Gathered Around the Fire

Since the beginning of 5774 in the fall of (2013 AD), I have been talking about the significance of this year specifically September and the fall festival season of 2014 through the End of the year (September 13, 2015 AD).  This has since been confirmed by many prophetic voices, over the last several months, as I have discovered their writings.  Last year I discussed the converging lines of historical significance that the Lord reminded me of from my own personal walk in the Lord going back to 1971.  I cited several personal prophetic words given to me starting in 1987, then 1992, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2006, 2010, I shared these primarily with a small number of brothers in a men's prayer group I have been involved with over the last four years, since the fall of  2010. The men in the prayer group had already been meeting for two years prior to my joining them, they started praying in the fall of 2008 so this week, (September 24, 2014) ended their sixth...

MUSINGS ON THE YEAR 5775 - from the first Adam September 25, 2014 - September 13, 2015 Shemitah - A Year of Rest, Release & Return... My Historical Context   I cannot speak for others, but when I was originally called to Mankato, in the Fall of 1992.  I was called to the city of Mankato and to the region surrounding Mankato . I was NOT  called to join a particular Sunday morning congregation, as I was already a blood-bought and redeemed member of the Church. At that time, He spoke an invitation to me, to be a part of the end times work of God in this region. He told me that I would have to move here, live in their midst and that it would cost me everything. He told me He was going to change over leadership in the city, starting in the church, then in business, then in the government, and education. We have watched this word being fulfilled.  The Lords Account 1992-1998  I was also called to join a small band of men who were praying earnestly fo...

Excerpts taken from chapter 18 of a book entitled  Deuteronomy : the second law - speech 1  author: Dr. Stephen Jones -  Deuteronomy  It is of particular interest to me that Seymour would receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit on a street named Bony Bray, for it is a sign of Pentecost. As I wrote in my book on  The Wheat and Asses of Pentecost , Samson was an Old Testament Pentecostal type when he killed a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. Hence “Bony Bray” street is a fitting location for the most well-known beginning points of modern Pentecost... ...In the midst of these events, John Alexander Dowie was founding a Pentecostal work at Zion, Illinois. He decided upon that location by the end of December in 1899, just before New Year’s Day when the Holy Spirit was poured out in Topeka, Kansas under Parham’s ministry. On page 52  Mrs. Parham wrote about how this began, Sister Agnes N. Ozman, (now LaBerge) asked that hands might be laid ...

The Shared Roots of Mental and Physical Pain When we marginalize people socially we increase their pain "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The old adage is being called into question by new research from UCLA: Dr. Naomi Eisenberger has found that social rejection and physical pain are intrinsically linked in the brain, so much so that a lack of the former can impact the latter. How social rejection might affect physical pain In an experiment published in the 2006 issue of the journal  Pain , Eisenberger used 75 subjects to explore perceptions of physical pain in the context of social situations. First, researchers identified each person’s unique pain threshold  by transmitting varying levels of heat to the forearm. Participants rated pain levels until they reached “very unpleasant.” This provided a baseline for personal pain thresholds under normal conditions. Participants then participated in a ball-tossing game with ...

THE PLUMBLINE INITIATIVE A few of us, went to Hwy 169 / Minnesota River bridge at the large rock by the entrance ramp to Hwy 169 northbound and dropped our plumb-lines last night. We were 24 hours late for the Call to the Wall event, (details below) we felt a bit like the Israelites celebrating Passover in the second month, when they could not celebrate it at the proper time in the first month.  After an intense time of prayer and declarations of Jesus as King, I looked up and saw a sign, I mean, I saw a literal, physical sign. It was red and white and shaped just like a plum-bob, a triangle with the point pointing down at the earth and the sign said only one word...   YIELD! As in YIELD! to King Jesus, we declared our desire to YIELD! to the King of glory and we welcomed Him as king of this region into the gates of the city/region.  We declared this city would yield their rights to the King of Kings, to let the Kin...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!  TODAY It is Rosh Hashanah, the biblical new year. Thursday night prayer meetings at the Covenant Family building have ceased. If you would like to join others to pray, Covenant Family in Mankato will be offering some prayer opportunities, To learn more about the details call the office @ 507.345.1586  or contact the office and request a subscription to the weekly bulletin via e-mail. We have been asked by the elders to support other prayer efforts underway at the local congregation. 

*** First Time Visitors *** Please go to the  First Time Visitors  tab or    go to  Thursday night tab   If you want to share what we are doing with a friend please direct them using the URL for that page. ============================ 31-JULY-2014 WE ARE AUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTORS OF   CHESED   (God's Loving Kindness) or favor. My wife Diane and I are celebrating 21 years in Mankato today, we moved out of our home in Rosemount, MN and into to our Mankato house on East Main street on July 31, 1993. We moved largely because we felt God had led us to come here to be part of what He was going to do. Prophetic Word - July 1992 He was going to restore, redeem and revitalize this city. He indicated that he was going to be replacing the leadership in five areas of authority in this city/region. First, in His house(s) of worship, those who represent ecclesiastic authority Second in the business community,...