Latest / This Is That: Believe Again / Ep 3 - Dry Bones Living Again
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- Yvonne Denise Hicks: things, and so it's it's a matter of finding your place. And so that's why I want to share these these God stor stories to stir the atmosphere around you, to stir you to to worship and pray. it can be discouraging when there's seemingly all this chaos that's going on. But there's power in the bones. God prepared a place and it's it's worth fighting for, it's worth keeping. it's a part of his covenant. Even in the midst of the chaos, God is with us. And it's it's like well, what is my part the dry bones are talking and they're speaking. And so the Lord is still writing his story. Hi, this is Yvonne Denise Hicks. Welcome to This Is That Believe Again. Can you believe it? We are on episode three. And we are recording this actually a little bit a couple weeks before we would normally do. And so right in this moment when we're recording there's a lot of news that has come out regarding our nation and I just wanted to Just highlight just something on my heart con concerning that that again th there are many voices out there, many opinions, many emotions, but one reason that I'm doing this podcast is so that you would know that the Lord is a covenant keeping God and He keeps He remembers his covenant, He remembers you, He remembers our nation and wherever you're tuning in from He He is a God of the nations. And so pray, stand, listen for what the Lord is is telling what your part is, what your prayer should be, and be at peace because he's a big God. He is the ruler. He is the creator. And Jesus is our King. So Father, I just thank you for those who are joining and and taking the listen. Lord, about believing again. And so tonight we're gonna focus, Lord, on the dry bones living again. And and Lord, we're asking what is our part. And so Father join us, Holy Spirit join us, and we just thank you for your presence, your power, your word, your truth. and this awakening that's upon us. you preappointed our times and and our boundaries and you appointed us to live in this era. And so we thank you, Lord, and we're listening in Jesus' name. So in this episode, Dry Bones Living Again, asking the Lord what is our part. I wanted to share some more God stories. I had touched on them a little bit last time, and then I want to bring in a few other stories because I I think you'll see something. in those stories that will prompt you to like, yes, I I have a part. And so last time I I talked about Harriet Tubman and and Reverend Robert Hunt and we're gonna touch on them a little bit tonight as well. But the place I wanna start is that in twenty twelve when the Lord gave me Releasing Heaven Ministries to kind of steward over, he, you know had did all the paperwork and all that type of thing and I I just needed a little bit of rest and so I went to Hilton Head and just I I grabbed the the intercessor friend who was helping me and and so we just you know really just was gonna spend a week there and like the second day in we like let's pray right and I started seeing an open scenes, open vision of Harriet Tubman in what is Buford County, and I I knew it was too far south. And so it unfolded that story there and please check out the previous episode so you'll hear a little bit more about that. But a part of that vision that I didn't talk about before was that I was asking the Lord why He was sharing this, why he was showing this to me. And he talked about what I heard in my spirit was that he was creating a spiritual, a new spiritual underground railroad. that he was gonna be connecting people, giving them different assignments, because it it's one kingdom, but we all have different parts of it. And so And he was positioning people to be able to come out of bondage, come out of you know, doubt and and you know, all those things that. that kind of trouble on my can I do that? Is that is that for me? And so he was showing me that he was gonna break a company of people out and I know it's happening in many different places. And so I actually happened to see my spiritual mom in this this moment and she's in Philadelphia and so I was like, Okay, it this is beyond the Carolinas and so So I s you you you kind of tuck these things away and you hold hold on to them. And for me, you know, I I write these things down. And so I was going to go to back to Pennsylvania to to visit for Christmas time and the Lord had told me in that season that I needed to go to a conference that was gonna be at the the end of the year and And sure enough I I found that conference and so I had kind of decided to to go from Pennsylvania to Texas, but when mom Ann showed up in my dream, I said, Okay, I'll I'll kind of sidestep and make sure that I see her. So I just didn't understand where this was all leading, but you follow the crumb the brick rums. And so I went to Pennsylvania for for Christmas and was able to do do a little segue and go see mom and and we had we hadn't really seen each other in a while and so it was a good time of fellowship and and I was just sharing her with her about releasing Heaven Ministries and how the Lord was directing me and I I trust her her spiritual nod and so she was nodding and amen and and in the midst of that I got an email from the North Carolina Secretary of State saying that releasing Heaven Ministries was officially formed and we both took that as a prophetic sign. And and as we, you know, journeyed in that season, she actually joined our team at di different times, her and her daughter. And so that was just so powerful and so wonderful. She even took that trip. She was on that trip that where we went to Virginia Beach and and that I mentioned last time. So I Went to that conference that the Lord had told me to to go to. Chuck Pierce was having it, but it was kind of like start the year off right, a type title. And I happened to meet some missionaries there from I I think their their bases in Thailand. I c kind of my geography, believe it or not, kind of gets tangled up. you know, so I was sharing with them, you know. why I was there and the the whole prophetic journey and they were like nodding. They you know, they've seasoned missionaries and and they, you know, h heard the dream and they started s adding to it. They they started adding different pieces. And one of the things that they said that Virginia would would be strategic and and that I I had a convening anointing and that the Lord was gonna send me to different places. So you you know, you kind of tuck those things away and all of that. So so that was just wonderful. And so we we you know I got back to getting started with releasing heaven ministries and we kind of developed a cadence of doing like a a monthly worship event and we were doing prayer walks. and and that type of thing. and just really engaging in spiritual warfare. I'll I'll share kind of that pattern that the Lord showed me in a in a episode coming about why that is and what that rhythm does in in the territory. But if you think of always kinda butcher the name Alamanga, Gualamala, they did that. and different places have done that. And I came across different people groups across centuries actually of doing that type of thing. And so we were invited to train a missionary or evangelist rather in Haiti and so I you know shared that with the the w the leaders there at Chuck Pierce's mir ministry and you know th we we had prayer support which was fabulous and so, you know, 'cause I was getting go five times and so forth. And so we went to Haiti and, you know, i if if you don't know, that was kind of you know, in that season where the the devastating earthquake had happened and so many lives were lost. And so we I found that that evangelist and she shared with me the story of what the when the earthquake hit and and all that kind of thing. And so we had a time of initial prayer and literally you could feel the presence of the Lord. You could he feel someone walk into the room and it's like that that time of prayer even initially it was just a small small team and using, you know, kind of a an iPod type thing for the music. And I had a translator and he gasped. So I was like, okay, I'm not the only one feeling that the Lord has stepped into Haiti. So just really powerful time. We have I'm gonna include some links so that you can see the progression there of what the Lord did did. It was just Really powerful. There's a lot of work that still needs to to be done, but we were able to encourage some teams of them boots on the ground. We were able to bring in art and living learning and different styles of learning and it it was just fabulous. So we d did like a total of of five trips, even did like a whole big outdoor worship and and and prayer in Kafu Fei, which was one of the heaviest hit areas and We w traveled on to, you know, to Laagon and actually was able to you know, pray, you know, 'cause there's voodoo and and different things going on there, was able to, you know, with the leaders that were boots on the ground, we were able to pray and so and and really see our small part of of of seeing them progress, you know, and and and offering prayer and comfort and so forth. So It was just a really, really powerful time. And so as the Lord, as we're faithful to the what what the Lord has given us to do, we take this the steps and that type of thing, he expands the vision and so forth. And so that January twenty twelve fourteen in the in the midst of this, I heard I need you to go to a town and in the northwest corner of Italy near the border of France. And so you come to just say, Yes, Lord. And so trying to figure that out what that was. And then I was watching these teachings by Robert Ho Heiler and he was talking about the Waldisians and how they were lights in the darkness during the d the Dark Ages time and things like that. And in this particular teaching he showed the map and they were in the northwest corner of Italy. near the border of France. And so that started us on a joint journey. We checked you know leaders in terms of getting agreements. Yep, that that's that's I had heard from Linda Heiler that that was the one place in the you know the the different places that carried revival and awakening history. That was one of the places that they were not able to go to. And so The Lord blessed us to be able to complete that assignment. And while we were doing the research and and and and things like that, we found out their connection to the Moravians. And so it in those moments I was like, Yes, you know, I had that open vision, which I'll share in a couple episodes. I had that open vision. and I it was the first night I had moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which is a Moravian hub. They founded that town. And so just these dots and and and and kind of a dance with the Lord is just amazing. And so we found out that in eighteen ninety-three there was a company of Waldisians that actually moved to North Carolina to a town called Valdez, and they which is literally off of I forty. And so their the exit is one one one. And so I we we g got a chance to go and visit there because they have an an open outdoor museum. It's called Trail of Faith. because and I I've I'm including a link in the show notes to kind of so you kind of can walk that journey with us. It was it was just truly amazing, but they were people of of faith and people of mission and it kind of reminded me of of Nehemiah and in terms of rebuilding and keeping a community, keeping a presence of the Lord. And I I marveled that that Nehemiah's That the wall was found in that vision that I talked about in terms of or that instruction from the Lord to kind of go to Virginia Beach and and have found the story about Reverend Robert Hunt. just a couple months after that, they discovered for the first time the remains of Nehemiah's wall in Israel. And so those are kind of things that that that are signed in in in your journey and when you're, you know. all of us have different language and and things of how the Lord talks to us that's scripturally based and I'm gonna include some of the teachings and stuff the the little handouts that we have ab about that in the show notes as well. And so so rebuilding walls and gates and restoring fellowship and just community and thriving. thriving communities it is just so powerful and so we went to Italy and it was just amazing to hear the testimonies and just so powerful how they kept their faith and they're not recognized a lot in the reformers, you know, the the whole Reformation because they never left the church and they were heavily persecuted. there they were threatened and by the church at the at the time, what you know, about evangelizing, like don't do it. Don't read the scripture. You know, so they would actually sew th the chapters and verses into their clothes and garments and they would still go out like two by two and and go and and minister. And so the Waldisians and the Moravians really honored one another. I think the first nine bishops in the Moravian church we found were ordained by by the Waldisians. They it was such honor and just amazing of how they kept their faith in in the midst of chaos. And and even now, you know, I think hearing that and hearing their story and and taking a deep dive in that it's it's gonna be really powerful to remember. And so So that that was completely amazing and and then that following year in twenty fifteen in that July they had identified the bones they you know in Jamestown of Reverend Robert Hunt. And in when I saw that those articles, I was like I never made it to First Landing. You know, I I heard his story and everything and so I had planned a trip to go at Thanksgiving time, you know, and so and in that moment, you know, the that that season, there was a lot of stirring about They Found the Bones and they had a conference in Texas, Chuck Pierce and Dutch Sheets had come and you know communication there was a problem with the communication like s some truck hit a pole or and that type of thing. So it wasn't until I got to Virginia that I actually heard the whole you know conference and Dutch Sheets was talking about the bones and how you know and th there was a prophetic song that went out. I think the stories in s in Second Kings about how when marauders came into the land, you know Israel was kind of like had had backed up a bit and you know they they needed to bury this man and so when they saw the marauders they threw him in a grave which happened to be Elisha's grave and the man sprung up alive and so there was this professional Sound there's power in the bones. There's power in the bones. And so it made me think about in in that season and now again, this season of how sometimes it can be discouraging when there's seemingly all this chaos that's going on. But there's power in the bones. And so God remembers covenant. So I got a chance to go to First Landing, and they have a replica of there of of the cross and as I was pre preparing this episode the Lord had me focus on on the cross and what what Jesus paid for he paid for a greater covenant for us to walk in and so we have power from the from the covenant that God made and he He's still alive. Jesus is still alive. And he left us Holy Spirit. He sent Holy Spirit. And so it's just an amazing, powerful message to know about that. The cross answers everything. Jesus came to fulfill the old covenant and and create a new covenant where again, Acts 17, we're we're all nations. are are are a part of what God is doing in this hour. And so that was a profound time for me. And so that's kind of why we kept kind of going back to to Jamestown and and seeing what other tidbits that we could pick up. And so I in that again faithfulness of obeying these little assignments, the Lord gave us in twenty sixteen to kind of really do like an Ephesians four movement is what he called it. And so where we would also be equipping people as we went. And so that's why there's handouts and things like that 'cause those are the kind of things that we were doing and small teams of people, but people wanted to know, you know, how the how to pray and how to prayer walk their community and and what to do. you know, after that. And so that we our one of our first times of of going out and and kind of officially doing that on on a little bit larger sc scale is with the training and so forth was in Guilford County, which is where Greensboro is. And so we did, you know, kind of the spiritual recon of of just kind of spying out the land and in terms of trying to to find the trouble spots and where to pray or w the blessings, right? What what can we bring forth. And one of the places that I stopped past was the a military battlefield. And I, you know, pulled over and when I stepped out of my car and stepped on the land, the presence of the Lord hit me so strong. I was like, whoa. And I later found a message from Dutch Sheets that talked about cause they would go to different civil war starts sites, revolutionary war sites and and things like that. The battlefields and and he said that ho Holy Spirit is hovering over these battlefields and you could it was tangible. And it just so happened that they had a reenactment of the the battle coming up. And so we planned as a team to go back. And it was so powerful. I I heard I don't know if it was for the first time or not, but the story about General Nathaniel Green, a a young Quaker. And he was kind of like George Washington's right hand man, if you will. And and so I you know, I I I think about these seasons where there's the Moravians, it's the Quakers, as you know, there were there were ten nations that came to America to to settle here and and they were here and had built communities and and and things like that and they purpose that that God had a plan for America and and the Lord told me that he had made covenant with Reverend Robert Hunt. And so th you know, because of the cross and because of his heart and passion, even though he didn't get a chance to live out that dream, he only lived through the next year and had a hard next year. And so so we we went and found out this story and then As we were praying, I could hear, you know, there's a total reenactment, you know, you hear the the gunfire and the shouts and and things like that and you know drums beating and everything, and I could feel in that moment of how the Lord had prepared a place, prepared America to receive his tattered church. the Waldisians who were heavily persecuted, Moravians, you know, just these different people groups, these different nations who love the Lord, who worship the Lord, and were being heavily persecuted. And the Lord prepared a place for for me in in in what I was thinking for Holy Spirit to be able to fully fall in that first great awakening that birthed this nation. And Just just powerful how the Lord's love is and he's just not gonna do it for us. And I I love that because he's with us and he's teaching us who we are. And so we went and in the the middle of the the that reenactment with the the drum cadence because in the Greensboro has a lot of colleges and and things and I could hear Like that that cadence, that drum, the drum beat calling to the young people in the mountains on the hillsides of these college campuses and calling them into the fullness of of what God has for them. And so God prepared a place and it's it's worth fighting for, it's worth keeping. it's a part of his covenant. And so again Even in the midst of the chaos, God is with us. And it's it's like well, what is my part of the story? The the dry bones are talking and they're speaking. And so the Lord is still writing his story. He's he's still writing the story of America. And so I you know, some of us are are called to different things, and so it's it's a matter of finding your place. And so that's why I want to share these these God stor stories to stir the atmosphere around you, to stir you to to worship and pray. And I know a lot of you are already are, but to to just have another testimony to be able to stand on and and war with. so you know, I know you're asking, you know, is is it you know something I need to create? Do I need to serve in government? is is it raising families which is so important. what is it? Is it is it teaching which needs a lot of help in the in the education system. You know, so is it prayer? Is it worship? Is you know what is the Lord taught? And He still speaks. And so He's a covenant keeping God. So ask the Lord what is my part? Lord, what is my And he will answer, I assure that. So so for the past three episodes we've just been, you know, kind of exploring, you know, God's faithfulness through history and through covenant. He he he doesn't change. He he wants us with us on the journey. And so next time I'm going to I have a guest coming. She's her name is Kim Petit, she's community leader here and a good friend. And so I I would l loving the opportunity to be able to hear her story and have her share you know about her family about what motivates her just you know just having a conversation and so as I close I just want to remind you you know take a look at those show notes that I that we put out read the scriptures I I the Berean Bible training Facebook page had posted some things about this covenant, about what we have in Christ that are little snippets and one of them I kind of dug through so that you could get all the scripture references. So that's in in the show notes there's a link there. I include Harriet Tubman's story a little bit and about Nathaniel Green and also about Colton you know, seeing that episode where, you know, he was talking about heaven and meeting Jesus and what he's doing now and just the things that he's gone through. It's was so powerful, so and very timely. So, just wanna say come back next time, pray for our nation, pray pray for people, pray for his kingdom, the Lord's kingdom come, his will being done. And his kingdom is righteousness, peace and joy. And he's called us to disciple people and nations. And so we have a great opportunity. This is a new awakening. and so so find out what that means. You know, find out what that looked like before. take a look at that. So God bless you. have a great week. I I'll be praying and many, many, many others will be praying for our nation as as we go through the next several months. And it's our 250th celebration, and the Lord we've rededicated this nation back to him, and the Lord is with us, and he's answering because he remembers covenant. And so the question is, Lord, what is my part? So God bless you. And we'll see you next time.