Dennis is the Prayer Pastor for Transform Yakima Together (TYT).  They've been working with me on the first customized 1Church1Day Community Prayer Transformation System for their network. 

Prayer leaders beginning with a coordinator for National Day of Prayer (Linda I.) in 2006 began to work with me using what was then called Operation Rolling Thunder.  Their powerful testimonies regarding prayers impact on crime are recorded in my book Operation Rolling Thunder revised edition.  They've continued collaborating together all these years and TYT, I believe, was birthed through this prayer in 2015.  

Now they are helping us pioneer this new system that I believe will help to connect and serve many churches and networks to build our Father's house of prayer while gathering elders back in the gates of their respective cities, counties and states. 

I was thrilled when I received his email this morning titled "Our Prayers are Being Answered" along with the picture of the article. 

​In 1988 God gave me a vision which I prophesied about in Springfield Christian Center in Springfield Oregon.  Dr. Larry Lea’s father in the faith, Bob Wilhite was the special speaker that day when I prophesied what I saw regarding how the body of Christ would mobilize and connect as the army of the Lord to pray.  The image that best represents that vision now resides on the home page of our app.  It was during this meeting that the prophetic gift was first recognized in my life.

This was before we had even heard of an internet or the world wide web. Little did I realize at the time that this word was also a personal assignment.

Thirty years later the vision is becoming a reality.  This is why I think it's important to share a little history. 
 
The revelation and message Christ gave me to steward was first embodied in CONECT (Christian Outreach Network Establishing Church-wide Teamwork).  It was designed to work by hand and through fax machines. As I proved God's word and this system in churches like Word of His Grace and communities like Springfield Oregon our technology matured. By the time CONECT matured into Operation Rolling Thunder (ORT) in 2005 email, website, Word and a variety of online forms were used.  The system was the same but the technology evolved. As it evolves, it allows us to equip leaders to become even more effective in mobilizing their people to pray.

Now I know most of you are bored already because I'm talking about administration. But hear me!  This is a critical component of leadership and required to connect larger churches and more people together to increase the power the Church has to project through prayer to enforce the will of King Jesus. 

The 1Church1Day strategy encourages more people to pray and to pray longer.  Part of that prayer time is to be devoted to watching.  Watching includes listening and reporting what they saw or heard (Habakkuk 2:2).  There are also people God has gifted with a prophetic gift and Amos 3:7 says God does not do anything without telling the prophets.  

Therefore, part of our strategy is to discover who these people are in our churches, networks or communities. They are easy to spot if you know what to look for. Why I've even found them in denominations that don't even acknowledge the gift nor the office.  Over the years I've found some legitimate prophets. Some are known and many are unknown.

So how are we supposed to interact with this gift?  1 Corinthians 14:29 is the scripture that inspired this article. It says, "Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge." 

So the question is, how are we to judge these words, dreams, visions or impressions?  

What are we supposed to "decide" about or judge? 

• The character of the prophet as compared to God’s word?  Are they humble and correctable or proud? (Matt 7:15-20)

 

• The word itself ! How does it compare to the Bible; God’s written word. (2 Pet 1:19)
• The history of the gift in the man/woman. Do the words come to pass?  Are they accurate? Samuel is a great example. The scripture says not one word fell to the ground. His words fulfilled (1 Sam 3:19)
• You decide, is this the Word of the Lord or not. 

If it is the Word of the Lord then: 

• What are you to pray?
• What are you to do?
• How does time factor into the word?  

That's what we do with prophetic words. That's one of the reasons we encourage forming councils or ministers because there is wisdom in a multitude of counsel (Proverbs 24:3-6).  2 Chronicles 20:20 says:

I just got off the phone with Apostle Nani who heads up the India Prayer League.  We were with him and the pastors of 24 churches who were working with him. They shared with me the watch schedules for their congregation on the day they take to pray using the 1Church1day strategy. 

The strategy was done mostly on paper.

Then there is Living Hope in Renton Washington. This church takes the 13th of each month as their day to pray.  They started on paper but quickly added the system to their website and integrated it with their church app.  

Simultaneously, we happen to be working with the Transform Yakima Together League who is rolling out their own customized 1Church1Day Community Prayer Transformation System.  They've customized our system for their network of 25 churches.  

All technology does is to help automate a process. In this case we use communication technology to help connect the body of Christ to build our Father's house of prayer for all nations, one person, one hour, one church, one day at a time. 

Do you have thoughts that torture you?  Thoughts that are painful every time you think of a situation or a person?  

Matthew 18:34 provides insight.  It says, "And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him."

What's the context?  This is in the parable of the un-forgiving servant. 

Unforgiveness is a debt that enslaves you to regret.  It's a spiritual law that gives the demonic legal right to come and torture you.

What are the signs of unforgiveness? 

• What situation or scenario do you wake up thinking about over and over?
• What situations or people come to mind again and again? 
• With each thought you play out in your mind what you wish you would have said or done?  
• Each time you think of the situation it leaves you with a sense of regret.

Regret, according to Dictionary.com means "a feeling of sorrow or remorse for a fault, act, loss, disappointment,etc.

Unforgiveness has three targets: