Dear Friends,
 
We write to you to encourage you, to remind you that you are in our thoughts, and hopefully to minister to you from what the Lord is speaking into our hearts:
 
Revelations 3:14-22 Carries one of the greatest warnings and promises concerning these latter times, the launching of a deceptive and strategic operation of demonic activity to keep the church from living in complete dominion.  The Laodicean church had said concerning themselves, “I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing,” therefore they settled into a comfort zone and became “lukewarm.”  If this subtle, crafty and dangerous spirit is not detected and dealt with, it can and will bring great harm and loss to the life of the Church or the individual. This church was warned and also given a promise, “to him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”  This lukewarm, tepid church was lacking in passion and force.  They were a church whose members had no Godly drive, strength or zest; and had become self-satisfied.  Enthusiasm for a holy and supernatural atmosphere just wasn’t there.
 
Then how could they now overcome anything?  They were instructed to repent.  Complacency had brought this church to a place of wretchedness.  As described, they were miserable, poor, blind and naked – and didn’t even know it.  As well as repenting, the Holy Spirit said “I counsel thee to buy of me.”  In other words take council from the Holy Spirit, start paying the price and go to praying if you want to overcome this tepid, frail lifestyle.  If you buy something then you have to pay the price.  Unless they would pay the price and start interceding, they were not going to overcome the unleashing of this self satisfying attitude of complacency.  Because of their lack of prayerful combat, their present state was now one of no power for resistance.  If they were going to overcome this thing, then they must first repent.
 
We are told “the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence and the violent taketh it by force” and in their lukewarm state, without first repenting, they had no force to get hold of anything.  They had no strength to achieve or do anything profitable for the kingdom of God.  They, the church, had no strength!  When this subtle, strategic power of drowsiness and laziness gets a foothold in a church it will place a halt on all Godly kingdom progress and growth.  For the church of Laodicea to overcome and resist the deadly venom of this abnormal spirit of drowsiness they needed to repent for not praying.  The sluggishness and indolence of the church of Laodicea was robbing the city of Laodicea from experiencing a move of God.  The church had the opportunity to bring the manifested glory of God to their city in Asia, but instead they became sluggish in their own self-satisfaction.  This same dangerous spirit wants to rise up against the church today (the lack of praying), but all will not surrender to the neglect of prayerful combat and prayerful communion with God.  In the night time vision that God gave me on April 13, 2008 at 3:30 AM, I saw the brightness of prayer groups springing up around the world.  The brightness of their illumination could not be penetrated by the powers of darkness that was covering the land.
 
This power must and will be overcome!  “It is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” (Luke 12:32)  It is given to the faith based believer and in order to live the kingdom life we must overcome the danger of neglecting to give ourselves to prayer and the Word.  If there is a kingdom then there is a dominion, a domain, and there is a throne, “a seat of authority,” a place of ruling. He said of those who overcome this spirit of lethargy and lukewarmness, this place of self-satisfaction, “I will grant (give) to sit with me in my throne (seat of authority)” The real overcomer walks in a place of divine authority!  It is the real intercessors who press forward and pay the price that will bring to birth  the promise in Numbers 14:21- “But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.”
 
As you are reading this letter, God is calling a remnant from the four corners of the earth to become more committed to a life of intercessory prayer.  Will you make the same commitment?
 
AS WE OVERCOME THE NEGLECT OF REAL INTERCESSORY PRAYER, LET’S TAKE THE KINGDOM!     
 
Be encouraged in the Lord, dear friends, and in the power of His might.  We are so glad to be a part of this Prayer Army with you!
 
Much Love,
 
 
 
Bro. Gene & Sis. Lorene Wiseman