Glimmer of Faith

April 2020 In the last few years the Lord has spoken to me from a place of Isaiah 60. In my younger years I would look at the first line,“Arise, shine; For your light has come!” But I would quickly read over verse two that states; “For behold, deep darkness shall cover the earth.”

As He was speaking to me about Isaiah 60 I heard, “Will I find faith on the face of the earth?” I saw in a vision a people so gripped with fear they couldn’t take their eyes off the darkness as if staring at it would somehow keep the darkness from harming them. I heard,"What you behold will fill you.” I then saw a people straining, believing that there WAS a light somewhere in that deep darkness. When they saw a glimmer, they began to declare that which they were seeing. As they came into agreement with the Fathers heart and purpose the Glory of the Lord rested on them placing His presence and the Favor of God upon them.

I heard, “I have come to restore ALL things.” In a vision I saw the garden and heard the serpent saying “Did God REALLY say?” I realized the battle at the end will be the same as it was in the beginning. Did God really say, and will there be any believing for the light of Gods promise in the midst of deep darkness? John1:5, “And the light (which is Jesus) shines in the darkness and the darkness CANNOT overcome it.”

The Lord showed me Isaiah 60 was beginning to manifest. He is teaching His bride to look for the glimmer of light in the midst of the darkness and to give language and expression to the redemptive purposes that lives in the Father’s heart. The Lord showed me one of the reasons Jesus is called “the word of God in the flesh” was He gave language and expression to the redemptive purposes that have dwelt in the Fathers heart since the beginning of time. I believe in the end, the Church will manifest the ministry of Jesus declaring the light of the Lord and the darkness will not overcome Her. She will become His bride walking side by side with Him. Maybe even leaning on Her beloved as she emerges from the wilderness.

In the end as it was in the beginning, “did God really say” will be the battle. It will be a battle of identity, promise, and purpose. Which tree will feed you in your daily life and sustain you in the battle? The tree of knowledge or the Tree of Life?

Jesus declared John 6, “I am the bread that comes down from heaven.” Matthew 5, “Blessed are those that hunger and thirst for they shall be filled.” Jesus was saying those that are aware of their inability to manufacture their own righteousness have realized they need someone, something outside of themselves to sustain them. They hunger for something beyond themselves. Those that hunger and thirst realize that not eating spiritually will cause them to weaken. They will become aware of their own weakness and brokenness and their inability to fix themselves but thanks be to God, He gives us the victory through our Lord Christ Jesus!

In our lives we make measurements and assessments as to our strength and our weaknesses. I am strong in this area, just ok in this area, but I broken in this area. Joel 3 says “Let the weak say I am strong. A fountain will flow out of the Lords house and will water the valley of acacias.” The valley is the low place of brokenness and weakness. In Exodus 25, he made an ark of acacia wood. A fountain watering those who will be a tabernacle of His presence and an ark to carry His glory. Oh my, THANKS BE TO GOD!

For those that are broken, weak and filled with fear, Gods presence will feed them and sustain them, causing the broke and weak to display His glory.

In a vision I once saw two men, both broken and cracked. One man was putting duct tape over his wounds in shame, covering them up, the other stood there hopeless, declaring his despair over his brokenness. I saw the Lord come and stand inside both of them, healing them both. I heard, “Christ in you the hope of glory.” The one declaring his brokenness was being filled with the light of the Lord. The light began shining out for all to see Gods glory through his healing and grace to live his life for God. The Lord spoke to me, “Ministry is NOT what you do for God, ministry is testifying about what God has done for us.” We overcome the enemy by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our TESTIMONY. Remember you are the clay and He is the potter. You can’t transform yourself but you can trust Him to reshape you for His purposes. Trust in Him, rest in Him. In a time of uncertainty there is no safer place to be than in the hands of the Master potter who is shaping you to fulfill that which he created you for. Trust Him to reshape you, to rename you with new identity. A purpose that is of yourself is impossible, but with Him will become your new reality.

Having a construction background, when trying to “bond” two surfaces, in masonry you want the surface to be uneven, or roughed up, grooves are best. The bonding agent can FILL THE LOW PLACES causing the two to come together and the low places making it difficult to separate the two. He comes as a Good Shepherd to seek us out and to rescue us. He comes not to judge us but to heal us of our wounds. He does not measure us as some of our earthly fathers might have. Psalms 34, “He delivered me from ALL my fears.” He draws near to the broken hearted, a powerful word in these times.

When Joel said let the weak say I am strong, he is saying the Lord will inhabit and dwell in your low places, your valleys, your place of fear. Let His spirit of Truth manifest and reveal the truth of His loving kindness and His ability to deliver us from ALL things we fear. It’s His strength that manifests through His grace allowing us to become and do things of ourselves that is impossible. He will overtake our valleys, places of weakness and fear.

In 2 Samuel 5:20, the valley of Rephaim was renamed to Baal Perazim which means, the God of the breakthrough. It is renamed because God met David in a valley, a low place of uncertainty and established His meaning. He established Gods throne and thereby His authority in a geographical region. In renaming it, it was declaring ownership over it, giving it a NEW NAME.

He will inhabit our low places, rename it and manifest His truth and purpose for a person or a geographical region. Sound familiar? In Isaiah 62 and Revelation 2, the Lord speaks of giving us a new name, a new identity, an overcoming spirit. Let the weak say I am strong, let the fearful say I am filled with courage. The Lord said to Joshua, “be strong and be of courage.” God had transitioned Israel from slaves and wonderers to overcomers who possessed the geographical region God had promised. What is your geographical region of promise to possess?

This transition began with a Passover in the midst of plagues. Many of you are on the verge of coming into promise and purpose. This is not a season of defeat this is a season of birthing. Even as I write this I can hear a baby crying as if in birth. But it is not a single baby, it is twins being birthed. A double portion coming forth for many! Again the battle is “did God really say?” Feast on the Tree of Life in this season and ALL seasons. I guarantee He is able to sustain you. Ask Him for a deeper hunger. You are eating for many, and let Him feed you. He is the bread that comes down from heaven!

As a young boy of about ten I was brought to hear Billy Graham at Easter time. Hearing the story of Jesus in His thirties dying on a cross with two thieves I whispered, "Remember me when you come back as king." Reasoning from ten to thirty is centuries, I reasoned Jesus will surely be coming back by then. All I had given the Lord was, I want to believe, help me believe. That was all He needed, a tiny whisper. Unchurched, unsaved, He pursued me causing a mustard seed to sprout. Surprise, at 30 the Lord began to show me visions of Himself. One vision I had, I was in a room with two thrones. Jesus sat on the judgement seat. He jumped up holding what looked like an aspergillum used for sprinkling Holy Water, only this held His blood. I felt His blood splatter me, my face, and then everywhere almost knocking me backwards. He then went and sat on the other throne. He declared “The judgement seat has become the mercy seat for you. I am changing the course of your life so I can remember you when I come back as King.”

I sat there stunned realizing He had heard the whisper of a ten year old and pursued me to cause that whisper to manifest and bear fruit. The breathe of God was breathing on me causing me to live and not to die. Causing the God dream, my true identity in Him to manifest. That is the faithfulness of a loving Father that in Exodus 6:6 was already declaring the cross when he said, “With an outstretched arm I will redeem you.”

He pursued us all from the garden where broken identity and broken relationship began until on a cross a crushed broken lamb declared to His Father it is finished, our family has been healed.

Three of the gospels speak of Moses and Elijah meeting with Jesus and TALKING with Jesus. Imagine THAT conversation. At times I have had visions of the cloud of witnesses. To me it has looked like a cloud, seeing people inside that cloud but I will see them step out of the cloud to declare Gods promise for their specific generation that they carried. There is absolutely NO sense of loss from their perspective. The sense of loss does not exist in heaven. Their expressions and emotions are void of loss. Instead there is a thankfulness of what has been gained and an expectancy of the manifestation of Gods promise that lies ahead. Our sense of loss is replaced by their sense of expectancy.

In one such encounter I heard, “You look at our generation and wish you could have lived in our generation, but we look at your generation and rejoice in what God is about to do in your generation.” I pray the “dread” of death would be broken off our nation and a rejoicing of life would manifest in its place in our minds. I pray this will give us the grace to not be paralyzed by the darkness but to see the beam of light in the deep darkness. This light is the revealing of Gods faithfulness and goodness in the midst of uncertainty and fear. I believe some are just as the disciples, hoping but unsure, on Good Friday as an innocent man suffered on a cross for ALL humanity. I am sure some of them wondered, “did God really say?” I believe He is God but I see His dead body. After the hoping, but uncertainty of Good Friday came the exuberant celebration of life and GOD REALLY DID SAY! This settled the conversation that began in the garden. Easter is a celebration of life, a love that is stronger than death and a declaration that God really did say.

I pray you all be filled by an expectancy of His glory to rest upon you in the season.

Blessings, Bill & Judy Weinkauff

A Corporate Word

In the last year the Lord has spoken things to me that have provoked me to examine my perspective and thought process.

Throughout the 2019 season the Lord was speaking to me out of Mark 4, where Jesus simply declares, “We are going to the other side.” He then falls asleep in the back of the boat. All is not as it seems at first glance. It usually isn’t in the kingdom of God.

To some in this season, it might seem that Jesus has fallen asleep at the back of the boat where the boat is usually given direction and purpose. I believe it wasn’t so much that Jesus was asleep, but that during this time He was actually seated at the communion table with His Father declaring to the demoniac that the kingdom of heaven is at it’s shore.

A demonic storm arises bringing dispute to what Jesus had just declared. The storm in the natural made it appear that going to the other side was an impossibility. The disciples were not discussing whether Jesus had said they were going to the other side, they went right to “Master don’t you care if we die?” A better response would have been to be in prayer.

This is where we find ourselves in this season, a demonic storm has arisen to make it seem as if God is asleep and surely we will die. Neither is true!

In this season, I had a dream in which I saw a room with several fathers of the faith from the previous generation. They were pointing to a ladder at the end of the room. They were exhorting me to not stop here. There is more, press in!

In the previous email I mentioned the 24 day fast the Lord had led me on. One of the things the Lord had impressed upon me was that if I measured future moves of God based on past experiences or limited how God could move based on previous moves of God it would be possible to miss what God is about to do.

The disciples were looking at the natural circumstance and perceived impending doom. But in the heavenly realm, a door to the miraculous was opening. Their focus on earthly circumstances blinded their perspective for what was about to transpire. They were looking at their natural surroundings based on their own human wisdom and concluded, surely the outcome is not good.

In the boat of uncertainty I pray, “Lord remove the limitations and ceilings I have created to what is possible. I repent of “measuring” your goodness based on what I deduce in my own understanding.”

The Jeremiah 33 word the Lord gave begins by saying. “Ask of Me and I will show you great and mighty things. Things you DO NOT KNOW. The goodness and faithfulness of God is NOT determined by our understanding. God is ALWAYS good and faithful.

It is possible in this season that God will stretch our faith to what IS possible in Him and show us things we don’t even have a grid for. My prayer in this season is, “Lord expand my faith for what IS possible in you, not what is impossible because of the limitations of my own understanding.”

Invitations arise out of times of uncertainty. This invitation is to remove strongholds of impossibilities in our minds, and to arise into identity and experiences that we didn’t think we were capable of receiving.

I had a prophetic experience in this season. I call them encounters because I really don’t know what to call them. When I am in the vision, it is interactive. I hear, see and sense. But most of all, in the midst of it, I feel the Fathers heart pass through me tenderizing my heart for what I am experiencing.

In one such encounter, I stood before the Lord and I know this may sound strange, but this is how it happened. He was putting His work clothes on. (Psalm104) It was like He was putting Himself over me. My legs were in His legs, My arms within His arms. He approached a mountain that I had tried to move for decades, a mountain that I was certain was immovable. He stood upon the immovable mountain, me inside Him, I could feel and sense the fear and dread come over the mountain that stood in opposition to Gods promise over my life. I felt the mountain of granite shake and then turn to sand and flee before His feet. I heard, “What is the mountain before you Zerubbabel, the mountain will become like level ground before you.” (Zechariah 4)

I want to share this vision with those of you who feel the boat is not only sinking, but that you have fallen out of the boat and are drowning. Years ago in a vision, the Lord showed me a man that was drowning. The Lord spoke to me to steady him and hold him up. As I approached, I realized the water I was walking on was only knee deep. Deep enough to pray, anointing my knees for intercession. This mans “mind” his “thoughts” were covered in despair. To him the drowning was real. I took his hand, helped him up and the circumstances that had caused hopelessness could not sink him into despair. His mind had been covered. What we perceive we believe to be true. Does our perception align with Gods word and a spirit of Truth? I believe God is raising up those who are fearful to become warriors and more. His hand is extended out to us, to walk on the water with Him!

In the midst of the plagues, there is more. There is the passover lamb, the bringing forth out of Egypt, the preparation and now the promise. I believe this is the cycle that we are in. The Lord spoke to me about hindsight being 2020. I believe He is taking cycles and patterns that have limited us from stepping into fullness and He is putting us on a path that will result in fruitfulness and fulfillment. The Lord showed this to me out of Numbers 13. There are twelve men that go to Canaan to spy out the Land. All twelve saw the same landscape and the same obstacles. Ten men believed according to the limitation of their own understanding that this was impossible. But Joshua and Caleb determined that no matter how impossible the situation, Gods goodness and faithfulness was still larger than any obstacle.

The Lord spoke to me in that time and said, “What you come into agreement with you give authority to rule over you.” It was huge when Joshua declares “As for me and my house we will serve the Lord.” That is not a magnet we put on our refrigerators, it is a crown that is to rule over our thoughts and words!

In one my quiet times, the Lord told me to approach Him as a priest to minister before Him. One day as I listened I heard, “That won’t fit through the door, leave it outside. I am the Way the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father but through me.” I was sitting in an open basement, just one door in and one door out. I realized He was speaking about Himself as the door not just to the Father but to the promises.

A stronghold is an untruth that we believe about God and therefore ourselves because He is our Father. In that season the Lord was declaring over me my identity and who He is as an overcomer of my inabilities. My inabilities do NOT determine who He is or His measure of faithfulness. As a priest He would declare who I am in Him. Not who I am apart from Him. My only role in that process was to come into agreement with His declaration thus giving His Truth the right to rule over me and bring down strongholds in my thought process and identity.

What you come into agreement with you give authority to rule over you. Those strongholds had put me on paths and years of wonderings. You are who He says you are. He formed you. He knows what is in you and what He fashioned you for. He also knows our shortcomings. When He says, “Let the weak say I am strong” His strength stands in the gap of our weakness and we appear strong but others are really seeing His grace manifest in us. I will expand and finish this in a future teaching.

I leave you with this, I had thought I would send one letter a month. But last night at 2 am the Lord woke me up. I saw a sword press into me. (Hebrews 4) He was showing me my thoughts and attitudes that had hindered what He had planted in me from bearing fruit. But then I had this overwhelming awareness of being filled with perfect Love, all fear began to melt from my being. I was surrounded by His faithfulness, His goodness and His loving kindness. It actually helped me get up like I was weightless. I felt like a helmet of assurance was covering my mind, the helmet of salvation. He was dressing me for war, but he covered my mind first. It was the first piece of armor that he put on me.

I have prayed for years "give me the heart of a warrior.” I saw His glory as He passed before Moses declaring Exodus 34, “The Lord compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.” He keeps bringing me to the passover lamb. I believe He keeps speaking old testament promises and New Testament fulfillment because in the midst of the plagues we will see long time promises begin to be fulfilled for all of us. Gods is faithful in the midst of the exodus and after the plagues. The law guided Israel but a compassionate Father spoke of grace in Exodus 6:6 "With an outstretched arm I will redeem you.”

The Father prophesied the cross, knowing we couldn’t do it on our own, because He never intended for us to do it alone. He always intended for us to FEAST at the table with HIM.

A Word from Bill and Judy on the Virus 2020

Blessings to all. In this season I wanted to reach out to those of you who have allowed me to touch your lives in some way through prophetic ministry. I want to share my perspective, my observations, prophetic experiences that direct my intercession and focus upon the Lord in this season.

My purpose for writing is to be a voice of Hope in this season. During Rosh Hashanah of last year Judy woke to see an elderly man standing over her just watching. This encounter lasted a few minutes. It wasn’t a vision it was someone in the natural standing over her. Judy spends her days working at a hospital, part of a team to give health care to the community. We now realize in the midst of the virus threat God has sent His angels to watch over all of us in this season.

Judy and I experience encounters in our lives that become the prophetic word for the church in that season. In that sense we all become living intercession through our daily lives. I would like to share a series of “words” and experiences that I believe together paint a picture for this season.

Since 2018 the Lord has been prompting me to begin teaching people about the prophetic in context of Isaiah 60. Arise shine for your light has come. Then press on, deep darkness covers the earth. Jesus is called the word of God in the flesh for several reasons. One is He gave language and expression to the redemptive purposes that have dwelt in Fathers heart since the beginning of time. The church should reflect the ministry of Jesus by giving language and expression to the light that shines in the darkness knowing the darkness will not overcome His light that He has placed within us.

John 1:5. The prophetic is just a grace to see light when everyone sees and feels the heaviness of the deep darkness surrounding their circumstance. Many times when ministering I will see the circumstance a person is in as a dark room. Across the room I see a small dot of light. As I watch that and step toward that I realize it is a keyhole in a door. A door to a new season for them and a manifestation of Gods promise in their life. I have been working on a website which I had planned to release this letter through, but I heard “now” the baby is being born.

As I write this now the Lord is telling me this is not a season of darkness this is a season of birthing for many individuals and the church. Recently the Lord spoke to me, “ I prepare a table before you in the PRESENCE of your enemies NOT in the absence of your enemies. He said don’t look down at earthly circumstances, look up into heavenly places where you are seated with Christ Jesus.

The answers are not found on earth but in Christ at the communion table. He spoke to me at the table and said, “look into my eyes where Hope dwells. To see through His eyes, His perspective and not see darkness but the Hope that is right around a corner which we don’t know yet. If we could could figure out our circumstance on our own God would not speak of something unknown that is about to become a part of the equation that will shift our perspective and reveal the answer that was there all along but hidden in the natural realm. Look in to His eyes where Hope dwells, at the communion table and feed upon the Bread of Life.

March 19th in my early morning quiet time I asked the Lord what will be the outcome. In a vision I saw the Lord breathe on the earth, I saw the winter turn to spring and flowers spring up. I remembered a time when the Lord spoke to me, “I breathe for you when you don’t have the hope to breath for yourself. I don’t have to breathe but I breathe for you." I heard” if you can break my covenant with the night and my covenant with the day so can you break my covenant with my servant David. As I searched this out I came to Jeremiah 33, which speaks of the healing of the desolate cities. The sound of bride and bridegroom being heard again. The sound of celebration being heard again. Life continuing into the next generation. Joy being heard in the city again.

I believe Jeremiah 33 is a promise for us in this season. The Lord told me in the midst of the dread of the plagues upon Egypt the Father had a plan and He called it His passover Lamb. I believe there is a timing clue in that word. Later in the day on the 19th I realized it was the first day of spring. The Lord led me on a fast recently. As I have gotten older fasting has become more difficult but when necessary an angel will come and place his hand on me to sustain me in that time. I felt the hand upon me suddenly and knew I was entering a fast. I had no idea about the purpose or the length of the fast in the beginning.

After two weeks I assumed it was a 21 day fast, but on day 21 the Lord began to speak to me of the 24 elders that cast their crowns before the Lamb. It was about the mindset, perspective, even how God had moved in the past. Who will rule over our minds, fear or faith.

Interesting that this virus is called the coronavirus, another name for crown. I watch very little news but spend hours in the word. In my quiet time I was aware of the shifting narrative by the news media trying to shape our world, and I heard, “ I am a sure foundation for your times.” Isaiah 33, He will be a rich storehouse of wisdom and salvation and a sure foundation for your times.

The news narrative shifts and changes trying to turn our focus but the word of God is unchanging stable, able to feed us, sustain us, able to hold us up. Heaven and earth will pass away but MY words shall never pass away. Matthew 24:35 Turn your focus on that which is eternal and a sure foundation. Invest your life in that which is eternal.

In the beginning of the virus I asked the Lord what is this. I heard, “an inoculation against fear”. Sometimes God walks with us through what we fear, and we realize He is bigger than the giants in our life and He reveals the overcomer in us that was there the whole time. We realize He CAN sustain us upon the battle field when we face our giants. This corona virus “crown” wants fear to rule over our thoughts. It’s the fear of the unknown more than the virus itself.

The battle in the garden was “Did God REALLY say?” That is the same battle today. Did he really say He will watch over us and be a Shepard over us. Hebrews 13:5, John 14:18, I will never leave you nor forsake you. I will not leave you as orphans. To trust the unseen to be a shelter over us in the midst of circumstances causes us to give up control and walk by faith not by sight.

God knows our human wisdom and what we can control is a security that we hang on to that keeps us from entering into a realm where miracles dwell. We have tried to reach the world through our programs and presentations. But the tree of knowledge creates a ceiling and has limitations and God is inviting the church to feed from the tree of Life that will not only sustain us in this time but feed many.

The miracles of the fishes and loaves occurred because of a need, not for entertainment. That door is opening again if we look away from the darkness and look for His redemptive purposes and give language and expression to that.

Jesus is called the word of God in the flesh for several reasons. One is He gave language and expression to the redemptive purposes that have dwelt in the Fathers heart since the beginning of time. In this season let us look for His redemptive purposes and give language to that.

I have done prophetic nurture groups for over 20 years. I also worked as a bricklayer during those 20 years. One night exhausted, not sure I had a meeting left in me, I uttered “Lord what is your agenda for tonight”. I heard, “I don’t have agendas, I have expressions of my Love.” Let us be an expression of His love to those around us in this season.

The fields are ripe for harvest! Don’t look at the virus, look at the harvest and He will send His angel to watch over us. To all of us, I feel I am to speak to the God dream inside all of you and say, “You will live and NOT die! I break the fear of death. I pour the horn of oil on you to speak affirmation of the God dream within you to manifest.”

During prophetic ministry for people I will ask the Lord, “ what do they dream about?”One day I heard, “ask Me MY dream for them.” He continued, “ I knew them before I formed them because before I formed them I dreamed of them, as I dreamed of them I interceded for fruitfulness to manifest in their lives. When they came forth they became my dream come true. When they began to manifest fruitfulness, they became the answer to my prayers.”

After that I would see the God dream in each one as an actual embryo, I would see a generational timeline. I would see warfare. I would see many things but God gave me instructions to speak life to the God dream in each one to live and not die. To proclaim LIFE over the God dream which is the fullness of identity, who we really are in Him.

Recently the Lord showed me a vision of a painting that was in a corner of of garage and was being sold at a garage sale. I saw a five dollar bill exchange hands (purchased with grace), the new owner took the painting home. But instead of hanging it up He took a sponge and began to clean it. As He cleaned it a new painting appeared underneath. It was a priceless Rembrandt painted by the hand of the master when He shaped us in our mothers womb. Our own expectations and others manipulation had painted a different portrait, but He was restoring His original masterpiece in each one of us. His purpose, in the season of uncertainty, to put on display the vessels He had shaped by His hand to fill with His life giving Spirit to manifest His expression of Love to others.

God often gives me revelation, not to show me information but to shift my perspective, to cause me to see someone or something as He sees. So I press into these perspectives in intercession trying my best to come into agreement with what I believe is the Fathers heart for man in this season.

Blessings to All,

Bill and Judy Weinkauff