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- Yvonne Denise Hicks: Greetings and welcome to episode one of This Is That Believe Again. ⁓ my name is Yvonne Hicks and I will be your host. some of you know me ⁓ at different levels, and some may just have stumbled onto ⁓ YouTube or other channels and don't know me at all. So either way, I welcome you. ⁓ for the record, let me introduce myself. I'm a born-again, Holy Spirit-filled believer, a bond servant, a daughter. Hi. ⁓ ⁓ both sides of my family are from the Carolinas. So I now live in the mountains of Western North Carolina, and there is a story there. So which ⁓ I will share before we end today. ⁓ I recently ⁓ gave a couple of interviews ⁓ where I I went into more of my background, but ⁓ here's my brief bio, my why for doing this broadcast and the exciting things ⁓ we will be sharing here. So I grew up Turbulent times, even violent times. ⁓ was it was a time of like assassinations and wars and rumors of wars, again, riots, turmoil. And but I loved Jesus at age seven. And John 3:16 was my Easter play scripture. But no one led me to the Lord then. And I didn't get saved until I was 21. So there are many missteps that happen along the way, but ⁓ once I became a born-again. I was all in. My life was completely laid down. So one of my giftings is that I'm a seer, I'm a dreamer. I call my encounters God stories. So I shared ⁓ a great bit via a previous podcast, as they call them these days. It was named This Is That, Making It Plain. And I I started out on Periscope and then Facebook, and that ran from like 2016. To 2022. And in the midst of that, the Lord had me write a book with all of these God stories. And I had been trained to write notes and kind of document what we're doing for the Lord and make sure you know you have a record, go back, review, and that type of thing. So I did that, and I had, you know, different reports and posts and different things. And so I kind of compiled those things into a book and discovered some things as I was writing, threads that had never Never knew we were there before. And so the book came out in 2019. So it's been seven years. A friend recently introduced me to Ramona of Blossoms of My Life Radio, who introduced me to ⁓ Apostle Ed. So I shared a great bit of my testimony on in those other interviews. So I'm back now with this new podcast because awakening is at hand. And so the format ⁓ for this will be the first. Third Thursdays of every month, and I wanted to be sure that I started before July 4th as I I hope that what I'm about to share with you will inspire you really to join in on the festivities, even if I'm online. So what you can expect is a dance of my sharing God's stories, having guests, and however the Lord leads. So I'm working on a link tree which should be ready ⁓ by the time you see this. But you can find me on Facebook, YouTube for now for sure. And so I just before we ⁓ jump in, I want to acknowledge some folks, but I I do want to share an important God story before we end. So I want to ⁓ acknowledge my ⁓ offline producer Crystal and my Believe Again ⁓ prayer team. I'm very grateful for their support. And I also want to give a shout out to ⁓ Georgian and Winnie Banoff's Global Celebration. ⁓ ministry for their dream builders academy. I I just finished up ⁓ on ⁓ Friday ⁓ June 28th or if I have that date right but it was absolutely amazing eye-opening and just really refreshing and ⁓ also ⁓ my confirmed guest ⁓ coming up ⁓ in the days to come or the weeks to come is Kim Petit ⁓ who's the moms for Liberty Buncombe County Chair plus she has several other amazing things that she does Does. My friend Kara, she and her husband, they run a foster care ⁓ nonprofit for dogs. ⁓ And they own a store in the local farmers market, Kara's Corner. Then Roseblash, who's an educator. She provides support to families with reading ⁓ support there, has a tutoring business, and she bakes some yummy, healthy breads and cookies for her family and friends. So, and then Crystal Tally, my producer, I've known her for A long time. She has an AI business, Vision Flow Solutions. She ⁓ is involved in faucet care, she's the elder in the church and a sought-after ⁓ speaker. So before we s we ⁓ today, I want to take the remainder of this episode to share one of my God stories because I believe it ⁓ it speaks to why believe. And so ⁓ many of the ministers, apostles, prophets, and others that I've followed for years have declared that we are in a new era ⁓ and that the great awakening has begun. And I wholeheartedly agree. And I know that there are many who have ⁓ aligned some of the events that have happened over the past several years with the the Great Rapture. But ⁓ I don't believe that's really what the scriptures say at all. And so I recommend you check out some messages. ⁓ there was a Glory River conference that Tem Sheets did at the end of May and ⁓ Gina Goldston has great stuff. And ⁓ there's a pastor in South Carolina that has a Bereen Bible training a free thing on on Facebook that you should check out. And and I ⁓ helped organize ⁓ a a local Bible college About twenty years ago now, and ⁓ if you have read if you have to read the scripture, you really do have to read the scriptures in the context of the audience it was written for. And so Matthews 24, for example, is about the destruction of the temple in A.D. 70. And the revel revelations ⁓ the was ⁓ written to the churches mentioned there. ⁓ has the symbolic language that that John uses what was in other scriptures like the book of Daniel and the Book of Enoch. Which ⁓ I believe ⁓ is scripture because Jesus called it scripture and the apostles referred to it as sc ⁓ scripture. So and I recommend ⁓ Johnny Inlo has some materials on that as well. So so here is a quick version of one of my God stories. Seven years ago I finished the book. ⁓ the Lord had me to write. I finished it at Passover, and then the Lord sent me to Jerusalem for Pentecost. And ⁓ then on the Feast of Tabernacles, I was actually in northern Iraq for ⁓ a hundred hour worship and prayer event. And ⁓ it was my second trip there. ⁓ we arrived a few days early because I finally was going to meet the Kurds, ⁓ a people group that had been in my dreams, that ones that I Have back in the 80s, and they are nomadic people, so there's a lot of speculation about their origins. and it was interesting to me that ⁓ our first trip to the region ⁓ was on Purim in in 2017. The Lord had me look at the date ⁓ as we were packing to depart, and ⁓ he he had me look up the story of Queen Esther and the cupbearer, Nehemiah, and indeed there was a connection. I had never heard that before. And so the Kurds Fought in the First World War as an ally. They promised them a land of their own and it never happened. And then since 2004, that region has really been devastated by ISIS. And I thought about Mordecai and how the Lord remembers and rewards. And I truly expect for them to receive their full reward from our King Jesus. And so during my trips, I I heard some amazing testimonies of the Believers in that region, ⁓ Muslim background, ⁓ they give up everything when they follow Jesus. And but the Lord's presence is so there, and they have dreams, they have visions, and so the depth of their faith ⁓ has really helped me to pray for those in our nation, ⁓ in our cities, those who may be living non-Christian lives, people in our family just living perhaps in unbelief, and how God can Really visit them and change everything. And so the leader of the ministry with that House of Prayer is from the island of Malta in Greece. And I recently saw a documentary about the people of Malta. And they have a fierce, fierceness in their faith. And it was because of Apostle Paul's missionary journey there. He actually arrived in ⁓ 60 AD, and it was not by d design. It was a disaster. They were shipwrecked. ⁓ And so ⁓ off the coast there, they were trying to get to Rome, and they had to ⁓ you know, but they barely escaped with their lives. And so it was Paul's journey ⁓ to Maltain that that teaches us the resilience. You know, it's it's not the absence of struggle, but the ability to trust in God's plan even when the path is unclear. So ⁓ of note, between the US and Iran, ⁓ that's Started around poor. And there's much more to the story there, but ⁓ I encourage you to look at the videos that depict the different people groups in these regions of conflict bec before they were taken over, including Venezuela, which has now been set free, and hopefully Cuba is next. But Jesus is the desire of all nations. And our our Heavenly Father is setting all of his children free within their own borders that he established. And the picture for me there is ⁓ is twofold. Acts 17, which we will talk about next time, and Matthew 5. ⁓ so so so look it up. It's there's a ⁓ the Mount of Beatitudes, it's there's the picture of the sheep. the Lord is telling them, you know, feed them, get them in groups of 50. And ⁓ so nations are God's ideas, and in that ⁓ I found out that sheep ⁓ recognize up to 50 faces. And so the Lord puts us in nations so that we can ⁓ know one another and know him and all of that. So Psalm 2, Isaiah 2, and it's the promise to Abraham that he would bless all nations through Abraham. And so that brings me back to America. So again, I wanted to podcast, ⁓ wanted this podcast to launch before July 4th to honor what the Lord has done ⁓ in the covenant he made with folks like Reverend Robert Hunt, ⁓ the pilgrims, the Puritans, and I will share ⁓ more about them on the July 16th ⁓ release. And but be of good courage ⁓ because we've read the Bible as a nation out loud for a whole week. ⁓ we've had a redemption. Dedication of our nation to the Lord, one nation under God. And so the Lord is restoring national sovereignty so people can prosper. So right before that last trip to Iraq, I heard the Lord say it was time to rebuild the walls of our nation. And again, this applies to all nations. And that season on God's calendar was the month of Alul, and that's when Nehemiah actually led the rebuilding of the walls. and the gates in Jerusalem. And so ⁓ as I ⁓ entered into 2020, I I formed a new ministry to begin rebuilding. And before COVID struck, we were able to ⁓ achieve a couple projects and at least was able to get some things started there. ⁓ But my heart in that season was actually to return to Iraq. And I I thought I would have a chance to maybe spend a few months there, maybe even a year. But that summer I had two back-to-back dreams where I was in a car driving through the Middle East. It's wonderful how dreams can you can do things. And and it was places I had just visited in 2019, both in in Israel and in Iraq. And and I ⁓ pulled into I was following this red ⁓ sports car and ⁓ I thought about the blood of Jesus and just zipping and I was following in the car and I pulled over to this this junkyard and I kind of got out of my car and was walking back through the nation right and so ⁓ there was an open market there in my dream that reminded me of Iraq and and so I I was impressed that I needed to get to a highway and ⁓ I was you know ⁓ passing through narrow ⁓ walkways and there was a checkpoint and I was telling them you know ⁓ didn't really speak the language but I was telling them that I needed to get to a highway and I was Like I couldn't quite figure it out because I was like, Well, why did I get out of my car and all of that? And so on the second dream I had, I could see the highway. ⁓ it was across a chasm, and ⁓ it looked like it was in the US, and ⁓ and so I could see the highway, and so I I had a a second dream, and same same thing, you know, out of the car, walking, getting to the checkpoint, and at the end of that walkway. ⁓ there was there was guards and and things like that and there was like in an abandoned ⁓ carousel where where children would play and it was abandoned and and so in the dream I was in a parachute and ⁓ I was able to I was standing there in this B1 bomber ⁓ and I checked, you know, because the B1 bombers were were actually stationed in that area. So there was some truth to some of this. And a B-1 bomber came by and my it lifted my parachute and I floated across this chasm and landed on the highway that was in the United States. And when I I landed, I the cars were kind of like passing through me. And ⁓ I was like, they're going the wrong way, right? And so I leaned forward and the highway. actually tilted and ⁓ and then s people were starting to have tr trouble like speeding along and ⁓ some of them started turning around and and ⁓ I got it okay I'm I'm going in in the wrong direction and so Those were like two back to back dreams. And then ⁓ my friend Cameron, her her husband, called me and asked me because I to speak for them ⁓ that November. And as we were talking, because I was trying to figure out well where's this highway? ⁓ I I I got a sense that the highway was actually in their area. And so I shared the dreams with him and and he told me, Hmm, that sound like I forty and I was like, hmm I forty goes through Asheville, ⁓ different things and i if you know the area here in asheville there's ⁓ it's very liberal and l there's witchcraft around here and and folks doing different things. it didn't start out that way and so The Lord gave ⁓ multiple confirmations and all I could do was say, Yes, Lord and ⁓ I took the team on a trip to kind of check out the area. I drove all the way th down ⁓ 'cause ⁓ out I forty to Wilmington, North Carolina, 'cause there was ⁓ all of these ⁓ prophetic words about I I forty. People all over the place were like driving I I forty in their area and it was about Isaiah forty. So I encourage you to take a take a look at that. I'll be sharing more ⁓ about that, but ⁓ that portion of of I-40 from where I lived, ⁓ you actually, you know, you're going through the mountains and the mountain range is the Piscah mountain range. It was sp ⁓ specifically named ⁓ for Moses. And so I I was like, okay, yes Lord. And so ⁓ I'm gonna ⁓ in that portion Because we'll talk more about these dreams and visions that ⁓ that the Lord has given me. But I I've been ⁓ chasing the next great awakening since nineteen eighty one. And as I made plans to move in this region in I-40, again there were many prophetic dreams released by others. And ⁓ I had ⁓ past visions of of watch fires being lit ⁓ from the northwest to Atlanta across our northern b border. border and I I saw ⁓ in in that meeting ⁓ that ⁓ I did for Cameron and her husband that that that meeting that ⁓ took place I you know had an open vision of seeing you know ⁓ rivers coming off the mountains ⁓ actu actually look looking looking like birth canals and ⁓ the river became a great river. There was all these streams and it went all the way to the coastland. And so Many people have had visions and ⁓ about revival and awakening and even even now there's ⁓ a Glory River conference that Tim Sheets had that ⁓ Dutch t talked about the river of God and there were people from Oregon there and so ⁓ it was prophesied that there's a great move of God ⁓ coming in that area, even though all the troubles, like again, my my trip to Iraq, even though There's all these troubles and and there's all this unbelief, God is sovereign. And so there's no way in the natural for us bringing it forward to America. There's no way in the natural that we should have won the Revolutionary War. But God has a plan for nations. He has a plan for this nation. And so I have great expectation for this great, great thing. So I I want to leave. Leave it there. ⁓ and I just want to encourage you, like with that abandoned carousel, you know, I I want you to encourage to pray for your children and grandchildren. There is an assault on our little ones and ⁓ the generations and so ⁓ our kids need to know joy, they need to know laughter, they need to know fun. and so I believe and I decree and declare that the third great awakening is upon us and it's time to rebuild the walls and restore the gates, just like in the book of Nehemiah. So come find the next podcast. it'll be on July sixteenth, ⁓ and ⁓ I'll be ⁓ here again Every first and third Thursday. And and again, if it's not posted yet, ⁓ look for my link tree. It's coming soon. So happy Fourth of July, happy Independence Day. God bless you, God bless America, and God bless each nation tuning in. Believe or believe again, all nations belong to Jesus, and the great awakening is upon us. God bless you all and we will see you next time. We're ⁓ okay.