He Sees Our Victory by Bill Hernandez Prophetic Overseer

The Lord is above time always seeing the past, the present and the future. When He looks at us, He sees it all. Recently I gave a prophetic word about this in the fact that He sees each of us as victorious, crowned in holiness and purity. Though we are presently in various situations that don’t seem perfect, nevertheless from His perspective He sees that all will be and has been resolved. All that we are going through ends in victory and joy. He sees us standing before Him with a crown of victory. He sees us full of happiness, peace, calm, resolved, relieved, assured and that the battle is over. He sees us full of wonder over the new world, new friends and reunions with loved ones. Most of all He sees us deeply connected with Him, seeing eye to eye and celebrating our eternal union with Him. He sees us proclaiming His goodness forever and exalting Him forever.   “I will extol You, O LORD, for You have lifted me up, And have not let my enemies rejoice over me. LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me. O LORD, You have brought up my soul from Sheol; You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit. Sing praise to the LORD, you His godly ones, And give thanks to His holy name. For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for a lifetime; Weeping may last for the night, But a shout of joy comes in the morning…You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness, That my soul may sing praise to You and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to You forever.” Psalm 30   Though our hearts may fail us in the areas of faith and hope for our futures from time to time, He is fully confident in our glorious future. He is fully assured that this will all work out for certain. He is fully expectant and positive of how perfect our futures will be in the comfort of His loving arms. Call upon His confidence and hope. Throw yourself into His arms. Make a trade. Give Him your cares and take in His courage and strength. Give Him doubts in exchange for His certainty. Exchange your thinking for His thoughts and believe Him instead. Ask Him to banish fears and doubt.   “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 For more on this topic please listen to my podcast:

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- Blessings! - Bill Hernandez - Prophetic Overseer

Transformative Intimacy by Sierra and Karena Lout

Last Saturday night at Blazing Fire, Sierra Lout shared a message about intimacy with Jesus and how it can transform the world around us when we choose to lean in close to His heart. Sierra is a missionary with YWAM (Youth with a Mission) in Toowoomba, Australia. She’s part of an initiative called the Mercy Campaign, where she and her team serve those who have suffered from social injustices in her community. They work with refugees, middle school girls who have experienced trauma, victims of human trafficking, etc.  Sierras' back in Australia now and hit the ground running, so I thought I’d include some amazing truths she shared with us last Saturday: *Intimacy- close familiarity or friendship; closeness *Intimacy with Jesus is something that you have to intentionally cultivate and stay consistent in. It often doesn’t happen in an instant, but is a continual journey with Him. It’s inviting Him into our messiness and broken places.  *From the place of vulnerability and truly knowing that God loves us, we then can give Him permission to challenge us. We lay offense down.  *Lack of intimacy causes us to seek our own interests rather than His.  “The sheep that are my own hear my voice and listen to me; I know them and they follow me.” John 10:27 (Amplified) *Jesus is asking us to not only hear His voice but to listen. Listening leads to joyful obedience as we become more intimately aware of WHO is speaking to us.  *King Josiah grew in relationship with the Lord. Other kings failed to really seek Him which blurred their vision of what was really causing Israel to sin and rebel. Even those who did what was pleasing to the Lord were either afraid to address what was really preventing Israel from transformation or were only addressing surface level issues. Josiah’s relationship with God gave Him eyes to see the root of injustice, address it and bring transformation.  *How can true justice and transformation be brought if we don’t KNOW the originator of justice? *If we don’t cultivate intimacy with Jesus and gain His heart, we will only see counterfeit change. Sierra shared a testimony when she was in the red light district this past year in Thailand. She and her team were there working with girls in the bars/ brothels. After spending time with Jesus, she was surprised when He began to soften her heart toward the men who were purchasing women (“johns”). She met a man who was there for that purpose and he began to share his story of pain. She and her team prayed with this man and he decided not to do the evil he originally set out to do that night.  God is inviting us to be part of the solution; to identify the root cause of injustice and to be the light.  I pray that Jesus would reveal to you if there is anything that is preventing you from closer intimacy with HIm. As you lean in closer to His heart, I pray He would begin to show you your part in seeing greater transformation in the world around you. And I pray for the courage to take a step today! He loves you with an everlasting love!                                                          Love, Sierra & Karena Lout

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Covenant Love by Pastor Brent Lokker

Nearly 33 years ago, my beautiful bride Suzanne took my breath away as she walked down the aisle on our wedding day. Somehow, some way (I thank God nearly every day for this miracle) she wanted to be with me for the rest of our lives! Of course, we had already made our decision before we came to the time of exchanging our marriage vows, but there was still something very sacred about that moment when we declared our covenant intentions to belong to one another exclusively. God has made a covenant with us as well. And similarly, His heart Is smitten with us. We are the focus of His love and His desire! All that’s required on our end is a return of that desire, to want Him exclusively as well, and to realize that because of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross and His perfect righteousness, the lie of shame will never be able to take us away from heart to heart connection with the Lord.  I am my beloveds and he is mine! (Song of Songs 6:3) This past Saturday I spoke of the covenant love that the Father has for us, one that speaks of his heart that is always for us and never against us. I also shared how He is actually on both ends of this covenant, which means he made sure that he took care of all the details so that nothing would be left to chance! You can hear the astounding truth here:

The Father's Covenant Of Amazing Grace

To be wanted, chosen, adored, loved and treasured is the longing of every heart. This must be why the scriptures reveal that Jesus is the desire of the nations (Haggai 2:7). What this means is that every heart everywhere in the world is seeking the fulfilment that only Jesus can bring. We, as carriers of his light, get to introduce our astounding Jesus to a world of people who are frightened, lonely, frustrated and lost without him. This is why our heavenly Father gives each of us our life’s purpose:   God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.   So, we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 (NLT) Collectively, we are the bride He’s always wanted. The eternal covenant of grace has already been set in stone through the death and resurrection of Jesus. We just need to be sure that everyone gets in on this compelling love with and for Jesus, that they begin this life with Him that will never end! With Love,                  Brent

Why is the Goodness of God on Trial? by Pastor Brent Lokker

I can’t begin to imagine what it would be like to be the kindest, most compassionate, most generous, extreme lover of all humanity and yet be so completely misunderstood and blamed for so much evil that was never of His own doing. Of course, I’m referring to our gracious heavenly Father of whom David wrote:  You’re kind and tenderhearted to those who don’t deserve it and very patient with people who fail you. Your love is like a flooding river overflowing its banks with kindness. God, everyone sees your goodness, for your tender love is blended into everything you do. (Psalm 145:8-9, TPT) The enormity of our misconceptions of God’s true heart is precisely why Jesus had to come and live among us and demonstrate the truth of our Father. He had to “show and tell” the Father’s love and connect the dots for us so that when Jesus said, “If you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father,” we would be more willing to come into agreement with truth. In last week’s article, you read some of the prophetic promises we received from God and declared together on New Year’s Eve as we entered into 2020. You might be wondering, “With all the challenges going on in our world and in my life, how is it that God has so many good and kind and encouraging things to say to me? Is this for real?” Click this link to hear how I answered this question last Saturday:

Why Would God Have Good Things To Say To You?

My answer was three-fold: Because God is good by His very nature! (He can be no other than who He is!) Because you are His dearly loved child! (His affection and goodness for you as His child never changes!) Because you are one with Him! (God will never tear himself down, therefore He will never tear you down--only build you up until you believe who He says you are!) When we’re tempted to be discouraged, it’s so important that we hold firmly to that which is good (the good words from God that have been spoken over us), and to have confidence that God's nature and our secure relationship with Him are firm guarantees of good things coming our way!  This Saturday at Blazing Fire’s worship service, (6 pm at 7485 Village Pkwy, Dublin), we’re going to go even deeper into the goodness of God and how you can know that you know His heart is always for you and never against you, working all things in your life for a greater good than you could possibly imagine!

Prophetic Declarations for 2020 by various local leaders and pastors

New Year’s eve was glorious—filled with the presence and the glory of God! It was a big family coming together and adding logs to the blazing fire of God’s passion for us and our passionate hearts for Him. The evening felt altogether different and other than any previous New Year’s celebrations we’ve had.  We spent an entire hour making prophetic declarations together that were life-altering. It reminded me of this promise: “Yes indeed, it won’t be long now.’ God’s Decree. ‘Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won’t be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, blessings! Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and hills.’” Amos 9:13 MSG Here is just a taste of that hour—truly just the tip of the iceberg of all that transpired in those 60 saturated, powerful moments. (The recording of this time will be available on our podcasts sometime Saturday) Marti Souza 2020 is “The year of the mouth.”  God is releasing a fresh new ROAR in our lives! Heaven on earth!  The new things you’ve been desiring and believing for, God is saying, “I’m opening the doors for you to see the things that have been impossible in your life in the last decade.” The Lord says, “This is the time! I’ve been preparing you for the last 10 years so you can step into the harvest of this next 10 years. We’re going into a new harvest! Bill Hernandez I heard God say there is “Double blessing for 2020!”  I release a gift of intimacy for each one to enter into—deeper this year than ever before. Make it easy, Father, for each one to discern your presence. Chuck McCallum I pray a release of justice in the Bay Area like we’ve never seen before, that people who have been disappointed will receive the appointment this year. This is the year for double appointment and apportionment over many of you in Jesus’ name.  I pray the Lord would release more of that identity that He’s calling you into. There’s a transition for some of you. You’ve been walking away and the Lord’s going to tap you on the shoulder and you’re going to hear his voice like never before: double intimacy! Tiffany James It’s time for us to take off our running shoes and put on our dancing shoes. We’re taking off our running shoes because we don’t have to chase after anything anymore. The chase is over. Everything you need, you have. You are standing in the perfect place. The place of his authority, his love, and his total acceptance, because you’re standing in Him. We declare: “I’m taking my running shoes off and I’m putting my dancing shoes on and I’m gliding into 2020 with my Savior!!!” Diane Jung We’re coming into 5780, the mouth, we get to declare what we see, but we have to see from God’s perspective—His heart. God is saying, “you can all see. You are all seers!”  Father, break off the doubt and the lie of anyone who thinks they cannot see what you see. God is calling us in this next season to be like Ananias to Saul, partnering with God to be able to see the scales of hurt and roundedness fall off of people’s eyes! Brent Lokker We agree, Father, that you are the Lord of the harvest. Let us see what you see when we look into the eyes of every son and daughter who you love. Let us see the treasures in them, not the things that irritate us. Lord, we agree that the harvest is coming. We declare: “Here’s my heart. Lord, align it with yours and give me your eye to see what you see when I look at every child of yours. Amen!” Karena Lout It’s time for some of you to come out of hiding. You’ve experienced some pain and disappointment in your life, hurt in ministry or by people, and so you went into hiding. God was in it—he wanted to do a deep healing of your heart in some places. But I feel like some of you have been in there way too long and it’s time to come out, so I bless you to come out of hiding. The light in you is bursting out. You need to take it out already. You are more than enough!  “Jesus, seal what you’ve done. Make the healing you’ve done in this season of their lives known. Call them out! Give them the courage and the boldness to come out of that place. Thank you that the past disappointments won’t define them because You are doing a new thing! Michael Dowling It’s harvest time! So let’s just agree… What time is it?  Harvest time!  And who are the harvesters?  We are! Father, thank you for giving us the heart of Jesus to heal the broken hearted and those who have been crushed by calamity. Thank you, Lord, for that weepy heart that knows someone is hurting. Thank you for a word of knowledge to know where they’re hurting.  Go in the name of the Lord. Heal the sick, cast out demons and tell them that the Kingdom of God has come near them this day. What time is it?  Harvest time!! ************************************ There was SO much more! We engaged in numerous prophetic acts to heal the generations, to step into new territory, to birth the new thing Jesus has been doing within us, to get our voices back again, and to stop giving breath to anything we don’t want to live in our lives. And later in the evening, after we counted down the new year with shofars blasting, Lonnie Ellis led us into these 20 Declarations for 2020: I encourage you to say these out loud…like you mean it! "I decree and declare: I am God’s child! I live under an open heaven! I walk in supernatural blessings and favor in my life! I am the New Creation as stated in 2 Col. 5:17 I am anointed, chosen and called of the Lord! I am part of the Great Awakening that God is releasing! I walk in the love of Christ and bless those who curse me! I have the full armor of God! I will be slow to speak and quick to hear! My family, relationships, and friendships are protected! My finances, properties and assets are protected! My health is protected! I will become ALL that God has created me to be! I am the head and not the tail! I will not be defeated! I am an overcomer in Christ! Today I have victory over my past! Every illegal barrier, hindrance, restriction and limitation is broken! I will not be held back from reaching my full potential! No weapons of distraction, destruction, discouragement, frustrations or hindrance formed against me shall prosper!" This truly is an exceptionally good time to be alive! With a huge love and gratitude in my heart for each of you,                                                                                               Pastor Brent