Stand up and be counted

Wake up, you sleepy prophets.  Wake up, speak out and bring your leadership to the effort to take back our world.


For many of us, to accept our own self-determination and freedom will ask us to dig deeply within for the courage to speak out and step out.  We will have to face many dragons as we struggle for our own freedom.


You have a real leader, a real hero to help you and equip you for the battle ahead.  Take heart and find the courage to look at everything with new eyes.


You are being called to stand up, take your sword of wisdom and have a voice.


Those prison guards of our lives who once believed us at our own self-imposed exiles, which we also believed we should endure, will not take kindly to our new voice.  We may have deceived ourselves into believing and allowing the circumstances around us to occur because we had been taught to be silent and submit to authority - even the well meaning authority of the church and government.  


We may have built castles around our lives and now realize those castles are more like prisons of the spirit, locking us in, rather than opening us into the beautiful green pastures for which we now long.  These are the times we've been waiting for and these times call for a courage we doubt we have but which we need and yet know we do have.  


The world needs your courage.  The world needs your voice and your strong stance for the freedom and dignity of every soul alive. Every new step of our lives, our real lives, call us to pray for courage until we are taller than those systems and principalities which we had allowed to silence and control us.  Heaven will help you as you seek for the strength and the courage to be free to stand up and be counted among the new leaders God is calling us to free our world from the powers of darkness and ignorance.