What is next for 10000?

Here I am, sitting opposite the beach on the Sunshine Coast and as I do, I choose to be fully aware of how very blessed I am.  The last couple of days I have been on my own, except for the gentle presence of the Holy Spirit.  Peter is in the Solomon Islands preaching the Good News and I have taken the moment to stop and be!  The first day I settled in at a coffee shop and decides to do like the scripture and remember the goodness of God to me.  As I began to write I actually amazed myself at how many season I have enjoyed (mostly) in just 5 decades.  The people I have loved and the amazing experiences God has granted to me.  I have enjoyed times of mothering and holidaying, ministry, ecstasy and grief, rare and holy friendships and deep rejection.  In my writings were travels to distant lands, seen the power of God work phenomena and cried bucket-loads of tears in a vain attempt to see a miracle.  The plans of God being outworked are more readily seen in retrospect and there are things that make perfect sense to me that I bumbled through in real time.  It teaches me to just trust … walk confidently forward knowing who holds the future.  There are other times that no matter how much time passes, they just do not get any clearer.

One testimony to this is the mandate to ‘Call up 10000 Warriors’.  When God spoke to me, a spirit voice that picked up the words of Judges 4:9 so profoundly that I answered audibly and almost instantly knew what to do.  I thought at first this campaign would be a ‘one off’ and after the 52 days of prayer, I presumed I would go back to my ordinary life pastoring GNC.  As the call went out, other cities heard the mandate that we are ambassadors of Heaven and Jesus Himself invited us to pray, ‘On earth as it is in Heaven’, which was a great joy to me to see the people of God across this nation rise up and release the Light of the Gospel.  However, God had recently given me a 3 year promise and I slowly realized that these ideas were related and after the initial campaign I knew I had to march on.  Each of these years, I walked the perimeter of my city in prayer, called any willing residents to pray for 10 minutes daily during the annual campaign, at the end of which, we held a city-wide prayer meeting.  I would go an pray on the steps of churches, with pastors in their offices and in my room.  What a wonderful time, and there are too many divine moments to recount here but in May of 2012 exactly 3 years from that ‘moment’, my city, Logan had a solid Christian legacy set in place on which the purposes of God can alight.  We prayed relentlessly for Peace, Prosperity and the Power of God to rule in Logan, which is now outstripping other cities in economics, 9% economic growth as compared to 3% statewide.  Contrary to media reports, Logan is not the troubled spot they like to report and in fact, the community spirit here is enviable, despite being more multi-cultured than almost anywhere else in this country.  People have been positioned and reinstated in places of influence and power through circumstances that required the intervention of a Supernatural God to make happen.  The Church in this city has rallied over and over again and is preparing the way continually for the glory of the Lord to come in.  I thank God for allowing me, 10000 and many others to be a part of what He is establishing, here in our nation.  Praise His beautiful name.

I now feel released from the specifics of this assignment and now see my role as one who, ‘calls up the warrior spirit in every believer’ and to this end have developed a ‘School of the Warrior’, which is 10 weeks of equipping, teaching and releasing the power of God in you the believer.  Our first School begins in the second week of October.  Also we have begun a conference called Say So, which is held in June/July each year.  Its purpose is to equip the Body to pray, Your Kingdom Come, based on the inherent power that we carry as sons and daughter together of the King of Heaven. 

When you put your hand up to Follow Jesus, it is really Him choosing you, not because you are clever but because He is able to keep you and loves to invite you into the wonder of His abundant life.

I always say to people, if you want to do something really radical, PRAY.  The reason I call it radical is because hardly anyone actually does it.  I still encourage you to pray daily for anything and everything that God prompts you to but for what it is worth, it has been a great tool to set aside 10 minutes each and every day to specifically pray for His Kingdom to come to the ever increasing circles of our homes, churches, communities, cities and then to the great nation.

I welcome you into this new season and like the Lord said to Joshua, follow closely, stay in my Presence, because this is not familiar territory.

Josh 3:3

“When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the Levitical priests carrying it, you are to move out from your positions and follow it.  Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before.”

Talk again soon, Julie

SAY SO - 2013

Last Year we had an awesome time at our very first Prayer Conference - "Say So"

It is designed to stir up the Warrior in you and remind you that the many promises you carry are eternal and that you need to keep on 'Saying So'  It will be a time of equipping you for the life assignment that God has given and to fully enjoy His presence in some fresh ways.  This note is a date-claimer for anyone in or around South East Qld on the last weekend in June who would like to soak up some Revival with some brothers and sisters. Holy Spirit inspired worship, 48 hours of fellowship, the Word of the Lord and the finale being a 10000 warrior prayer meet for our nation with a Dramatic Tribute to Revival that will make you believe afresh in all He has promised you.

Say So is free to attend and we encourage you to check out www.10000warriors.com or our Face Book page, 10000 Warriors or call us on 0478 197 092 for more information.  Looking forward to seeing you there!  DETAILS BELOW

Yours for Revival,

Julie Blasé & the 10W Team.

tenthousandwarriors.blogspot.com

WHERE:  The Spot, 61 Sandstone Place, Parkinson

WHEN:   June the 29th & 30th.

Saturday 4 sessions

9am     Visions happen

11am   Word - Say So

2pm     Communion & Healing

6pm     Believing to See

Sunday 3 sessions

9am    Worship & Word - Revival Happens

11am  For A New Generation of Elijahs
2pm  Testimonies

6pm    Tribute to Revival & Celebration not to be missed!!!

With Christ in the School of Prayer!

A few months ago I found this ratty old book with its cover torn off and my fathers name handwritten in the front.  Because I hardly knew my Dad but had heard that he was a man of God who desired to see the Spirit poured out, I decided to read the book as a way to get some insight into my fathers world at that time.  Well the book was called, “With Christ in the School of Prayer”, its pages were yellow and the old English font and language was a challenge, but I ploughed through it, feeling my spirit quicken to the time tested truth he penned.  As I read, I thought about my own father reading these words 3 decades earlier and I was so inspired that I thought, ‘other people should be able to read it.’  I had never heard of Andrew Murray but thought his words were so profound that I should blog the chapters so others could enjoy the revelation they offered.  I tried to lose some of the old English and not to further weaken the structure of the ratty old book as I copied the first few chapter from the tiny size 8 font and was enjoying reading it through again as I went. 

Then, another day while wandering around Koorong, I noticed an Andrew Murray book, in facts dozens of them and realized that this man was not a ‘little known’ teacher of the word but an author who needs absolutely no introduction from me.  Hence I have ceased to copy that tired little book but recommend his work to anyone who wants to see their prayers answered.  If you are not happy to pray for the sake of it, get into Koorong and buy, “With Christ in the School of Prayer”, by Andrew Murray - $8 and start praying!  Thanks Dad

10 prays in 10 days - Please join in the prayer ...

Hello Warrior.  Wherever you find yourself, I hope you are well.

This is an important letter to ask for your help for just ten (10) days. 

At 10000 we believe that now is the time of the Lords Favour.  Binding up the powers of darkness is our bread, and to release the intentions of God on the earth is our mandate.  Your Kingdom come…

Australia has a suicide crisis.  40 Australians every week, succeed at killing themselves.  Here in Logan, recently, 5 boys and 2 parents in just 7 weeks.  I take this very personally and ask the Lord to wake us up to the cry of humanity.  Enemy: violence versus the promise of Peace.

Queensland is a massive state and while some of us have cleaned up after our earlier floods, others are being suffocated due to the lack of rain.  Our farmers need our help … therefore prophesy to the wind, to the rain and watch what the Lord can do. 

Enemy: poverty versus the promise of Prosperity.

FOR OUR CHURCHES to arise and shine, to shake off the apathy and insidious and intoxicating influence of ‘thinking we have need of nothing’, when in fact we are naked and blind. 

Enemy: sleepiness versus the promise of Power from on High.

From today until Pentecost Sunday ( May 19) is ten days.

10 minute prays for just 10 days.

Come on, “We are better, together”.  Jeremiah was told to pray for the peace and prosperity of the city in which he lived, for its fate determines yours.  As the church, our city is our responsibility.  This nation is ours for the asking. 

Download the prayer, ‘For Our Cities’ from 10000warriors.com and take ten minutes everyday to pray … Your Kingdom Come.

Thanking you and may you reap as you sow into the realm of FAITH.

Yours for a widespread move of God that cannot be ignored,

Julie Blasé and the 10W team.

Something Xtra FOR THE HUNGRY  -  Read 2 Chronicles 6

The great promise of 2 Chronicles 7:14 “If my people ….” Comes on the back of 42 verses of asking.  In chapter 6, Solomon intercedes for his people and suggests to God a plan for their redemption.   Then, what a gracious God we serve, in response to this great apostolic cry, God responds with … 7:14 …  “If my people…”  Enjoy! 

SEVEN - The Ultimate Gift

Lesson 7     If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father, give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him.   Luke 11:13

In the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord had already said ‘How Much More.’  Here in Luke, where He repeats the question, there is a difference.  Instead of speaking as then, of giving good gifts, He says, “How much more shall the Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit?”

He teaches us that the chief and the best of these gifts is the Holy Spirit, or rather, that in this gift all others are comprised.  The Holy Spirit is the first of the Father’s gifts, and the one He delights most to bestow.  The Holy Spirit is therefore the gift we ought first to seek.  The unspeakable worth of this gift we can easily understand.  Jesus spoke of the Spirit as ‘the promise of the Father’.  The one promise in which God’s fatherhood revealed itself.  The best gift a good and wise Father can bestow on a child on earth is His own Spirit.  This is the great object of a Father in education, to reproduce in His child his own disposition and character.  If the child is to know and understand his Father, if, as he grows up, he is to enter into all His will and plans; if he is to have his highest joy in the Father, and the Father in him, he must be of one mind and spirit with him.  And so it is impossible to conceive of God giving any higher gift on his child than this, His own Spirit. 

God is what He is through His Spirit; the Spirit is the very life of God.  Just think what it means God giving His own Spirit to His child on earth or was not this the glory of Jesus as a Son upon earth, that the Spirit of the Father was in Him?  At His baptism in Jordan, the 2 were united, the voice, proclaiming Him the beloved Son, and the Spirit, descending upon Him.  And so the apostle says of us, ‘because you were sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying Abba Father.’ 

A king seeks in the whole education of his son to call forth in him a kingly spirit.  Our Father in heaven desires to educate us as His children for the holy, heavenly life in which He dwells, and for this He gives us, from the depths of His heart, His own Spirit.  It was the whole aim of Jesus, after having made atonement with His own blood, that He entered for us into God’s presence, that He might obtain for us, and send down to dwell in us, the Holy Spirit.  As the Spirit of the Father and of the Son, the whole life and love of the Father and the Son are in Him; and, coming down to us, He lifts us up into their fellowship.  As Spirit of the Father, He sheds abroad the Father’s love with which He loves the Son, in our hearts, and teaches us to live in it.  As Spirit of the Son, He breathes in us the childlike liberty, and devotion, and obedience with which the Son lived on the earth.  The Father can bestow no higher or more wonderful gift than this; His own Holy Spirit, the spirit of Sonship.  This truth naturally suggests the thought that this first and chief gift of God, must be the first and chief object of all prayer.  For every thought of the spiritual life this is the one thing that is needful, the Holy Spirit.  All the fullness is in Jesus; the fullness of grace and truth, out of which we receive grace for grace.  The Holy Spirit is the appointed giver, whose special work it is to make Jesus and all there is in Him, ours. A personal appropriation of Grace in blessed experience.  He is the Spirit of life in Christ; as wonderful as the life is, so wonderful is the provision by which such an agent is provided to communicate it to us.  If we but yield ourselves entirely to the disposal of the Spirit, and let Him have his way with us, He will manifest the life of Christ in us.  He will do this with a divine power, maintaining the life of Christ in us in uninterrupted continuity.  Surely, if there is one prayer that should draw us to the Fathers throne and should keep us there, it is this; for the Holy Spirit whom we as children have received, to stream into us and out from us in greater fullness. 

In the variety of the gifts that the Spirit has to dispense, He meets the believer’s every need.  Just think of the names He bears.  The Spirit of Grace, to reveal and impart all there is in Jesus.  The Spirit of Faith, teaching us to begin and go on and increase in ever believing.  The Spirit of adoption and assurance, who witnesses that we are God’s children, and inspires the confiding and confident Abba, Father!  The Spirit of Truth, to lead into all truth and to make each Word of God ours, in deed and in truth.  The Spirit of Prayer, through whom we speak with the Father; prayer that must be heard.  The Spirit that convicts, to search the heart and convince of sin.  The Spirit of holiness, manifesting and communicating the Father’s holy presence within us.  The Spirit of Power, through whom we are strong, to testify boldly and work effectually in the Father’s service.  The Spirit of Glory, the pledge of our inheritance, the preparation and the foretaste of the Glory to come.  Surely the child of God needs but one thing, to be able really to live as a child: it is to be filled with His Spirit. 

And now, the lesson Jesus teaches us today in His school is this; that the Father is longing to give Him to us, if we will but ask in childlike dependence on what He says; “if you know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall Your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him.” 

In the Words of God promise, “I will pour out my Spirit abundantly”; and of His command; “Be filled with the Spirit”.  We have the measure of what God is ready to give, and what we may obtain.  As God’s children, we have already received the Spirit.  But we still need to ask and pray for His special gifts and operations as we require them.  And not only this, but for Himself to take complete possession; for His unceasing momentary guidance.  Just as the branch, already filled with the sap of the vine, is ever crying for the continued and increasing flow of that sap, that it may bring its fruit to perfection, so the believer, rejoicing in the possession of the Spirit, ever thirsts and cries for more.  And what the great Teacher would have us learn is, that nothing less than God’s promise and Gods’ command may be the measure of our expectation and our prayer; we must be filled abundantly.  He would have us ask with the assurance that the wonderful, ‘how much more’, of the Fathers love is the pledge that, when we ask, we do most certainly receive. 

Let us now believe this.  As we pray to be filled with the Spirit, let us not seek for the answer in our feelings.  All spiritual blessings must be received, that is, accepted and taken in faith.  Let me believe, the Father gives the Holy Spirit to His praying child.  Even now, while I pray, I must say in faith; I have what I ask, the fullness of the Spirit is mine.  Let us continue steadfast in this faith.  On the strength of God’s word, we know that we have what we ask.  Let us, with thanksgiving that we have been heard, and that we have received and taken and now hold as ours, continue steadfast in believing prayer that the blessing, which has already been given us, in which we hold in faith, may break through and fill our whole being.  It is in such believing, thanksgiving and prayer, that our soul opens up for the Spirit to take entire and undisturbed possession.  It is such prayer that not only asks and hopes, but takes and holds, that inherits the full blessing.  In all our prayer let us remember the lesson, the Saviour would teach us this day, that if there is one thing on earth that we can be sure of it is this; that the Father desires us to be filled with His Spirit, that He delights to give us His Spirit.  And when once we have learned to believe this, for ourselves, and each day to take out of the treasure we hold in heaven what liberty and power, to pray for the outpouring of the Spirit on the Church of God, on all flesh, individuals or on special efforts!  He that has once learned to know the Father in prayer for himself, learns to pray most confidently for others too.  The Father gives the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him, not least, but most, when they ask for others.

Lord Teach us to Pray

Father in Heaven, you sent your son to reveal yourself to us, the Father love, and all that the love has for us.  And He has taught us that the gift above all gifts which You would bestow in answer to prayer is, the Holy Spirit.  Oh Father, I come to You with this prayer; There is nothing I desire more than to be filled with the Holy Spirit.  The blessings He brings are so unspeakable and just what I need.  He sheds abroad the Father’s love in my heart and fills it with Yourself.  I long for this.  He breathes the mind and life of Christ in me, so that I live as He did, in and for the Fathers love.  I long for this.  He endues with power from on high for my walk and my work.  I long for this.  Oh Father, I ask You, give me this day the fullness of Your Spirit.  Father, I ask this, resting on Jesus words; “how much more the Holy Spirit.”  I do believe that You hear my prayer; I receive now what I ask.  Father, I claim and I take it; the fullness of Your Spirit is mine.  I receive the gift this day as a faith gift; in faith I reckon my Father works through His Spirit all that He has promised.  The Father delights to breath His Spirit into His waiting child as he tarries in fellowship with You.  AMEN