In the dream about the second American Revolutionary/Civil War, I saw that different people were called to go after different strongholds. They received their call by teeing off on a golf course. The thing that “tees you off” the most is a way you will know what you have been called to fight. If there is a deep anger, a provoking of your spirit about a specific evil, then consider this a call of God. It is time to get to your post and do something about it.
Living waters come from “the innermost being.” Those in Christ have both positive and negative callings, just as Jesus did. We’re told that He went about doing good, and we’re also told that He came to “destroy the works of the devil.” Of course we would like to just do the fun part, the doing of good, but we are all called to destroy the works of the enemy. If we shy away from either of these, we will not fulfill our ultimate purpose.
In Isaiah 60:18, The Lord said of Jerusalem that He would call her gates praise and her walls salvation. When the exiles returned to rebuild the destroyed city, they had to build the walls with a trowel in one hand and a sword in the other. There are times when we have to build and fight at the same time. If they had not been willing to fight, they would have never finished with the building, and neither will we.
As we read in Ecclesiastes 3, there is a time for everything—a time for peace and a time for war. It is time for war. How could it ever not be when we are told that “the whole world lies in the power of the evil one” (I John 5:19). Yet, God’s army, one of the major characteristics of the body of Christ that we are called to be, is hardly reflected anywhere in the body. This is about to change. There will be a military organization and demeanor coming to the advancing church.
My default spiritual weapon is to write or speak about a timely truth I’ve been given. When I had this dream about the second coming American Revolutionary/Civil War, I immediately inquired of The Lord about what I could write or teach that would help us to get ready. He said that I had already done this. I immediately knew why I was so compelled to write the Army of the Dawn books, and I was told to put everything else I was working on aside until they were finished. These books are the result of the many years I spent studying military history, and they contain the practical aspects of what it will take for the church to become the army we are called to be.
This may seem like a shameless plug for my books, but I can’t be concerned about that. We are in desperate need of becoming all that we have been called to be as His people. Those books are even more prophetic than I realized. They can help us become the spiritual army we are called to be. You can find them in many bookstores or order them directly from our bookstore website at store.morningstarministries.org.
The peace of God is one of our main weapons for us to be the spiritual army we are called to be. Love, truth, justice, and all of the other characteristics the citizens of the kingdom of God are called to have are our “divinely powerful weapons.” To use all of these effectively, we must add to them the characteristics of the military demeanor we’re called to have, such as training (not just teaching), organization that enables coordinated action, strategic thinking, clear objectives, etc. Because these are all covered in the Army of the Dawn books, I will not go any deeper here, but we must move resolutely in this direction as the body of Christ to be prepared for these times in order to prevail in them and not be overcome.
As The Great Commission is to disciple all nations, not just individuals, we must understand and engage in doing this. To understand how we are to do this with the American Republic, we must start with understanding the foundations that were laid and build upon them properly.
spent years studying our nation’s history with one Scripture as my inspiration and motive, Psalm 90:16-17:
Let Your work appear to Your servants and Your majesty to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; and confirm for us the work of our hands; yes, confirm the work of our hands.
I began my study in order to see the work of The Lord in the founding, building, and vision of our nation. It was not hard to find. When I saw it, I then sought The Lord’s favor to confirm the work that we are called to do to see our national destiny fulfilled. As we are told in Proverbs 4:18, “The path of the righteous (or the right path) is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until the full day.” The path I walked seeking to find and understand our divine purpose as a nation was like this. It began with a few lights that got brighter as I proceeded. You may not have the time I had to do this research, but if you do what you can and ask The Lord to be your Guide, He will. The payoff is to be able to move with clarity and boldness to fulfill our own purpose in this.
