Tag: Encouragement
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Affections and Idols
By Kathi Pelton As I was surveying the current state of the world around us, I was struck by the reality of the vast amount of distractions that have pulled on our “affections” prior to this Covid-19 quarantine. From the activities of going to a restaurant for a meal– to seeing a movie– to shopping…
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Extracting The Precious From The Worthless— The Wheat From The Chaff
By Kathi Pelton Often the Lord will speak to me through short “one liners” that just echo through my spirit until my soul stops to listen closer and press in for more. I’ve had a few of these “one liners” doing just that since the quarantine began. They are short sentences such as these: •…
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Find Him— Hold Him! And Do Not Let Him Go!
By Kathi Pelton For a week now the the words found in Songs of Solomon 3 have been echoing through my spirit; awakening desire, longing and first love. ““I will rise now,” I said, “And go about the city; In the streets and in the squares I will seek the one I love.” I sought…
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A Preemptive Strike of Prayer— A Shaking For Awakening!
By Kathi Pelton For days now I have had a deep sense that the enemy is trying to change times and seasons. His plan is to prematurely initiate things that would “buy him more time” and stop the Church from occupying land that he has held. God will use this “pandemic/epidemic” to usher the Church…
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Jericho Walls Will Fall During This National Day of Prayer— We Will Recover!
By Kathi Pelton “Now the gates of Jericho were tightly shut because the people were afraid of the Israelites. No one was allowed to go out or in.” Joshua 6:1 No one was allowed to go in or out. Does that sound familiar? There was fear in Jericho because of what God had done through…
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A Mic Drop Moment
By Kathi Pelton Last night during our “Movement Night” at our church here in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Aaron Custalow shared such a powerful message. Toward the end of his message there was a moment when Aaron shares an encounter he had years ago where he had been striving to please God and running so hard for…
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A Spirit of Idleness Is Coming Off God’s People
By Kathi Pelton This morning I kept seeing a specific assignment that has been sent against many of God’s people that was keeping them from effectiveness and fruitfulness. It was an assignment to create “idle lives.” It was coming through depression, anxiety, cynicism, illness (infirmity/injury), hopelessness, rebellion and even mental illness (or mental fog). These…
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It’s Time To Prophesy His Answer!!
By Kathi Pelton All day yesterday I kept hearing the Spirit of the Lord say, “Turn your prayers into prophetic decrees over those areas that refuse to move! I have heard your prayers so now prophesy My answer!” It’s time to prophesy what the Lord has said over that area, that person or that circumstance…
Oceans in the Desert 