STRATEGIC PRAYER & FORWARD MOVEMENT

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Hosted by James W. Goll | May 13th, 2010
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Several weeks ago our team worked in the fields of harvest in Oklahoma during our annual outreach among the Cherokee Nation.  Each month we try to bring you some type of report concerning the outreach work that this ministry is engaged in. So this week, John Mark Rodgers and I are bringing you a report both in writing and in photos from our time in Oklahoma.

It was indeed an honor to represent the Lord and you in Tahlequah and we believe our time there was quite effective. We distributed 170,000 meals of fortified rice into two different food pantries and gave over 500 copies of our book God Encounters to the First Nation’s people.

Our transition to the smaller building is now complete and the EN staff and I had a profitable prayer time dedicating the new location to the Lord’s purposes. We sold some of our extra equipment and gave lots of it away to other ministries and people in need. We have freely sowed seed in our time of need trusting the Lord for a breakthrough on our own behalf.

Last week I was in San Antonio, Texas with Patricia King, Beth Alves, Joan Hunter, Ryan Pena and Mark Roye for a conference there. I enjoyed seeing old friends that were able to come up and attend the gathering.

Many of you are aware of the devastation that has taken place through the historic amount of rain that fell two weekends ago in Middle Tennessee. The impact of the flooding is huge. The national level reporting of this catastrophe has somewhat been lost in the news due to the oil slick off the Gulf Coast, the bomb scare in NYC, the political immigration debate in Arizona, etc. But this is a national disaster right here in my home town and state!
 
Tens of thousands of people without electricity… the famous Grand Ole Opry House, Opryland Hotel, and Titans Stadium under water… businesses washed away and whole neighborhoods destroyed… and lives lost. Tennessee is known as the Volunteer State and so it has been with thousands of locals (and out-of-state people) showing up in flooded neighorhoods helping to clean up and restore the damage done. There is even a local company producing T-shirts with the phrase "WE ARE NASHVILLE". It is amazing to see community happening in almost every area of society... See below for more on this state altering event! We are therefore setting up a fund through the combined efforts of Encounters Network and Compassion Acts for the Nashville Emergency Relief Fund.

Please remember to take advantage of our FREE book offer for the month of May from our online bookstore. With any purchase this month, you will receive a FREE copy of the revised and expanded version of The Lost Art of Intercession. Tell others about this great opportunity! Now, as always, remember that together in Jesus, we make a great team!

Serving the Lord with Gladness!

James W. Goll and Team!

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>>Click Here<< to donate online to help the FLOOD VICTIMS of middle Tennessee.
 
We have set up the NASHVILLE EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND to help our friends (we have a staff member who house was flooded as well as some of our EN team members who homes and business were flooded) in our own midst.  Then we will move forward to figure out how we are to help our community!
 
>>CLICK HERE<< to give an Online Donation to our Emergency Relief Fund. We will first help our Staff and Friends and then as funds allow, send further help to NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE!
 
We (EN & You) have given to Haiti – we have given to Mozambique – and we have targeted Katrina and other natural disasters. Now we will target "MUSIC CITY, USA" and help come to the aid of our very own city! Let’s come together as the EN Community and the EN Alliance to help our beloved city and our beloved team members. It is time to demonstrate we are Christians by our love! Now is the time to let compassion ACT in behalf of those in our own back yard!
 
Let’s Just Do It!
 
James W. Goll

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STRATEGIC PRAYER &
FORWARD MOVEMENT
A Report on the Cherokee Day of Prayer

 

The Eighth Annual Western Band of the Cherokee National Day of Prayer was heralded as one of the most memorable in our collective history.  This Day of Prayer is held the last weekend in April each year.  This year’s gathering met on the grounds of the National Heritage Museum located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.  The grounds were used with Tribal governmental blessing for the first time.  Several local congregations participated by providing worship leaders, tents, and sound equipment.  Mark Roye with his Compassions Acts team cooked a wonderful lunch of Texas brisket for the entire gathering!  James spoke Friday evening on the importance of strategic intercession.  His teaching opened the way for our time of prayer on Saturday.

Communication with God the Father is our birthright as a result of the Cross.  As a result, there are many forms of prayer available to us as believers. We find dozens of different patterns of prayer identified in the bible.  One of the most challenging is what can be categorized as “strategic intercession”.  Strategic intercession is most always apostolic in nature.  The Apostolic being partially defined as having a focus involving issues pertaining to a people group at some level.  People groups can span a wide gamut of social communities.  These communities include neighborhoods, national and international societies of people.

Strategic Roots Addressed

The Eighth Annual Day of Prayer, for the first time chose to address strategic root issues from the past as part of their activities.  These root issues existed between the tribe and the first democratically governed community of European settlers.  In the United Sates the first independently governed communities were a group of four settlements located in what is now eastern Tennessee.  One of these communities was known as the Watauga Settlement.  The Watauga Settlement was founded in 1772.  It is said that from these four communities sprang the independence movement.  This independence movement drew to its ultimate conclusion by giving birth to the United States some four years later.  The Watauga Compact (signed government contract between those at the location) would then be foundational to the Declaration of Independence in 1776.  The Watauga Settlement was located in what is now known as Carter County, Tennessee.

On April 19, 2010, the Carter County Government in Tennessee passed a resolution of a Day of Peace to coincide with the Cherokee National Day of Prayer.  This resolution was the first government to government reconciliation thus far between our collective people groups that we are aware of.  A descendant of those at the Watauga settlement confessed a fear based control issue that resided within the foundations of the independence movement.  Those representing the Cherokee accepted the resolution and reconciliation releasing the land from a word curse spoken over the state.  Due to the treachery of land purchase practices used by the settlers, the tribal leadership was split over the sale of land to these first groups of Europeans.  It was said over part of Tennessee that “a cloud hangs over it (the land) and it will be dark and blood to settle.”  The Cherokee present prayed to remove the dark cloud over the state and replaced the cloud with an “open heaven”.  They removed any dark spiritual residue left as a result of the settlers broken promises.  No longer would the Tennessee be known as a place of innocent bloodshed.  

The Cherokee Nation made room for the encroachment of the four settlements willingly. Chief Little Carpenter pleaded with the British government to allow the settlements to stay on tribal lands.  Therefore, historically, they had a foundational hand in giving birth to a nation. Even though the settlements treated the Cherokee with less than reputable dealings, the Cherokee have a birthright.  This birthright is the freedom they so willingly deserve.  The Cherokee picked up the mantle of freedom to express to others the freedom they enjoy thru Christ. They rejoiced in their redemptive gift and we rejoiced with them!

Walking in Humility and Wisdom

As we addressed each strategic issue, the Cherokee declared the issue resolved by the use of a judge’s gavel carved from the tree under which the Watauga Compact was signed in 1772.  By convening the court of heaven we asked the Supreme Judge, God our Father, to record our prayers and release His blessing.

Many people did not know that the name “Tennessee” is believed to have derived from the capitol of the Cherokee nation known now historically as “Tanasee”.  If that is the case we equally have a birthright in this state.  Tanasee was a righteous seat of government for thousands of years before the first European contact.  It was a seat of tribal justice and equity.  We realigned the state in the spiritual realm by prophetically renaming it correctly as Tanasee.  May God’s government reside in this land in new ways.

Young Cherokee Girls interpreting the Lord's Prayer	Ada Win responds with a Cherokee Declaration of Forgiveness and Freedom	Cherokee Pastor Clifton releases his Blessing
Ada Winn sitting in chair on the stage at the Day of Prayer for the Cherokee	Governmental Decrees are Read	John Mark Rodgers humbling himself to Ada Winn and the Cherokee People
Mark Roye, Robert and James at the Holy Smoke Pitt	Mark and Robert worked hours cooking the Texas Brisket	Feasting Begins!
Alter Call		Various Pictures from the National Day of Prayer for the Cherokee Nation.

Spill Over Affects

There was a spiritual buzz in the air as these root issues were resolved before God.  His great mercy seemed to be whispering in our ears with the warm gentle breeze.  The atmosphere shifted toward a wonderful spring day.  The sun came out and the rain hovering over the area dissipated.  Our barbeque dinner was under a wonderful blue sky with a warm breeze among the trees.  The resolution of freedom spilled over into Sunday worship time.  At one church a man came forward to reconcile between his father’s ranching practices and the Cherokee he had hired to work the land.  We all felt God presence.

In the Seer realm, James Goll saw an old fashion Camp Meeting being held at this same site in the future – he named it Holy Fire Camp Meeting. This would be a part of redeeming the land and fulfilling prophetic destinies. He saw in the Spirit a fresh movement of deliverance from alcoholism and a spirit of adoption coming upon the people where children’s homes would be built and a new day would come for the Cherokee. May it spread to every tribe for Jesus Christ sake!

 "If My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

Releasing God's Harvest to a Generation,

John Mark Rodgers

Harvest Group, PLLC
524 N. Dixie Ave.
Cookeville, TN 38501
www.harvestgrouppllc.com

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