Redeem America Tour Continues!
Oct. 6-8 SPIRIT OF ELIJAH CONFERENCE, Abilene TX
With Ed Watts, Jamie Fitt, Jon & Jolene, hosts Amy & David Black
Gold Monarch Healing Center, Abilene TX. More info: https://www.goldmonarchhealingcenter.com 

Yom Kippur Solemn Assembly
REDEEM AMERICA! To Watch the broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/live/HFcMoxglvrc?si=cj2e1zLTlUuw4ZCg

DEAR FIREBRANDS FOR JESUS,
THE TRUMPET IS SOUNDING. Today you are receiving a word the Lord has both spoken to us, and demonstrated to us—in undeniable ways. I’m also going to share simple wisdom for the future, some of which involves the recent House leadership shift initiated by Matt Gaetz. Do me a favor and read it through. 

Lets begin with the word. En route to Dallas yesterday, the Lord interrupted my mid-flight reading with a very clear word. I simply heard Him say, “America, come up higher.” 

Earlier in the morning it became very obvious to both Jolene and I that God’s alarm was still sounding a warning. As most of you know, we’ve prophesied about this since spontaneously receiving a shofar this April at Yad Vashem, the Jewish holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. 

That said, within the past week we have literally been surrounded by alarms sounding. Praying over a building in Youngstown OH when alarms went off across the entire city. Personal phone alarms that sounded even when the alarm was turned off. 

And yesterday, just before four in the morning, THE FIRE ALARM WENT OFF—on the top floor of our DC condominium. “An emergency has been detected in the building. Please evacuate immediately. Do not use the elevators. Have a good day.” 

OK I added the “good day” part. But the rest is verbatim. The race to the bottom at 4am was itself a cause for alarm. Thank God it turned out to be nothing. 

But surrounded by alarms the past few days, I knew the Lord was making a point. 

Did I mention that on the same day Matt Gaetz took down Kevin McCarthy, alarms sounded in every mobile phone across the nation?

Then on the plane the Holy Spirit spoke, “America, come up higher.” Immediately I remembered the scripture from Revelation 4.  

“After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in Heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said “Come up higher and I will show you what must take place after these things. Immediately I was in the Spirit, and behold a throne…” (Rev. 4:1-2). 

Wow. Come up higher. Suddenly it all made sense. There was both a warning and a window conveyed by His word. To this all I could do is bow my head and say, “Yes Lord.” I know you agree.

The great news is a DOOR IS OPENING for you and I to move in the Spirit, stand in Heaven’s council, and receive His real-time word. But there’s also a clear warning. An alarm is sounding a clear warning over America. We are facing an unprecedented challenge the most attentive of us can barely perceive. To preserve our freedom we must take the higher ground. 

Come up higher.

That said, here are a few “higher ground” perceptions related to the House speakership takedown over Kevin McCarthy’s deal to prevent a government shutdown. 

First, the Freedom Caucus failed miserably to genuinely sound the alarm for their cause. There was no effective messaging to legitimize a government shutdown, or the inevitable crisis that would ensue, to the American people. A government shutdown initiates the immediate destabilization of our economy, our national security, and so much more. And what made mattes worse, largely because of ineffective messaging, the American people were given no rallying cry to get behind the cause. Forcing the shutdown would have only brought reproach on the Republican Party. 

Which brings me to a second point. If the cause was actually legitimate to shift Speaker McCarthy from his position, not only should the messaging have been more effective, but MATT GAETZ SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE INITIATOR AND SPOKESMAN. 

Why? Because for years now, all of Washington DC and the nation knew Rep. Gaetz had a personal vendetta against former Speaker McCarthy. This was due to an investigation approved by McCarthy into allegations about drug-induced parties and sex with minors. Allegations of which he was later cleared. 

So if the concerns by the holdouts were valid, effective messaging should have made this much more clear. The alarm should have been sounded. And Matt Gaetz should not have been chosen to initiate the process. Especially with no alternative rallying point, the American people had no choice but to assume the entire government shutdown and resulting dethroning of McCarthy was only about FULFILLING A PERSONAL VENDETTA. 

Is that the alarm you want to sound? Is personal retribution a valid rallying cry worthy of America’s support and sacrifice? To shut down our government, even if it risks the complete destabilization of our nation? 

No wonder commentators throughout the nation and world are warning that America as a whole has lost credibility as a democracy. We are showing the world our very worst. Our actions are actively invalidating the hard-earned trust that once secured for honor and admiration for our nation. 

And it is by God’s kindness alone that a clear invitation is now being given. We must take care to respond. AMERICA, COME UP HIGHER.