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The Lord calls you `the hill', even the hill of the Lord, even My Holy Hill, which shall shout for joy at My Presence.”</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Lord would say unto His Church, “Who among you shall ascend the hill of the Lord”?</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>For I have called you to be My Holy Place, even to be a place of clean hands and of a pure heart. I have called you to be a place of washing, a place where the soiled is cleansed, a place where actions are weighed and purified, for I am desiring falsehood, lies and substitutes to be purged and removed from your midst by the reality of My Truth.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>My Church, I have called you to be a people whose vain swearing is put away, to be a people whose oaths and commitments are fulfilled and honoured.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>I have called you to be a blessing, to be a people who receive their vindication from the Lord, even ones whose heads are lifted up.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Lord says, “As your gate opens before Me, and becomes the gate of My Entry, there shall be a revealing of the King of Glory, even of the One Who is strong and mighty, the God of Battles, and of warfare, and I shall bring you out of that which is soulish, and further into the realm of My Spirit, and you, like My Son, shall know what it is to ascend.”</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>For within you lies a generation who will seek Me, and behold My Face. Indeed, your youth shall follow after Me, find Me and commune with Me face to face.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Church of Te Puke, I shall turn you about face, for I will cause a change of direction to come upon you.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Lord would say unto His Army, “About face, turn and return to Me, for I am desiring to see your face. Let it no longer be hidden from Me, for I am desiring to take you from glory to glory, for you to be open-faced before Me as you draw near to Me in intimacy.”</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>My Church, receive My Breath upon your face. Desire the kisses of My Mouth. Embrace the kisses of your King, for My Kingly kisses of passion are the kisses of awakening and you shall perceive, recognise and comprehend that it is all about Me, as you seek My face.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Te Puke, you shall be a place of fruitfulness within the nation, even a place that shall bring forth My Christ likeness, for I have placed My Stamp of Seven upon you, even the stamp of My seven-fold Spirit, and My Seal upon the plans and purposes I have in store for you.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Church of Te Puke, you shall know an uplifting and you shall decree, “There is a lifting up,” for you shall know the Seventh Day, even the blessing of the Seventh Day, even of My Sabbath Rest.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>For the Lord would liken His Servant-Leaders unto the seven princes of Persia, who sat before the King, and beheld the King's face.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Lord says unto His Elders, “As you sit and wait before Me, you shall hear My Words, and receive My Commands, and your city shall become a place of first fruits, for you shall be a place of new beginnings, even a place which will lead in fruitfulness.”</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>The elders of Persia were wise men. In like manner, I am raising servant-leaders who will be wise in My Judgements, and in My Laws, ones who know the protocols of their King. For they shall discern the erring Vashti's and will correct the disobedient with My Wisdom.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>My Leaders, you shall be men and women of living solutions. You shall give counsel, provide answers and know what to do as grievous matters and offences arise within  My Body.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Indeed, your influences will affect the nation for good, for I have called you to be ones who will address wrongs and right them, to be ones who remove corruption and contempt from My Body.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Lord says, “You are Servant-Leaders who watch over the King's affairs, and over the affairs of your nation, for the betterment, and for the welfare of the people.”</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>My Elders, I would have you arresting evil, removing cancers, tending rebellion, and stopping the spread of infection. I would have you challenging that which is unhealthy and causing that which is unsound to cease.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>For the Lord says He will no longer tolerate those with a heart like Vashti's, but He will raise up others in their place, even interceding Esthers, even His Bride, within the city, those who love Me with bridal hearts.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>My Leaders, you shall bring messages which honour the King, and I shall place pleasing advice within your mouths.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Like the seven princes of Persia, what you do and decide, says the Lord, will affect provinces, towns and cities, for the message of My Lordship shall go forth, and be sounded afar across this nation, and My Words shall be made known in this land.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>National affecters sit within your gates, Church of Te Puke, even like the seven princes of Persia, they sit first in the land before Me, knowing My Heights, guarding the high places of the land.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Te Puke, the Lord says that your gate is a Bridal Gate, even a gate of His Nuptials. For the Lord would liken your gate unto the Gate of Bethlehem where proposals of marriage were discussed, decided and agreed upon. Even so, your gate is a gate of marital blessing, a gateway for the Bridegroom and of the Bride.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>For My Leaders are elders who witness to a signed, sealed and purchased Bride, even as the elders of Bethlehem witnessed the purchase of Ruth through Boaz's transaction at the gate.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Like Bethlehem's elders you will recognise and reject those who have no authority nor right to sit at My Gate, for I have given you the ability to discern false “kinsmen” and false “redeemers”, for I shall unveil the intents of men's hearts, and reveal inner motives of selfishness and agendas of impurity.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Lord would liken the Church of Te Puke unto His Servant, Ruth, even unto a virtuous woman, for you are a humble harvest worker in My Field.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Lord calls His Servant-Leaders elders of blessing, for you care about My Salvation, and are concerned for the land's redemption and restoration. Yes, you stand confirming My Word, and My Ways. Therefore, the Lord says you will see change and you will recognise Me moving throughout your land.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Your gates, Church of Te Puke, shall know the sandal of My Purchase and of My possession, the evidence of My Ownership over you shall be manifested, for I have bought you with My Shoe, and you shall walk in My Ways.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Lord says to His Servant-Leaders that you are those who perpetuate the spiritual inheritance of the land. The Lord says that from the gate of His native place shall the first peoples of the land be honoured, for I will establish justice within your gate.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Lord is about to honour His Elders, for you have honoured Me, declares the Lord. For I have seen your bowing hearts at the gate, therefore I have placed Myself in the midst of your gate, even as Boaz placed himself in the midst of the elders of the gate of Bethlehem.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Even as they saw and communed with My Servant, Boaz, even so you have communed with Me.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Lord says to His Elders, “You have allowed Me to become your Boaz; therefore I will honour and raise you up.” The Lord says, “You are wise decision-makers, and you are seated well at My Gate. My Prophetic Apostolic anointing shall come upon you, and you shall rejoice and behold the restoration and the building up of My Name.”</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>My people shall recognise the covenant of Marriage which lies within your gate, Te Puke, for I will display the tokens of your virginity therein. My Voice shall be heard through My Elders, and I will cause My Church to become a builder, even as Rachel and Leah built up the families of Israel, and raised its households.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Yes, you shall know spiritual prosperity and My Renown shall be expressed among you, and your gate will be a place where the lineage of My Son shall be perpetuated and where My Ongoing blessings will be released upon your future generations.</I></div> <div> <I>......................................................</I></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="the_women_of_the_land_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>The Women of the Land</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> Lion & Lamb Ministries</div> <div> © Copyright Vera Cranwell</div> <div> 13 September 2005</div> <bR> <div> <B>I am raising up handmaids of insight who will see with My Eyes, who will see right from wrong, who will possess understanding in times of darkness and of complexity, who will bring forth My Light and My Truth, for they shall be executers of My Purposes and executors of My Will.</B></div> <bR> <div> They shall be daughters of perception who will see potential for good, and work towards it. </div> <bR> <div> For I shall call women by My Spirit, even those who are troubled and burdened with My Spirit. Yes, I will call those who are vexed about injustices, who are unafraid to speak out, and I shall cause them to voice their concerns before men of position and of power, for I am calling daughters who will recognize issues which necessitate action and addressing. </div> <bR> <div> I will raise up handmaidens of persuasion who will not keep silent, for their hearts, like Mary's, will be pierced. Like Pilate's wife, their spirits will be troubled with revelation. Like her, they shall be ones who will suffer in the night seasons and who will wrestle in darkness. </div> <bR> <div> Like Pilate's wife they shall be discerners who have insight into situations of seriousness and will understand the ramifications of such. </div> <div> I am raising up handmaids who will stand and call out from the very places where innocent blood is being shed, even who will call out from where the enemy's darts are being fired and they shall become bloodguilt preventers in the land. </div> <bR> <div> I shall place My Words of pertinent and relevant truth within the mouths of My Handmaidens and they will acknowledge within their hearts that it is a time to speak, for I will cause the voice of "Today" to rise within their spirits. </div> <bR> <div> Like Pilate's wife I shall place these My Prophetic Ones in the midst of unsettling, and from there they shall herald My Warnings even as Pilate's wife heralded a message of warning to her husband during a time of trial. </div> <div> In like manner shall I cause My Handmaidens to become trumpeters who will sound the alarm in high places. Yes, they shall be as early alarms sounding, for I will set them up as prophetic warners. </div> <bR> <div> I caused Pilate's wife to become a voice of significance at an appropriate time, even so will I cause My women to become voices of significance, of prayer, and of intercession and I will hear their voice. </div> <bR> <div> I shall place those who perceive Me, who see and hear Me in places of emergency and of urgency. </div> <div> Indeed, they shall be My National Affecters, permeating and promoting well-being and I will place them amongst those who do not know Me, even amongst those who resist My ways. </div> <bR> <div> I shall place My daughters amongst the troubled heart of the nation, even amongst those who, like Pilate, are needing to hear and to heed the words of wise counsel. </div> <bR> <div> The Lord says I am seeking women whose hearts are towards Me and towards their fellowmen, daughters who will be messengers of life, love and of hope, who will step into situations of challenge and be relievers of the nations' troubles. </div> <bR> <div> The Lord says, you are women who seek My Justice and My Truth, therefore, like Pilate's wife, I will set you amongst persons of rank, even amongst decision-makers and you shall affect the high places of the land.</div> <bR> <div> ......................................................</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="ministers_of_the_unborn_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Ministers of the Unborn</B></div> <div> Lion & Lamb Ministries</div> <div> © Copyright Vera Cranwell</div> <div> 5 August 2005</div> <bR> <div> <B>As you minister unto My babes and infants, I will cause you to stand in the field of Angels. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>As you minister to these, the least, you will minister unto Me. </B></div> <bR> <div> For the fields of My little ones are the thoroughfares of My ever-present Angels. Does not My Word declare that the Angels of My little ones behold the face of the Father in Heaven? </div> <div> Even so, I will anoint My servants who work in the fields of life, who watch over wombs of promise, guarding hidden ones. </div> <bR> <div> As you revere new beginnings, I will open the eyes of your understanding, even as I opened Jacob's at Bethel, and you, like Jacob, shall be aware of the activity of Angels. </div> <bR> <div> Indeed, as you tend My little ones, you, like Jacob, shall stand at the portal of Heaven, even in a place of access, infiltrated, permeated and impregnated with the glory of My Holy Ones. </div> <bR> <div> For I will raise up from amongst My young ones child-kings who will reign, knowing the authority of My Name and the power of My throne. </div> <bR> <div> Even as Jehosheba rescued and hid Joash, I would have you preserving future kings, covering them with prayer, hiding them from the powers of death and destruction. </div> <bR> <div> Like Jehosheba, I would have you shielding My little regal ones, even as she shielded Joash from the murderous rage and intent of Athaliah. </div> <bR> <div> Even as she placed him within the bedchamber and the temple, in like manner I will have babes and infants raised within the chambers of intimacy, even in the royal bed of kings. </div> <bR> <div> Like Jehosheba, I would have you protecting the royal seed of life, for I shall release the burden of intercession for My babes and young ones, and it shall affect the heavenly realms. 2 Kings 11:1-3.</div> <div> ........................................................</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="shaking_upon"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Shaking upon</B></div> <div> <B>New Zealand</B></div> <div> Lion & Lamb Ministries</div> <div> © Copyright Vera Cranwell</div> <div> 2 August 2005</div> <bR> <div> <B>I</B><B> se</B><B>nse the Lord saying, </B></div> <div> <B>The Lord will send Edom's shaking upon your land, New Zealand, upon your capital city, and upon your government. </B></div> <bR> <div> For He will shake them, even as He shook the high mindedness of Edom, spoken by the mouth of His servant, Obadiah. </div> <bR> <div> Powers within government who have aligned themselves with deeds of wickedness, who have collaborated with the powers of darkness, shall feel the finger of the Lord's rebuke and chastisement. For His Finger will uncover those who seek to "build high", and He will unveil brick towers of ambition whose tops vie for the heavens. </div> <bR> <div> Even so, He will send an unsettling and a discomforting upon those who have sought to "set theirs nests among the stars". </div> <bR> <div> For the enemy has reached for the high places of the land, but the Lord shall be exalted as His people lift His Name on high. </div> <bR> <div> Seats of pride shall know an abasement and a humbling from His Hand, even a loss of governance, as the Lord attends to strongholds of arrogance and of deception within the land. For the "unreachable" places of the land are not hidden from Him, neither are seats of hardness. </div> <bR> <div> For there will be an unseating, even an unceremonious unseating within Parliament, and the loss of seats shall be likened unto the toppling of an aerie from the lofty heights of a cliff face. For the Lord will cause His High Winds to blow, and that which appeared stable and permanent shall prove to be unstable and temporary as He shakes governmental nests of rule and brings them low. </div> <bR> <div> Indeed, the Lord shall remove those who sit in seats of comfort and of ease, even those who feel at home in the heights of power, for He shall challenge, even dash their securities. </div> <bR> <div> He will shake cosy nests, and nests of self-importance will fail, as the Lord causes their power to decline, as He brings smallness upon them. </div> <bR> <div> Indeed, some within the government of the land shall be likened unto Edom, whose power was once great, but they shall be reduced by the hand of the Lord, even as Edom was diminished by His Power in the days of old.</div> <div> ------------------------------------------------------</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="defenders_of_life"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Defenders of LIFE</B></div> <div> Lion & Lamb Ministries</div> <div> © Copyright Vera Cranwell                                        2 August 2005</div> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <B>Even as My servant, Elisabeth, recognized the unborn within Mary's womb, in like manner you are one who recognizes the unborn. </B></div> <bR> <div> For you, like Elisabeth, are one who praises life in the womb, considering it of precious worth. </div> <bR> <div> Like Elisabeth, you encourage and celebrate motherhood, and bless mothers-to-be, and honour the fruit of the womb. </div> <bR> <div> The Lord calls you a watcher of the womb, one who prays for the fruitfulness of others, watching over a generation yet to be born. </div> <bR> <div> You are one who esteems "in utero" life, understanding its destiny and purpose, for the unborn shall praise Me, even as John the Baptist leaped for joy in his mother's womb at the recognition of My Presence and Nearness. </div> <bR> <div> For I am the Alpha, the God of all beginnings, forming the unseen substance of babes in secret hidden places, numbering all their days. </div> <div> Yes, it is I, Who infuses the spirit within the bones of the womb of a woman with child. </div> <bR> <div> My Daughter, you are one who witnesses to life within others, even as Elisabeth bore witness to Mary's condition. And you, like Elisabeth, marvel at the miracle of life. </div> <div> Like My servant, Elisabeth, you rejoice with those who have been impregnated with life, with those who know conception and carry precious cargo. </div> <bR> <div> The Lord would liken you unto Elisabeth in the maturity of her latter years, secreted away, pregnant with life, and with His prophetic promises; building up and exhorting His Marys, even those who carry The word hidden within them. </div> <bR> <div> Even as Mary remained with Elisabeth until her last trimester, in like manner you seek to see life carried into its final stages of fulfilment, potential and development. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Luke 1:36-57. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Encouragement for Defenders of Life </B></div> <div> I am raising up intercessors, even hidden, watchful ones, who, like young Miriam will care for, watch over and pray for the welfare of mothers and babes. </div> <bR> <div> From secret places they shall stand guard over little ones who are in positions of destruction and in danger of harm, even as Miriam faithfully protected her brother, Moses. Like Miriam they shall be watchful for God's miraculous intervention. </div> <bR> <div> I will raise up intercessors with hearts like Miriam's, whose desire will be to see mothers restored to their offspring and infants to their mothers. I will give them words of advocacy and of wisdom and of saving at the right time. </div> <bR> <div> For I am raising up intercessors as life savers, who would seek to protect the sanctity of life. Yes, those whose spirits shall not bow nor buckle under the unrighteous laws and wicked decrees of the land, but who will seek to rescue babes from the mouth of death and destruction like the diligent </div> <bR> <div> Hebrew midwives. </div> <div> I will raise up intercessors with motherly instincts who will seek to protect the young and the vulnerable. </div> <div> I will cause intercessors to arise who will love the young, whose hearts will melt for My babes, even as Pharaoh's daughter loved Moses and allowed him to move and to melt her heart with pity and compassion. </div> <bR> <div> Yes, I will raise up deliverers like Pharaoh's daughter, even rescuers from unexpected sources and unusual places; for I am raising up unlikely rescuers from the world's system, from the high places of the land, even from within the very structures where the lawmakers reside, from where unrighteousness is decreed. </div> <bR> <div> Like Pharaoh's daughter, I will use those not yet within My Kingdom, yes, even those who do not yet know Me shall be used of Me, becoming the vessels and instruments of My deliverance, and I will place My irony within the house of Pharaoh, and I shall cause the wrath of man to serve and to praise Me. </div> <bR> <div> Even as I placed Pharaoh's daughter at the waters of the river, even so will I place My snatchers in appropriate places at suitable moments, and I shall lengthen their arms and strengthen their grips upon My little ones, even upon My babes of destiny. </div> <bR> <div> I will raise up intercessors who shall be women of resistance, who will fight for and defend the weakest, the least, and those who have no voice, nor choice. </div> <div> I will raise up women of faith, like Moses' mother, who shall hide babes of national destiny, protect them and be a shield to My little ones.</div> <div> .......................................................</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="word_for_leaders_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Word for Leaders, </B></div> <div> <B>New Zealand</B></div> <div> Lion & Lamb Ministries</div> <div> © Copyright Vera Cranwell                                        22 January 2005</div> <bR> <div> <B>I will send strong winds to this nation which shall cause mighty trees even My leaders to bend in the direction of My Spirit as they stand tall and strong, rooted and grounded in Me.</B></div> <bR> <div> Yes, there will be a uniformity of direction for I shall bring it to pass, even as trees sway in one direction as the wind blows and passes through them.</div> <bR> <div> I will stir My leaders like mighty trees and they shall incline themselves to Me and there shall be a bending and a leaning unto Me.</div> <bR> <div> I shall bring a bending even as I brought about the bending of Egypt’s knee before Joseph in the days of Pharoah’s rule.</div> <bR> <div> I shall cause My trees to be attentive to the strength of My Wind and they shall make way for Me.</div> <bR> <div> My Wind shall bring a conformity, even a conformity to My nature and likeness.</div> <bR> <div> The winds shall not harm My trees but shall cause the flexibility of yieldedness to arise, even a </div> <div> co-operation with Me.  </div> <bR> <div> Genesis 41 v 43 - NASV.</div> <bR> <div> ----------------------------------------------------</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="to_the_church_of_aotearoa_new_zealand"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>To the Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand:</B></div> <div> Lion & Lamb Ministries </div> <div> © Copyright Vera Cranwell</div> <div> Sunday 2 January 2005</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.gospel.org.nz/coming.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.gospel.org.nz/coming.htm"><U><B>(Endorsed by Rodney Francis</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.gospel.org.nz/coming.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.gospel.org.nz/coming.htm"><U><B>The Gospel Faith Messenger)</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>New Zealand be not deceived; the battle lines are drawn and there is war at your gate and spiritual blindness abounds.</B></div> <bR> <div> For the Lord would liken the Church of New Zealand unto Lot standing at the </div> <div> gate of Sodom and the nation unto Lot's house.</div> <bR> <div> The house of Lot was assaulted by the violent threatening of the sodomites, </div> <div> even so, the enemy's rage and frenzy is manifesting at your door.</div> <bR> <div> Vying for points of entry and easy access, his attacks have been exerted </div> <div> upon your door even with a forceful menace as he has sought to break down your door and to harm those within your house.</div> <bR> <div> Nevertheless the Lord would say unto you New Zealand, I AM the door of your </div> <div> nation, it is against the Lord's anointed that the peoples rage.</div> <bR> <div> The Sodomites called My servant Lot one who played the judge - in like </div> <div> manner does the voice of your accuser echo throughout your land today.</div> <bR> <div> The Lord would say that He has stationed His Angels at the door of your nation at the cries and intercessions of His people, even as He stationed them at Lot's house.</div> <bR> <div> My Church, like Lot, I have called you with the call of an overcoming elder </div> <div> - yet you , like him , find yourself powerless and ineffective. Impoverished, you sit robbed of your power and potential for good at </div> <div> Sodom's gate. Nevertheless the Lord would say unto His Church,``You are My servant, My righteous Lot.''</div> <bR> <div> I have seen your angst and beheld your daily vexation and your great </div> <div> distress at the lawless deeds of others.</div> <bR> <div> Like righteous Lot, you are troubled within at the state of your nation and </div> <div> its moral decline.</div> <bR> <div> The Lord would call His Church His rescued one, for you have been redeemed by the Father of faith, even as Abraham retrieved Lot from the hand of his foes.</div> <bR> <div> You like him, were once caught in strife, captured by the enemy and taken captive by his will, but I cared for you and lovingly brought you back to </div> <div> Myself.</div> <bR> <div> I am your rescuing Abraham, therefore I would have you love, care for and </div> <div> rescue others, for I will give you the heart of a retriever.</div> <bR> <div> My servant Lot chose to dwell in Sodom, even so have I chosen to place you in a lush, well-watered, fertile land even like unto the garden of the </div> <div> Lord, even the land of "Godzone.''</div> <bR> <div> Dissatisfaction, however, has arisen within you and you have distanced </div> <div> yourself from Me.</div> <bR> <div> Erring, you have walked away and strayed from the Father of faith, even as Lot separated himself from Abraham and you have journeyed in wrong paths.</div> <bR> <div> The Lord says, "New Zealand, you have lost your direction.''</div> <bR> <div> My Church, I have placed the power of choice in your hand and through </div> <div> incorrect decisions you have moved to the wrong place. Indeed, you have </div> <div> made choices based upon your greed, shallowness and short sightedness.</div> <div> You, like Lot, have imagined that the grass was greener on the other side, </div> <div> but did not realize that Sodom was the land of the enemy.</div> <bR> <div> You have been led astray through your lack of discernment, and through the </div> <div> seduction of your eyes, for you have chosen to be led by outward </div> <div> appearances, by what appears to be good and pleasant and even beneficial to the detriment of your nation's well being.</div> <bR> <div> Lot erred through the lust of his eyes - in like manner you have discovered </div> <div> the trickery of appearance and of face value.</div> <bR> <div> My Church, you, like Lot, have been rendered largely ineffective through </div> <div> your responses to Me, even as Lot was rendered ineffective through his </div> <div> attitude and belated responses to Me and My rescuing Angels, for I saw his </div> <div> arrogance, in thinking that he knew better than My Angels. His pride of </div> <div> heart manifested before Me as he sought to counsel My Angels and to </div> <div> redirect His God! </div> <div> Through procrastination and fear-bound reasoning he delayed My Angels!</div> <bR> <div> Church of Aotearoa, I would not have you acting like Lot, nor hindering My </div> <div> Angelic ones from working the works of God. I would not have you lingering </div> <div> in the wrong place needing to be convinced and persuaded to move on, like Lot, neither would I have you trying My mercy.</div> <bR> <div> Lot's disobedience manifested before My Angels - even so your disobedience </div> <div> has manifested before Me, but I would have you hear the voice of My </div> <div> Messenger instead, and not remain in the lowness of your valley lest you </div> <div> perish and disaster overtake you.</div> <bR> <div> I would have you arise, My Church, to the challenge - therefore reach out </div> <div> to Me and attain to the high call of God which is upon you, for I have </div> <div> called you Church, New Zealand, to possess the high places of the land, </div> <div> even to be a receiver and a giver of My light and revelation and a carrier </div> <div> of My governmental authority.</div> <bR> <div> I am the maintainer of your lot. Indeed, I have chosen your lot and your </div> <div> cup, even your inheritance to fall in pleasant places; therefore do not</div> <div> choose an inferior way like Lot.</div> <bR> <div> The Lord says, "Do not be satisfied with the brass, but go for the gold!''</div> <bR> <div> Church of New Zealand, choose the way of gold and become a land of faith </div> <div> and of My glory.</div> <bR> <div> My people, do not be complacent, nor satisfied with little from Me, but </div> <div> seek Me to possess more of Me - for I have a large portion prepared for </div> <div> you.</div> <bR> <div> Church of Aotearoa, your loss of voice to the nation has been a judgment, </div> <div> even a penalty from My hand, which you have endured for your</div> <div> compromise.</div> <bR> <div> Lot's voice became a mere joke as he spoke to his sons-in-law, even so has </div> <div> your voice become before those who do not know Me. You have yet a little voice, but a weakened one at that, a voice not heard  nor heeded. Like Lot, you have suffered loss of influence, your cutting edge and your ability to permeate your society.</div> <bR> <div> The Lord says, "Remember Lot's wife.''</div> <bR> <div> Love not the world, nor join your affections to it, lest you become a </div> <div> pillar of salt with its lost savour, fit only to be trodden underfoot, causing your land to become sterile and non-productive before Me by your </div> <div> own hand and actions.</div> <bR> <div> My Church, even though, you, like Lot, have tasted of My wine, nevertheless </div> <div> you have chosen to conceive in darkness and have partaken of shameful acts in hidden places, away from My light, but now, like a drunken man rousing himself from his stupor, you have awakened to see the horror of your circumstances and the shame of your nakedness. Indeed you have awakened to a land of promiscuity and of prevailingimmorality and of decline, seeing the evidence of your sins before you, even your "Moabs'' and your "Ammons.''</div> <bR> <div> Like Lot, you have chosen that which is unnatural, even unnatural ways to </div> <div> bring forth and to produce life and have borne children of incest, even that which is borne out of wrong relationships, choices and desires.</div> <bR> <div> My Church, do not partake of Lot's mixture, for I would not have My virgin </div> <div> Bride be put at risk, even as Lot placed his virgin daughters at risk before the Sodomites.</div> <bR> <div> Like sleeping Lot, overcome by the darkness of the night, you have been </div> <div> ignorant of your true state and condition, even unaware of the robbing of your seed - neither have you sensed life being stolen from your Body.</div> <bR> <div> Robbing daughters, even those of your own household, have removed My life </div> <div> from you by secrecy and by stealth.</div> <bR> <div> Church of New Zealand, turn to Me again with repentance and with weeping, and allow Me to rescue, love and care for you once more, for I will replace the seed of life within you, which has been snatched from you by the hand of the enemy as you have slumbered. Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty.</div> <bR> <div> Awake, awake My sleeping One whilst it is yet day, before it is too late, </div> <div> for the hour comes when the night will fall and no man shall work.</div> <bR> <div> Genesis 19:1-38, </div> <div> Genesis 13:8-13, 2 </div> <div> Peter 2:4-10</div> <bR> <div> --------------------------------------------------</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="new_zealand__"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>New Zealand: </B></div> <div> <B>The Policy Maker</B></div> <div> Lion & Lamb Ministries </div> <div> © Copyright Vera Cranwell 2 January 2005</div> <bR> <div> <B>New Zealand, you are living like Rehoboam, surrounded by his unwise and ill advised policy makers; your Church, like the Israel of his day.</B></div> <bR> <div> Rehoboam was crowned in Shechem, even so I have called your nation's leaders to be a `` Shechem , '' even a shoulder of authority, an alleviator to the burdened whilst carrying the gravity and weight of responsibility.</div> <bR> <div> Like Israel, the nation of New Zealand has been carried through difficult </div> <div> and trying times even as the people of Rehoboam's day were accustomed to a hard yoke.</div> <bR> <div> Like Israel approaching King Rehoboam, pleading for assistance, reasoning for a better way and for righteous laws, have the Lord's people approached their leaders.</div> <bR> <div> With hopeful hearts, Israel stated their case, requesting relief from their </div> <div> yoke and a lightening of their load. In like manner has the nation looked to </div> <div> its leaders.</div> <bR> <div> Even so. the Lord has brought New Zealand into ``the third day '' of </div> <div> Rehoboam's policy making.</div> <bR> <div> Like King Rehoboam, the leaders of Aotearoa have sought to push aside ``the third day,'' ignoring its potential for good and its ability to implement </div> <div> change and to bring deliverance and blessing to the land.</div> <bR> <div> New Zealand, you, like Rehoboam, stand at a pivotal place, even at a crucial time of decision making.</div> <bR> <div> The Lord would not have you neglecting the day of opportunity, but entering </div> <div> ``the third day'' of His favour and of His Wisdom instead.</div> <bR> <div> The Lord says,``Aotearoa, choose wisely. Be not like Rehoboam who, though birthed upon the foundation of faith and nurtured upon the belief of his </div> <div> forefathers, did not heed nor value the voice of Wisdom, nor choose to be </div> <div> intimately acquainted with it.''</div> <bR> <div> The Lord says,``Do not be like Rehoboam disregarding the voice of the elders of previous generations. Do not ignore the faithfulness of the founding </div> <div> Fathers of your nation nor their godly Wisdom. Do not forsake, but honour </div> <div> your forefathers instead. Do not cease to rise up with acknowledgment before </div> <div> them within your heart, for He would have you respect your Fathers' loins </div> <div> and the life they birthed and gifted to your nation.''</div> <bR> <div> The policy makers' actions have not been in accordance with the Father's </div> <div> loins, neither have they produced that which He has required, but have </div> <div> helped strenghten the load of weightiness meted out to His people instead!</div> <bR> <div> Like Rehoboam, they have rejected and despised the Spirit of Counsel and of Wisdom, having cast His Spirit behind their backs.</div> <bR> <div> Aotearoa, your policy makers are like Rehoboam, a ruling king, choosing only to hear the voice of familiarity and that of its own generation along with </div> <div> the popularity of its trends, ever-changing opinions, unstable as water.</div> <bR> <div> Like Rehoboam, you have sought out foolishness and searched out folly and </div> <div> the increase of your unrighteousness has become a whip of sorrow, a scourge of wickedness, even a lashing whip of scorpions.</div> <bR> <div> New Zealand, your rulers have responded with the harshness of Rehoboam's reply.</div> <bR> <div> Like him, they have brought the pain of chastisement to the nation, continuing in their stubborn resolve, irrespective of public outcry and opinion. Nevertheless, even as the Lord outworked His divine purpose and </div> <div> plan within the nation of Israel in Rehoboam's reign even so am I working </div> <div> within your land today.</div> <bR> <div> Disillusioned, the people of Rehoboam's day were saddened, their hopes deferred, nevertheless the Lord weaved His prophetic promises through the fabric of their society even through the tapestry of their nationhood for He </div> <div> is the Master Weaver, knowing all the threads, colours, patterns and designs </div> <div> for the Cross of the warp and of the woof are His.</div> <bR> <div> It is He who tidies the loose threads, cutting loose and removing them, </div> <div> disregarding the useless ones.</div> <bR> <div> The seeds of discord and of division were sown in Rehoboam's reign, even so, seeds of division and of discord have been sown into the soil of your </div> <div> nation's seed-bed.</div> <bR> <div> New Zealand, do not be surprised at the forced labour policies of Rehoboam </div> <div> for they are as unacceptable to the Lord as Adoram was to Israel.</div> <bR> <div> Unwise decisions placed Israel in jeopardy, inviting civil unrest and </div> <div> encouraging ciivil war. In like manner, the insensitivity of incorrect decisions have placed your country in a similar position of hazard today.</div> <bR> <div> Death visited Adoram, even so have unsound decisions from high places </div> <div> attracted and welcomed death's stranglehold over your nation.</div> <bR> <div> The people of Israel rejected Adoram, the enforcer of Rehoboam's ill advised </div> <div> policies, in like manner so have I.</div> <bR> <div> 1 Kings 12 v 1 - 24.</div> <bR> <div> -------------------------------------------------</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="the_crier_s_fountain_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>The Crier's fountain: </B></div> <div> <B>a living epistle.</B></div> <div> Lion and Lamb Ministries  </div> <div> © Copyright Vera Cranwell<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="arial" > 21 December 2004</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dear interceeding one,</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I am acquainted with your intimate yearnings for Me, the intensity of your heart's desire and your innermost thoughts. I see the tears shed in secret and the deep groaning within.</B></div> <bR> <div> In response to your cries My thirsty one, I will birth springs that refresh </div> <div> and they shall be a welcoming sight and a token of My Presence and of My </div> <div> Care.</div> <bR> <div> For I will fill you with the waters of My Word and of My Spirit and still </div> <div> your fears in time of need even as I stilled and quieted Samson's heart and </div> <div> delivered him from the fear of death's demise.</div> <bR> <div> Even so My intercessor, I will deliver you and relieve you of your dryness, </div> <div> for I shall touch the aching hollow of the depths inside you, even the place </div> <div> within which yearns, even pines for Me.</div> <bR> <div> No longer shall there be a void within, for I will fill you with Myself and </div> <div> with My living waters, and they shall flow from your inner being, for I know </div> <div> how to refresh and satisfy My weary, battle-fatigued Samsons, even My </div> <div> warfaring ones.</div> <bR> <div> As you reach out and touch Me with your strong supplications, I will reveal </div> <div> Myself to you, even as the fountain of water manifested itself miraculously </div> <div> before My servant Samson.</div> <bR> <div> I remind you, does not My Word declare that I will manifest Myself to those who love Me ?</div> <bR> <div> As the waters broke forth from the depths, Samson beheld My supernatural works and drank from the spring of miracles, therefore do not limit Me.</div> <bR> <div> Believe Me, for I am able to raise up many fountains with supernatural </div> <div> foundations.</div> <bR> <div> As Samson interceeded, the heavens and the earth responded. In like manner, as you offer``Samson prayers'' upon the altar of your life, I will unstop </div> <div> hidden springs and release sealed fountains with the touch of My hand.</div> <bR> <div> Samson beheld a new happening as I visited Lehi with My life giving waters, </div> <div> even so am I able to visit and to awaken arid places, even places which have </div> <div> not previously responded to Me.</div> <bR> <div> You, like Samson, will be able to recognise My hand, for when I move I will come suddenly, bringing change and transformation.</div> <bR> <div> Samson's request was genuine like yours My intercessor, therefore I will be </div> <div> unto you that cool, cleansing, gushing fount, even that refreshing fount </div> <div> born of God.</div> <bR> <div> Drink deeply, imbibe of Me My praying one, for I am that thirst quenching </div> <div> spring in which you delight.</div> <bR> <div> Life giving restorative waters issued from the hollow place, even so shall </div> <div> My Lehis know reviving waters and the quickening of My Spirit and My people </div> <div> shall rejoice in heaven-answered prayer as Samson rejoiced in his.</div> <bR> <div> Keep persevering in the heat of battle My faithful one, keep trusting Me, </div> <div> for much is at stake, the Kingdom is at hand and the rewards are very great.</div> <bR> <div> Yours faithfully,</div> <bR> <div> The God of Israel.</div> <bR> <div> Judges 15 v 17 - 19, John 14 v 21.</div> <bR> <div> --------------------------------------------------</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="relinquishment_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Relinquishment: </B></div> <div> <B>a living epistle</B></div> <div> Lion &  Lamb Ministries</div> <div> © Copyright Vera Cranwell                                        18 December 2004</div> <bR> <div> <B>Dear Obed-edom,</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>What do you have in your house ? Is it not the Ark of My Presence, </B></div> <div> <B>the Ark of My Glory and of My Blessing ?</B></div> <bR> <div> Obed-edom, I want you to yield the Ark to Me, open the doors of your house </div> <div> and bring it out, for you must begin to share it with others.</div> <bR> <div> As you are aware, I am the Ark's lawful owner and you must return it to Me </div> <div> for it is now time to put Me in the proper place, in the tent prepared for Me at Jerusalem.</div> <bR> <div> Obed-edom, you have been a faithful guardian of My Glory and yours has been a privileged household.</div> <bR> <div> You are one with the heart of a servant, therefore My Ark has been pleased </div> <div> to dwell with such a one as yourself, but Obed-edom, don't keep Me all to </div> <div> yourself.</div> <bR> <div> I am desiring you to bring out the priceless treasure hidden within for alll </div> <div> to see.</div> <bR> <div> The riches of My Presence and of My Glory have been secreted away, therefore surrender your treasure unto Me, it will be used for the benefit of all.</div> <bR> <div> Obed-edom, it is a new day for the Ark of My Glory. It is needing to be </div> <div> displayed and manifested before all.</div> <bR> <div> I am preparing a new way for My Ark.</div> <bR> <div> Your worship and adoration has been in private in days gone by, but now it </div> <div> must be placed into the public arena.</div> <bR> <div> Do not hold back, for a private place can become an idol if you are not </div> <div> willing to move with Me when I say,``Move with My Ark.''</div> <bR> <div> Obed=edom, you and your family have had the Ark of My Glory all to </div> <div> yourselves. It has enriched your lives and you have been greatly blest, but </div> <div> you cannot keep Me nor My blessings all to yourselves. You cannot be a </div> <div> hoarder of My Glory.</div> <bR> <div> Both the private and public sector need to be blessed. They are needing to </div> <div> see My Glory displayed.</div> <bR> <div> Obed-edom, you and your house have the``goods,'' come now, share it with </div> <div> God's people.</div> <bR> <div> You have known what it is to be shut in with Me, closeted and hidden away, </div> <div> enjoying My Presence, but now what you possess will be revealed.</div> <bR> <div> My Glory had not been sought throughout the reign of Saul, but now My people are desiring it, they have need of it and you must not deny them.</div> <bR> <div> My Glory must now journey to the city of David with gladness.</div> <bR> <div> My priests are now willing to carry the Ark upon their own shoulders and </div> <div> make it their personal responsibility and prority.</div> <bR> <div> They are now willing to carry it according to My prescribed manner and original plan and not upon a cart!</div> <bR> <div> Life came to you and to your household from the Ark of My Presence as you </div> <div> came to respect and revere Me and not treat Me with the familiarity of Uzzah.</div> <bR> <div> Abinadab the Levite also had to surrender the Ark of My Presence after </div> <div> twenty years and Eleazar his son had to relinquish his watch as keeper of </div> <div> the Glory.</div> <bR> <div> Obed-edom, you are not the only one. My favour has rested upon you, even as it did upon Abinadab.</div> <bR> <div> Both your houses have been houses of respect and of service to Me, but now </div> <div> it is time for both My Son and His radiant Glory to be manifested.</div> <bR> <div> Yours faithfully,</div> <bR> <div> The God of Israel.</div> <bR> <div> 1 Samuel 7 v 1 - 2, 2 Samuel 6 v 1 - 12, 1 Chronicles 13 v 1 - 14, 2 </div> <div> Chronicles 1 v 4.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#330099 WIDTH="3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="21076" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#EEEEEE WIDTH="245"><bR> <div>  <A NAME="gaza"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>GAZA</B></FONT></div> <div> Lion & Lamb Ministries</div> <div> © Copyright Vera Cranwell</div> <div> 24 August 2005</div> <bR> <div> <B>Gaza, hear the Word of the Lord. For the Lord will turn your darkest hour, even your midnight hour into an hour of great victory and of deliverance.</B></div> <bR> <div> The midnight hour, with its wrenching, division and tearing of heart is upon you. Yet the Lord would speak a double portion of victory over you. </div> <div> For those who stand in the gates of Gaza shall recognise a shift in the </div> <div> heavenlies, even a change of spiritual climate as you intercede, cry out </div> <div> to Me, and seek My face.</div> <bR> <div> Even as Samson, the man of strength, uprooted and shifted the gates of </div> <div> Gaza, and positioned them in a higher place, even so shall Gaza know a  </div> <div> repositioning, a change, even a turning around, which shall be evidenced </div> <div> upon the earth. For I will place My Uprooters amongst you, men and women of strength, My princely wrestlers who will wage war with the Spirit of Might, who will know My burden, carry it and release its weight.</div> <bR> <div> Even as My servant, Samson, laid Gaza's doors and posts upon his body and carried them to the top of the hill, even so the Lord would say unto you, </div> <div> "People of Gaza, you are not alone; for many within My Body are co-labourers with you at this time,  helping you with your burden; for it is to be carried upon the shoulders of authority and of much strength."</div> <bR> <div> My Spirit is at work in the gates of your city, and you will know a divine exchange, a freeing from the enemy's hand, even as Samson took the gate of </div> <div> Gaza from the power of the enemy, and freed it from the Philistine's usurping hand.</div> <bR> <div> The battle is at your door and the spirit of witchcraft has manifested at </div> <div> your gate and the robber has lain in wait therein.</div> <bR> <div> Even as Samon's power overcame the enemy's stronghold over Gaza, so shall </div> <div> My Anointing yet again break his yoke and nullify his plots.</div> <bR> <div> Intents of destruction have come against you, My People, but the Lord </div> <div> would say unto you, I will yet further expose the workings of the enemy, </div> <div> and unveil his plans and hiding places by removing the covering of darkness with My Light.</div> <bR> <div> The Lord says the enemy has sought to defeat and blind you, to rob you of </div> <div> your liberty and anointing, even as the Philistines blinded and bound Samson with fetters of bronze and placed him in the prison of Gaza.</div> <bR> <div> But the Lord would say unto you, "No prison house shall prevail over you!" </div> <div> For My Spirit frees and releases prisoners, and My Anointing shall arise </div> <div> out of your prison houses, even as it arose upon Samson the second time, </div> <div> and out of the places of seeming defeat, you, like Samson, shall arise.</div> <bR> <div> Gaza, you shall be a city of light, even a city set upon a hill. You shall once more be Judah's inheritance and the prevailing roar of Judah's Lion </div> <div> shall resound from you yet again.</div> <bR> <div> ........................................................</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="denmark_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#330099" FACE="Arial" ><B>Denmark</B></FONT></div> <div> Lion &  Lamb Ministries</div> <div> © Copyright Vera Cranwell </div> <div> 8 December 2004</div> <bR> <div> <B>Daniel the Lord's servant was a man protected in the den of lions, marked and overshadowed by the Father's hand.</B></div> <bR> <div> Even so, the Lord has engraven your land upon His hand and has``Denmarked'' your nation. A loin's portion is reserved for you and the royal seal of Judah's line is imprinted upon you for He has called you to be lion-hearted and to possess a lion's share of the prey.</div> <bR> <div> Which shall you choose ? A den of lions or a den of iniquity ?</div> <bR> <div> The lions in Daniel's den were touched by the Angel, even so will a fresh touch of His Spirit rest upon His prophetic ones, His lions, both young and old and will cause them to feed no longer upon that which is carnal and fleshly. Spiritual appetites will be stimulated to feed and feast upon Him. He will visit with the``Isaiah'' touch and the mouths of His roaring ones shall be touched with His fire and with bold life giving words.</div> <bR> <div> The Lord will raise up praying kings with the spirit of Darius who will </div> <div> interceed for righteousness to prevail in the land and Hiis Angels shall </div> <div> help still the voice of the enemy's roar in dens of iniquity and prisons of </div> <div> darkness.</div> <bR> <div> Sleepless kings, night watchers who pray with the fasting of anguished </div> <div> concern and with the wrestling of Darius shall cause the Lord to intervene in the land and enable the attacks of the enemy to be held in check.</div> <bR> <div> The arising of powerful intercessors of intensity shall help silence the </div> <div> tongues of accusation raised against His Church, the Daniel of His wisdom </div> <div> and understanding.</div> <bR> <div> Kings, even those seated in places of government and in the high places of </div> <div> the land shall, like Darius, acknowledge the hand of the Lord working behind the scenes in times of crises and urgency. They will respond to answered prayer like Darius rejoiced at the realization of his heart's cry and fervent desire.</div> <bR> <div> Dens of sin and iniquity in the land shall feel the ``Daniel effect,'' even </div> <div> that of good overcoming evil, for the Lord will not give His Darling over to </div> <div> the lions nor His Beloved to the horns of the wild oxen.</div> <bR> <div> Kings who closet and shut themselves in with the Lord during seasons of darkness will awaken, like Darius to good news and witness the miracles of the Lord's supernatural deliverances.</div> <bR> <div> The Lord will hear the cries of distressed kings who interceed with sorrow during night seasons. Those who seek His face in such manner will receive the mind of the Deliverer for the mind of Christ shall be revealed to them. Like Darius, they shall rejoice as they see the dawning of a new day and the breaking forth of His light.</div> <bR> <div> The Angel of the Lord visited Daniel in the night, even so shall the night </div> <div> of your deep tribulation become the hour of your visitation.</div> <bR> <div> The Lord will enable His Daniels to experience millennial peace in the midst of great trouble and prophetic revelation, the understanding of Issachar's times and seasons will be released in dens of warfare as treasures of darkness.</div> <bR> <div> Others shall look to your nation to see whether the lions have prevailed in your land and many shall confess and acknowledge that the Lord and His Angels do indeed conquer the lions of death and destruction.</div> <bR> <div> The Lord will cause your accusers to be overcome even as Daniel's accusers were overcome by their own devices. The enemy will be cast down in the places of the Lord's appointment even as Daniel's accusers and their families were cast down into the den and overtaken by the lions.</div> <bR> <div> Decrees, prophetic decrees shall be heralded by you to the nations for you shall be a land of heralds. Indeed, His decrees shall cause a trembling near and far and the godly fear of the Lord to arise.</div> <bR> <div> You will be sounders of His peace, shouters of His praises, displayers of </div> <div> His signs and wonders.</div> <bR> <div> The Lord will cause His Daniels to prosper in the land and stone-sealed dens shall not hinder His purpose nor withstand His plans for no weapon fashioned shall prosper.</div> <bR> <div> Daniel Chapter 6  v 1- 28.</div> <bR> <div> ----------------------------------------------</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="beslan"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Beslan</B></div> <div> Lion & Lamb Ministries </div> <div> © Copyright Vera Cranwell</div> <div> 28 November 2004</div> <bR> <div> <B>BESLAN: a love letter</B></div> <bR> <div> Beslan, the Lord would liken you unto Rachel of old weeping for her </div> <div> children, for they are gone.</div> <bR> <div> The Lord has seen your bitter tears and has heard your cries, for you, like Rachel, have known the depths of sadness, grief and loss and have borne sons and daughters of sorrow.</div> <bR> <div> Even as Jacob prophesied by the Spirit and changed his son's name, in like manner, the Lord will change your name from a Benoni to a  Benjamin and you shall bring forth ones who will be known and named by their Father, even ones who will delight themselves in the favour and fellowship of the Father's right hand.</div> <bR> <div> Beslan, think not that the Lord has abandoned you nor distanced Himself from you, for He is near, even as Jacob drew near and comforted his wife in her time of distress.</div> <bR> <div> Say not that the Lord is unmoved at your plight for He is a sharer of your </div> <div> sufferings and sorrows even as Jacob tasted and partook of his beloved </div> <div> Rachel's sorrow.</div> <bR> <div> Take heart Beslan, be courageous, for you shall be a memorial which shall not be forgotten.</div> <bR> <div> Even as the Lord's servant Jacob erected a memorial pillar over Rachel's grave, even so, the Lord will raise up pillars of overcoming from this place and death's sting shall be lost and swallowed up through the power of His victory.</div> <bR> <div> Benjamins, even sons and daughters of the Cross shall arise from your dust, possessing five-fold portions of the Spirit and there shall be a seven-fold restoration of the generational robbing which you have endured for the Lord is a restorer of the ruins of the generations.</div> <bR> <div> Even though the Dove's mourning has echoed through your ashes, yet shall the healing beauty of the Son of God shine forth.</div> <bR> <div> Yes, even the very waters of the Word and of the Spirit which the enemy has sought to withhold, even deny you, shall be released and they will satisfy the thirst of many.</div> <bR> <div> Rachel's womb brought forth the joy of new birth amidst  tragedy, even so, </div> <div> Beslan, shall new beginnings arise from the womb of your night's sorrow. </div> <div> Take heart.</div> <bR> <div> Genesis 35 v 16 - 20, </div> <div> Matthew 2 v 16 - 18, </div> <div> Jeremiah 31 v 15 - 17, </div> <div> Isaiah 58 v 12.</div> <bR> <div> -----------------------------------------------</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>