I just posted a decree in the Family section for everyone with a 1Church1Day app to proclaim regarding the First Nations. You can only access it if you have an app or have signed up with us via the website (see top right hand corner at www.KingdomLeague.org).

This was also accompanied by an alert sent regarding the rising threat of North Korea's use of nuclear weapons.  If you don't yet have your app, click here download it now!  If there were ever a need for corporate timely prayer it is now. 

So what does a "decree" look like in our 1Church1Day System?     
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Yesterday I was honored to officiate a “Church Covenant Marriage.” Just prior to the service I had a marvelous time of communion with the Lord as Holy Spirit illuminated the "mystery of God." I was captivated by the revelation of what marriage pointed to starting from the dawn of creation.

It helped me better understand Satan's multifaceted attack on God's design. Let me highlight one aspect by asking, what’s the difference between a typical wedding in America verses a Church Covenant Marriage? The typical marriage ceremony in the Church in America has been slowly watered down as the moral integrity of the Church has been compromised to accommodate a changing modern culture.

However, most of us don't realize it because of the slow subtle half truths and heresies introduced through the decades. I say this speaking from my perspective having been raised during the sexual revolution in America.  The cultural changes (free love, co-habitation, the mocking of the roles of father and mother through Hollywood, the attack on sexuality, gender, abortion etc.) certainly impacted the Church and watered down some of the revelation and power found in covenant in the church and in marriage. It also impacted the laws our government created such as "No Fault Divorce."  This is why we are not grasping the full blessing found in the "mystery of God." 

In my previous article "Taking Marriage Back Through Covenant,” I shared about the history of “no-fault divorce” introduced in 1970 by President Ronald Reagan. “No Fault Divorce” is one of our adversary’s strategy to undermine God’s design. If we look at this in context in America we see this decision sandwiched between taking prayer out of schools in the early 60’s and legalizing abortion in the early 70s. This was followed by the removal of the 10 Commandments from school.  What is the fruit of these decisions?

• Divorce more than doubled - click here for Marriage and Divorce what to the Stats Say?
• 59+ million of the most innocent unborn murdered by 2016 - click here for source document FS01AbortionsinUS.
• Families without fathers has risen dramatically such that 72% say that this is the most significant social problem in America - click here for The Extent of Fatherlessness.

There are two main things to draw from the article “Taking Marriage Back Through Covenant.” First, there is a way, a strategy, for God’s people, His church to take marriage back out of the hands of the state right now.  Second, God wants to restore this glorious mystery and the power of covenant back to local churches and families. It just requires the Church to understand and embrace biblical covenant and to function according to His divine design. When we do, we will see divorce in the Church decline dramatically.  This change will help restore the Church's moral authority.

​Marriage & the Mystery of God

The couple whose wedding I officiated at both have a prophetic gift.  God spoke them out of Colossians 2:2

The word translated "sin" most frequently in the Old Testament means "to miss the mark (Strongs h2398 - hata)." It's like an archer who aims at a target. You can aim to high or you can shoot to low and miss the mark. 

Sin hurts people. Sometimes sin hurts the perpetrator and sometimes it hurts others. 

Righteousness is the opposite.  When the person does right people are blessed.  

Disciples are disciplined practitioners of what the Bible teaches. You can pray to receive Christ as your Savior, repent in some areas but be ignorant of what God's word says in other areas.  Or, you can be knowledgeable of what God's word says and just choose not to do it or  you could mis-understand it. Bottom line, it is the doers of God's word who are blessed (James 2:19-26). 

I was raised in a segment of Christendom who equated poverty with holiness.  Later I was exposed to a segment of Christendom who went to the other extreme and equated their accumulation of wealth as God's affirmation and righteousness.  The bottom line is both of these statements are not true.

Our goal is to hit the mark as defined by God's word. We want to aim accurately.

Some years ago God began to change my mindset about the kingdom, generosity, business, the Church etc. as I'd inherited from my parents a poverty mind set.  I needed to renew my mind. Besides God's word I sought out godly men and women who could teach me more about how to apply God's word with regards to finances. 

One of my mentors is Sean Hyman. He is a former pastor who is an investor.  He applies God's word in business.  This morning he posted an article on Facebook "Four things millionaires do that the middle-class doesn't."  

I remember reading in one of Sean's newsletters that one of the people he learned from is Warren Buffett. He's very successful and he is not saved!  But, when it comes to investing, he applies the wisdom from God's word.  One of the things we learn from this is that doers of God's word are blessed (James 1:25).  James 2:19 says that even the demons believe there is one God.  So it's not just those who believe but those who act upon God's word that are blessed.

With this in mind, let me share with you the four major points in the article and how each one is an application of the wisdom of God. 

Next weekend I am honored to officiate a wedding for a long time friend and partner with KLI.  What's unique about this wedding is that the husband and bride will enter into a marriage covenant through the Church vice a state wedding.

What do I mean by that?  

I'll answer that with a little history. As I began rolling Operation Rolling Thunder across Washington state in the mid-2000's marriage came under attack.  How?

The state began efforts to redefine marriage as something other than between a man and a woman. Secondly, the state had enacted laws that sought to silence or control speech by ministers as it pertained to legal, political and even moral issues.  Bottom line, there was (is) an attack on the First Amendment, the freedom of speech.

As I researched this issue I came across a book called the Triumph of Justice published my Morningstar and written by an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi.  In it I discovered something fascinating.  The author said that those who practiced Judaism in America only experienced a 3% divorce rate.  That's significantly less that the divorce rate in Christendom (click for Marriage, Divorce & the Church, what do the stats say?).   I was shocked as divorce is allowed in Judaism with less restriction than in the New Testament.  So the question in my mind was WHY?

Proverbs 22:3 says "A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple pass on and are punished." It also says in 1:5 that "A wise man will hear and increase learning,  And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel."

I won't go into my personal journey but suffice it to say you can be saved and going to heaven regularly give tithes, offerings etc. and yet not prosper.  Why?  Because of ignorance.  Ignorance of God's word as well as understanding and knowledge.  Starting in 2000 I began to invest time and effort into acquiring knowledge understanding and wisdom as it pertained to finances and understanding kingdom economics and its operations in business today.  

I've acquired counsel through a former pastor turned investor. Why?  Because he applies God's word.  He does what he teaches.  For example, he has no debt.  Why?  Because God's word says to owe no man anything but love.  Think about this.  How different would your life be IF you applied that element of God's word in your family? 

He's helped me understand business markets. Because of the size of America's economy it impacts the world. 

Therefore, I thought it prudent to share with you some elements from a weekly briefing I receive as I'll use it as source material for our Business Decree this month.  You can get his newsletter from http://ultimatewealthreport.com/. 

Economic Indicators Point to a Looming Economic Storm

This article is being used to provide background for decrees we can pray and proclaim in the business sphere.  Click here to get your 1Church1Day app.

The images below are from one of his weekly briefings.  Bottom line he illustrated using a variety of graphs to show that business pros see a very risky business environment. They see things like:

• There is an increase in gold purchase (investors use this as a hedge for dangerous financial times)
• Consumer debt is at an all time high
• Few people have emergency funds
• The housing market is way over extended (like in 2008)
• The stock market has a PE ratio higher than it was prior to the 2008 recession

Sean Hyman is our advisor and he went on to pose this question.  Can Trump save the stock market from crashing?  Ultimately no!  The stock market is influenced by emotion, hype, fear, greed, etc. but at the core there are fundamentals that work that bring correction.  

President Trump has inherited a historically low GDP.  It needs to be at 3 to 4% to sustain growth.  It's closer to 0.9%.  He inherited a bloated stock market and housing market. It normally takes policies 9 months to a year of application before it even begins to take effect. People and the news will blame Trump but the truth is, it is not his fault.  So it is important to recognize that.  

We can expect to see the stock market and the housing market drop significantly in the short term.  But for those who are wise, there is opportunity.  To learn how we can pray and respond I'd encourage you to get the 1Church1Day app and visit the Business Decree section and pray and then act. 

In Daniel 4:2 the prophet says "I thought it good to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked for me."

Yesterday was April 1st. That marked the 8th year since I spoke for Dutch Sheets at, "Awakening in our Day Reformation in our Lifetime Conference." I've taken a few short clips (4 min) from the 50 minute sermon to share here. Click here for the short video clip.

This day was a miraculous day that God marked with a sign and a wonder that all witnessed (thundersnow). This was the 1st conference that I'd ever shared my new book "Operation Rolling Thunder." When I published it at the end of 2008 we'd only recorded 12 major signs and wonders God gave to mark the message.

In the audience was Dr. Peter Wagner. In 1994 someone passed my manuscript outlining the principles as well as the basic prayer strategy that formed the basis of CONECT (Christian Outreach Network Establishing Church-wide Teamwork), then Operation Rolling Thunder and now 1Church1Day. At the time Dr. Wagner was teaching at Fuller Seminary and headed up their missions department. I was so surprised when I he sent me my manuscript back. He'd actually read it and there was so much red ink all through it. But on the front cover he wrote "nice theory, no proof."

NICE THEORY.... NO PROOF! God knew that was the perfect challenge for me for I set about to take action and prove God's word. Now, 15 years later, the man that issued that challenge is in the audience. I wanted to thank him and I began to rehearse, like Daniel, all the things I had seen God do for me.

I'd just returned from Alaska one week before where I saw God mark the message I carried with three amazing signs and wonders (included two volcanic eruptions, an international date line and an earthquake). Note, the word delivered or the actions performed set the context for these events.

One hour after I had ministered the word, the strategy now encapsulated in 1Church1Day, God performed another sign and wonder. Thunder-snow occurred in the four cities surrounding us. Which, that means nothing, unless you were there and heard me share how thunder-snow had marked a couple of our Kick Off events for ORT. The delivery of a specific word from the Lord provides context for the signs that followed.