 RI Capitol Prayer Gathering #dontmesswithourkids April 13 2024 There is a fierce, fiery, and fearless remnant in Rhode Island. "She" will walk in her God-given destiny as a symbol of HOPE for this nation of America. As I went off to bed on the eve of the RI Capitol prayer gathering, I had second thoughts and turned around to head to my prayer room. I just could not sleep because I had too much excitement in my spirit due to all that God had done earlier in the day! I sat down on my favorite sofa, turned on some worship music and proceeded to worship God which caused happy tears to roll down my face. My happy tears weren't because all was peaceful and joyful and everything went as hoped. The event was a showdown. A battle between God's army and Satan's army; between good and bad; right and wrong; love and hate. God prepared me ahead of time in the spiritual sense. He gave me 2 dreams in the weeks prior. In the first dream... I was a leader of a group of people. Then a group of witches and satanists infiltrated in the midst of our group. I said to my group, "Let them stay." In the final scene I yelled "God's power trumps Satan's power!" In the second dream... I was standing right in front of 2 satanists who were facing me and a person that stood on my right side, who was with me. I felt in my spirit to fight the spirit of fear and so I looked straight into their eyes. Then one of the satanists asked the person to my right, "What is your name?" He shouted his response in the satanist's face, "Lion of Judah!" It was God's plan to let the 20 or so opposers stay. The majority of the opposers were clearly people who identify as trans but instead of peacefully engaging the Christ-followers in civil conversations, they were loud, rebellious, and aggressive. In addition, there were 2 satanists who came and stood right in the center of our peaceful group and lastly there were 2 lost and confused disrupters who are regulars at every Christian event at the Capitol. It now became clear to me why God put it in my heart to play a song at the start of the gathering entitled "By Our Love" by For King and Country. The lyrics repeatedly state "They will know we are Christians by our love." The other theme in the song is of unity, as it repeats these words throughout, "We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord." It is important for the Body of Christ to model God's love toward each other and by this the world will desire to know the God of love whom we serve. I am so grateful that I did witness love and unity amongst the Christian group. We had a wonderful group filled with diversity; men and women; young and old; black, white and hispanic; Catholics, Baptists, Evangelicals and Pentecostals. The opposers did everything they could to disrupt our peaceful gathering by shouting through a bull horn, playing satanic songs on a large boom box, banging a drum, ringing a bell, and shouting inflammatory remarks. I truly believe that it was God's intention to draw these lost and broken ones into His family and to use His church to be the example of love with which to draw them. I gather this from my 2 dreams, but also from what happened as I approached the Capitol in my car. I was worshipping Jesus with my team and then suddenly I felt God's tangible presence. I began to weep and said, "Souls for the Kingdom. Souls for the Kingdom." Jesus said He came for the sinner and He instructed us to love those who hate us and pray for those who persecute us. Hate is what we felt from the opposers but the leaders who took the microphone encouraged the Christ-followers not to retaliate. One leader led us in a song which we directed toward the opposers... "Jesus loves you this we know, for the Bible tells us so." Another leader shared that he felt that many of them were abused and this led our group to view them with compassion instead of bitterness. My husband thanked the host of the event because he exercised great patience with the opposers, and we know that patience is a manifestation of love. One of the prayer leaders texted me after the event and told me that she had an interaction with one of the opposers. She looked into the eyes of a girl's masked face and told her several times that Jesus loved her. This brought tears to the girl's eyes which then led her to quickly cover her face with the sign she held in her hands. Referring back to my dream of meeting 2 satanists... I actually met 2 satanists at the gathering. I noticed immediately when the 2 satanists arrived and stood about 8 feet from me. I quickly walked over to the apparent trans men who were built like football players and wore bandannas over their faces like robbers from the Wild West. I extended my hand to each one while looking them square in the eyes and showing them a big warm smile. I said to each one "Welcome." They each surprisingly shook my hand and looked me square in the eyes. I never saw them again. They obviously left shortly after our meeting. I think the Lion of Judah had something to do with that! I had another love encounter with the leader of the pair of confused opposers. I really don't have any other way of how to describe this pair who show up at every Capitol prayer gathering. They appear to be confused and lacking in common sense and civil behavior and all the while they act innocent of any ill will. The leader and I go way back as we went to the same church decades ago. From that place of familiarity I pulled on her heart strings and asked her to please stop playing her very loud boom box because hers was drowning out my music that I was playing for the gathering. She immediately went and put it away in her car. She returned to the gathering and the next time I noticed her, she was swaying with eyes closed to our Christian music. I was filled with love for her and so I went over and took her hand and we swayed to the music together. I know without a doubt that the fearless love I displayed that day was because of the love of Jesus inside of me. One of the reasons why I chose to worship God on the eve of the gathering instead of going to sleep is because I knew that He was the one that made me fearless. But it wasn't just with me! My 25 year old son who attended the event and prayed a prayer for the youth shared with me before going to sleep. He said "At the beginning I was afraid. I never experienced anything like that before. But then I just closed my eyes and sang along to the worship music and suddenly I felt God's presence in a way that I've never felt before." He then said from that point on, for the following 2 hours, he was so happy, even though the opposers continued with their rage until the end. While at the gathering, in the midst of the battle, I looked around and was so proud to see the fearless remnant of God who didn't run away from the rain, the unseasonably frigid temperatures, or the fierce winds. Nor did they run away from the loud and obnoxious opposers who made it extremely difficult to hear the speakers and the music, not to mention, to pray to God. Our group of Christ-followers bore the resemblance of Gideon and his small army. Gideon had fear when God called him to fight but God filled him and his army with confidence; the confidence that comes from knowing that you have a mighty God going before you. I wish to exhort the Body of Christ. There is a war for our hearts! Satan wants our hearts to be filled with hatred toward God and toward one another. God wants our hearts to be filled with love for Him and for one another, the saved and unsaved. Satan wants us to harden our hearts in response to when others hurt us or hate on us but God wants us to keep our hearts soft and open to loving others including those who hurt and hate us. We must behave as true Christ-followers which means that we are to pick up our cross and follow in Jesus' footsteps. LOVE trumps HATE. LOVE trumps FEAR. GOD'S POWER trumps SATAN'S POWER. Rhode Island's motto is HOPE. Her flag has an anchor and the word HOPE. "Therefore, we who have fled to Him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls." Hebrews 6:18-19  Click video below for a recap of the RI Capitol gathering. |
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