Personal & Ministry Updates:
Business Updates:
- Nehemiah Ventures:
- News: I didn’t know Demetrious has a partner, Lou
- Carol (friend) & Terry (her husband) have been meeting with Lou, but not Demetrious (they didn’t know about Demetrious) about funding their thing. She said their meetings have been going well
- I put on the breaks because I don’t know what God is saying
- Demetrious’ desire for control is gnawing at me (Peter Young says he’s concerned about the control thing too)
- Earlier this week I had the structure for both NV & e29. When I tried to redo the numbers I got a check in my spirit on it. Felt the Lord was saying I should stand true to what he told me to do. Demetrious said the Lord told him to put in a $100k, but now he has other ideas. If he heard this from the Lord, he is not being obedient.
Heavenly Father full of wisdom and grace, we ask for your guidance with Demetrious and Lou. Thank you for reminding us of the importance of humility. Help your servants be obedience to your leading. We pray for your favor over this situation. Send your angels out to prepare the way. Lead John in your will; show him exactly what next step you desire him to take. Thank you for speaking clearly to him wit h the check in his spirit about the structure of NV & e29 – in Jesus’ name we pray each of these businesses bring honor and glory to your name through your servants!
- RockPile: things are rocking and rolling
- Content and Blog: Lots of work. I write about things I know nothing about – I have no background in them. I need an extra measure from the Lord to help me put things together. I used to write more about businesses selling to consumers, now it’s more B2B.
Lord, thank you for equipping Laura for this new area in her writing. We know you have brought her into this new season for your purposes and we praise you for the gift of writing you have given her. For your glory, give her supernatural knowledge as she writes. We praise you in Jesus’ name!
Prayer Requests:
John:
- I would like a good relationship with my son. I fight a lot with the devil. I need to learn to love him where he’s at. Pray a visitation and encounter. Vicki: I’m sensing he is working through a disconnect related to God. He has heard God is one thing, but that’s not the way he appears to be in the natural (related to provision). The Lord is helping him work through this. He has a relationship with the Lord; it’s just private right now.
- Wisdom and discernment on what God is doing with Demetrious and Lou
Father, we thank you that you are speaking in the midst of the business situation. We pray that speaking or clarity will be given with wisdom and a love of Christ, and with humility and honesty. We ask that your Spirit in the midst of all of the communication and that there be real clarity in all of this .
Father we praise you for knowing how best to minister to each member of this family. Open every heart, ear and perception. Let everybody give each other more room/space for their love of Christ. We believe there is a conquering and success in both the family and business that you have set in your heart for them. We praise you for the help you send when we ask for it from you. Thank you for setting your warring angels around the Stein family. Thank you for protecting their thoughts and actions in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Ivan: John a couple weeks ago you were asking if someone had a pain in their left side. At the time I said, ‘”No.” But, I remember that I did because I usually ignore it. As I thought back I did have a bit of pain on the left side. You did get a word right with that.
John: Has it bothered you since then?
Ivan: No, only a couple hours that day.
Homework (Focus on God’s Will):
Spiritual Protection:
Prophetic Encouragement:
From Vicki:
John:
The Lord was again showing me that you are to speak scripture out loud because he is ready to do it. He gave me Jeremiah 1:12 as a reminder:
Jeremiah 1:12 (NKJV)
12 Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word.”
The other scriptures I received for you are:
Ephesians 4:29 (NKJV)
29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. (You are the ‘hearer’ God is talking about. Edify yourself by speaking his words back to him.)
1 Peter 2:5 (NKJV)
5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:30 (NKJV)
30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—
Ephesians 1:3 (NKJV)
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
Ephesians 2:18 (NKJV)
18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
Ephesians 3:12 (NKJV)
12 in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him.
What I was sensed while I was receiving these scriptures was that you have not lost your anointing. It is still there. Do not speak the words that you have lost your anointing – it becomes a word curse. Speak the truth of who you are in the Lord. Find scriptures that fortify the fact that you are anointed and can hear his voice and do receive prophetic insights from him and that it is his desire for you to know his will.
Laura:
Psalm 37:4 (NKJV)
4 Delight yourself also in the Lord,
And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Philippians 2:13 (NKJV)
13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
Jordan:
Ephesians 2:10 (NKJV)
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Colossians 3:3 (NKJV)
3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Jack:
Ephesians 2:10 (NKJV)
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Romans 11:29 (NKJV)
29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Nehemiah 8:10 (NKJV)
10 Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
From Ivan:
Lord, thank you for John as a visionary as someone who walks in the gifts of the spirit.
Spent a lot of time praying in the Spirit.
Prayer for deepening his personal relationship with the Lord and his wife.
Thanking the Lord for the praise report that all his taxes were paid. Thanking the Lord for the doors of opportunities to open up with new businesses.
Thank you for the continue contact with RockPile and Caliber. Lord, anoint the work and the contact with these businesses. Anoint John as he continues to meet with the people who have opened the door for these contacts.
There is a picture of John pulling a slingshot way back with a stone in it. It is a picture of David and Goliath. The Lord is saying that his battles are not won by might nor power but by the Spirit of the Lord. David faced the enemy, overcame, and was rewarded by the King. This is what is on the way for John. You are overcoming and you will be rewarded for that.
Father give him the right timing, income, and clarity of structure to begin to pursue the Nehemiah Ventures business/ministry that he wants to pursue.
A prophetic phrase from literature. “I came, I saw, I conquered.” –Julius Caesar