal to us and
our nation. And the same is true in our personal relationships. We need to know
those who labor among us, and who the ones are that the Lord has called us to,
and even not to, walk with. And the Lord wants to know who and what WE are loyal
to!
Pastors often get "shook up" when their church experiences a "shaking" and people
begin to leave their church. Yet those I've spoken to who have gone after those
leaving and begged them to stay were VERY sorry they did! God has a way of shaking
and sifting things out in HIS timing to spare us of a lot of heartache.
I can remember when I was younger, I'd take everything so personally when relationships
would get shaken and begin to fade away. But every time I look back on what
occurred after that happened, I was VERY thankful that the Lord had separated
me from those situations before it was "too late!" Those relationships would
have been HORRIBLE for me! The Lord REALLY DOES know BEST!!! I also remember
when the Lord shook a business relationship from my life, and what a blessing
that turned out to be! Another time, a shaking came in my life into BOTH a family
relationship AND a ministry relationship, SIMULTANEOUSLY! But if it hadn't,
I'd never have stepped out into the ministry the Lord has me in today!
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(2) We can no longer afford to be divided racially, politically, denominationally
or by gender or nationality
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We are in a new day and age where NONE of us in the Body can say to another
part, "I have no need of you!" EVERY part of the Body must be recognized as
important and necessary! God wants to cross-pollinate us with other groups and
peoples and realize how special each is, even in the diversity of cultural giftings.
A friend once said, even of the political parties, it takes both a left and
a right wing for an eagle to fly! That is NOT to say that we are to partake
in anything and everything the other does. Rather, to celebrate our differences,
and find an area where we may meet in order to be an effective witness of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
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(3) No man is an island; He is shaking us to bring us together
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I know that many people have gotten "wounded" in the Church before. There are
many who are outside the church walls and say they will never be a part of the
structured church again. But, as the saying goes, "No man is an island." I remember
when the man who played the Lone Ranger died, the Lord spoke to me and said,
"So stop trying to be one!"
The days of the "Lone Ranger" are over. We each need each other, and we need
to come together and celebrate our differences, instead of fight over them!
Whether you are meeting in someone's living room or a church building, we are
ALL a part of the Body, and we cannot despise and say we have no need of one
another. That's not the heart of God.
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(4) We must be cautious of where our eyes and our loyalty lands
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The Lord told Abraham that every place He saw with his eyes was his. We need
to be cautious with the liberty and authority the Lord gives to us. We need
to guard our eye gates and our loyalty gates, for what we see, we can have or
become. There is a lot out there to gaze upon, but let's focus upon and be loyal
to the beauty of His Holiness, and the destiny we have in Him.
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SHAKING TO SIFT
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Not all shakings lead to an end of things. Often times a marriage, ministry,
friendship or business relationship is shaken because the Lord wants to refine
that relationship and merely "shake out" and "sift out" the "junk." Sometimes
the Lord just wants to get "to" the things that are "hidden" or "down under."
When people pan for gold or sift through a mine for diamonds, they shake and
sift what they come across, until they find the jewels. In many situations,
that's what it takes until we reach the "nuggets" the Lord has for us in that
relationship.
Whatever the reason, the shaking of loyalties is happening right now. Even with
those people or things we've clung to for years. But let's be wise and seek
the face of the Lord and HIS will in each one, not giving the enemy credit nor
allowing the enemy any foothold. Let's be willing to release who or what He
wants us to release; as well as willing to hold on through the shaking to get
to the nuggets in those relationships or situations He wants us to retain.
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PRAYER
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Lord, give us the wisdom and direction we need to know which shakings are from
you, and how to walk them out. Let us know whether you want things shaken away
from our life, or are simply bringing a shaking and sifting for the purpose
of refinement.
Thank you, Lord, that as you shake and sift our lives, you help us find the
gold and the diamonds! And in the process, you give us the grace to walk through
the process to victory!
In Jesus name, Amen.
Joni Ames
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Joni Ames
P.O. Box 411501
Charlotte, NC 28241
E-mail:
JONIAMES@aol.com
Website: http://hometown.aol.com/joniames
Newsletter site: http://JoniAmes.injesus.com
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"Women
on the Front Lines"
by Michal Ann Goll
$13.00 Book
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History is filled with
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