PRAYER JOURNAL - PRAY FOR REVIVAL WITHIN THE NATIVE & AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULATION IN FLORIDA!
HOLY SPIRIT INSTRUCTED ME TO SEEK THE LORD CONCERNING THIS PICTURE I TOOK OF A NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN, AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE, A WHITE FEMALE AND PRAYING HANDS OVER TAMPA, FLORIDA. I FELT THE EMOTION OF THIS PERIOD AS I TYPED UP THIS BLOG POST 馃槶馃槶馃槶馃槶馃槶馃槶馃槶
READ ALL THE WAY TO THE END. OMGOSH!!!
8:26 am 5/24/26
LORD WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY ABOUT THIS PICTURE?
For too long My people have been downtrodden and abused by the enemy and his systems. Particularly in the Native American Indian and African American populations. Even within their ranks is a remnant of My believers who have prayed and prayed and prayed. Some have given their all, including their lives, for the cause of freedom. Well NOW IS THE TIME. I have come to share the good news and to set the captives free. To proclaim liberty to the captives. You have endured weeping and sorrow but joy comes in the morning. My Spirit brings peace, joy and freedom. Vengeance is Mine and I will repay. Recompense is here. Restoration is now. No more division over race. No more poverty. No more fatherless children. No more are you second class citizens. The last shall be first! I have heard your cries and collected every tear. I have recorded in my books every injustice. And now .. for those who will return to Me and walk in My ways, great is your reward. More than you can think or imagine. It will feel like a dream. Shalom My children. A NEW DAY HAS DAWNED IN AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL! Your Heavenly Father
MESSAGE STARTED AT 8:26 馃憞馃徎
MIRROR IS DEUTERONOMY 26:8 AMP “And the Egyptians treated us badly and oppressed us, and imposed hard labor on us. Then we cried out to the Lord, the God of our fathers for help, and He heard our voice and saw our suffering and our labor and our [cruel] oppression; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with great terror [suffered by the Egyptians] and with signs and with wonders; and He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.”
MIRROR IS ISAIAH 26:8 AMP (including 1-21) “In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; He sets up salvation as walls and ramparts. “Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, The one that remains faithful and trustworthy. “You will keep in perfect and constant peace the one whose mind is steadfast [that is, committed and focused on You—in both inclination and character], Because he trusts and takes refuge in You [with hope and confident expectation]. “Trust [confidently] in the Lord forever [He is your fortress, your shield, your banner], For the Lord God is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages]. “For He has thrown down the [arrogant] ones who dwell on high, the lofty and inaccessible city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He hurls it to the dust. “The foot will trample it, Even the feet of the suffering, and the steps of the helpless.” ¶The way of the righteous [those in right-standing with God—living in moral and spiritual integrity] is smooth and level; O Upright One, make a level path for the just and righteous. Indeed, in the path of Your judgments, O Lord, We have waited expectantly for You; Your name, even Your memory, is the desire and deep longing of our souls. In the night my soul longs for You [O Lord], Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently; For [only] when Your judgments are experienced on the earth Will the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. Though the wicked is shown compassion and favor, He does not learn righteousness; In the land of uprightness he deals unjustly, And refuses to see the majesty of the Lord. ¶Though Your hand is lifted up [to strike], O Lord, the wicked do not see it. Let them see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame; Indeed, let the fire reserved for Your enemies consume them. Lord, You will establish peace for us, Since You have also performed for us all that we have done. O Lord our God, other masters besides You have ruled over us; But through You alone we confess Your name. The [wicked] dead will not live [again], the spirits of the dead will not rise and return; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have wiped out every memory of them [every trace of them]. You have increased the nation, O Lord; You have increased the nation, You are glorified; You have extended all the borders of the land. O Lord, they sought You in distress; They managed only a prayerful whisper When Your discipline was upon them. As a woman with child approaches the time to give birth, She is in pain and struggles and cries out in her labor, So we were before You, O Lord. We have been with child, we have twisted and struggled in labor; We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind. We could not accomplish salvation for the earth, Nor were inhabitants of the world born. Your dead will live; Their dead bodies will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy! For your dew is a dew of [celestial] light [heavenly, supernatural], And the earth will give birth to the spirits of the dead. [Ezek 37:11, 12] ¶Come, my people, enter your chambers And shut your doors behind you; Hide for a little while Until the [Lord’s] wrath is past. Listen carefully, the Lord is about to come out of His [heavenly] place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their wickedness [their sin, their injustice, their wrongdoing]; The earth will reveal the [innocent] blood shed upon her And will no longer cover her slain.”
MESSAGE ENDED AT 8:39
MIRROR IS EZEKIEL 39:8 AMP “Behold, it is coming and it will be done,” says the Lord God. “That is the day of which I have spoken.”
1 KINGS 8:39 AMP (including 38-40) “whatever prayer or pleading is made by any individual, or by Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his hands out toward this house; then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and give to each according to his ways, whose heart (mind) You know, for You and You alone know the hearts of all the children of men, so that they may fear You [with reverence and awe] all the days that they live in the land which You have given to our fathers.” REFERRING TO THE PRAYING HANDS!!!
LUKE 8:39 AMP “Return home and tell [about] all the great things God has done for you.” So the man went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.”
I ALSO LOOKED UP THE HEBREW MEANING OF 839. FINANCIAL SLAVERY AND POVERTY ARE ENDING FOR THESE PEOPLE!
Hebrew 839. ashur or ashurim 讗ֲ砖ֻׁ专
Meaning: boxwood, the cedar tree or some other light elastic wood
Ezekiel catalogs Tyre’s materials to heighten the shock of her downfall.
God’s Control of Nations and Trade: Ezekiel presents Yahweh as Lord over seas, forests, and markets alike. Whether boxwood in Tyre or cedars in Lebanon, every resource ultimately serves His purposes (Psalm 24:1).
Foreshadowing the New Jerusalem: The lament for Tyre contrasts with the everlasting city whose builders are “the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb” (Revelation 21:22). Earthly commerce fails; the Kingdom endures.
I LOOKED UP THE HEBREW MEANING OF 909
909. badad 讘ָּ讚讚
Meaning: to divide
Jesus “suffered outside the gate” (Hebrews 13:12), embodying the ultimate 讘ָּ讚讚 as He bore sin’s reproach. The leper’s exclusion anticipates His substitutionary isolation; the psalmist’s lonely vigil echoes His Gethsemane anguish. By entering our separation, Christ reconciles us to God and restores fellowship (Ephesians 2:13).
Scripture closes with the promise of a New Jerusalem where “the dwelling place of God is with man” (Revelation 21:3). In that consummation 讘ָּ讚讚 is forever abolished; separation gives way to perfect communion, fulfilling the redemptive arc initiated amid the camp of Israel.
NEHEMIAH 9:9-11 AMP “You saw our fathers’ affliction in Egypt, And You heard their cry by the Red Sea (Sea of Reeds). Then You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, Against all his servants and all the people of his land; For You knew that they behaved arrogantly toward them (the Israelites), And You made a name for Yourself, as it is to this day. You divided the sea before them, So that they passed through the midst of the sea on dry land; You hurled their pursuers into the depths, Like a stone into mighty and raging waters.”
DEUTERONOMY 9:9-11 AMP “When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water. The Lord gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God; and on them were written all the words which the Lord had spoken to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. It came about at the end of forty days and forty nights that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.”
PSALM 9:9-11 AMP “The Lord also will be a refuge and a stronghold for the oppressed, A refuge in times of trouble; And those who know Your name [who have experienced Your precious mercy] will put their confident trust in You, For You, O Lord, have not abandoned those who seek You. [Ps 42:1] ¶Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion; Declare among the peoples His [great and wondrous] deeds.”
In 1867, Florida American Indian history was defined by the survival and adaptation of the Seminole and Miccosukee people. After the Seminole Wars ended in 1858 without a formal surrender treaty, approximately 200–300 Native Americans remained in hiding within the isolated swamps and hammocks of the Everglades.
The late 1860s marked a transition period where isolated Seminole bands began to cautiously emerge from the swamps. They utilized established trading posts along the developing Florida frontier (such as Fort Myers, Miami, and Tampa) to trade animal hides for European tools and ammunition.
In 1967, Tampa’s Black community was centered around "The Scrub," a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown. Its commercial and cultural hub was Central Avenue, a bustling district known as the "Harlem of the South". Deeply rooted economic and racial disparities ultimately sparked a major civil uprising that transformed the area.
The June 1967 uprisings altered the trajectory of the community through several key factors:
INTERESTING THIS WAS JUNE AS THAT IS THE 6th MONTH AND THE TIMESTAMP ON THE PHOTO WAS 6:00. 馃憖馃憖馃憖
The Catalyst: On June 11, 1967, a white Tampa police officer shot and killed Martin Chambers, an unarmed 19-year-old Black man who was fleeing the scene of a burglary.
THE IMAGE THE LORD REVEALED IN THE SKY WAS OF MARTIN DECEASED. 馃槶馃槶馃槶
The Unrest: News of the shooting triggered three nights of civil disturbances. Protesters and rioters specifically targeted white-owned businesses. The unrest resulted in heavy property damage, with several buildings destroyed along the Central Avenue corridor.
The "White Hats": Amid the tension, a group of Black teenagers and community organizers formed a patrol known as the “White Hats”. Wearing police-issued helmets, they successfully negotiated with community members to de-escalate violence and restore calm to the streets.
Long-Term Impact: The devastation to the Central Avenue Business District accelerated the decline of this historic area. In the following decades, urban renewal projects, the construction of Interstate 4, and systemic redlining further transformed the physical landscape of the original neighborhood.
I SHARED WITH MY SISTER IN CHRIST SARA AND SHE COULD NOT STOP THINKING ABOUT THIS PHOTO UNTIL SHE DUG FURTHER.
From Sara:
Found this VERY interesting .. Escaped slaves became “black seminoles” in Tampa. 馃挄
The Seminole tribes were initially Muskogee and Creek who escaped to Florida and made their own communities.
Harriet Bedell (March 19, 1875 – January 8, 1969) was an influential Episcopal deaconess, missionary, nurse, teacher, and advocate for Indigenous peoples in the United States. She is honored as a saint in the Episcopal Church with a feast day on January 8.
SHE IS THE WOMAN IN THE PHOTO!!!!!
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| Deaconess Bedell with a medicine man and Bobby Jim Tiger outside the Seminole mission, c. 1945 |
Missionary Work:
• Oklahoma (1907–1916/17): She began her missionary career at Whirlwind Mission among the Cheyenne (Southern Tsitsistas/Suhtai). Working alongside deacon David Pendleton Oakerhater (a Cheyenne convert), she provided Christian education, rudimentary medical care, and support for women and children. She learned to respect Cheyenne culture, was adopted into the tribe, and given the name Vicsehia (“Bird Woman”). She developed tuberculosis during this period and recovered in Colorado. en.wikipedia.org
• Alaska (1916–1931): Transferred by the Board of Missions, she served in remote areas like Stevens Village (Athabascan people) and helped establish or support an Episcopal boarding school in Tanana. She worked largely alone in harsh conditions, teaching, nursing, and ministering. In 1922, she was formally set apart as a deaconess in Portland, Oregon. Budget cuts during the Great Depression forced the school’s closure despite her fundraising efforts in New York.
• Florida (1932–1960s): While fundraising, she visited Seminole (Mikasuki) communities in the Everglades and revitalized the Glade Cross Mission in Everglades City (originally established in 1898). She also founded the Mission of Our Savior in Collier City (later moved). She lived and worked there for decades, serving Indigenous people, whites, and African Americans.
Her longest and perhaps most transformative ministry was with the Seminole. The Mikasuki gave her the name Inkoshopie (“Woman Who Prays”). She promoted economic self-sufficiency by encouraging women to revive traditional crafts like basket-weaving, doll-making, and patchwork clothing designs, helping them sell these goods to tourists and stores. This provided income, preserved cultural practices, and built self-respect. She also offered health care, education, and spiritual ministry while advocating against exploitative practices (such as mislabeled imported goods).
THE PRAYING HANDS IN THE PHOTO!!!!!!
Officially retired at age 72 (around 1947), Bedell continued her work with support from churches like St. Stephen’s in Coconut Grove. In 1947, she gave the invocation at President Harry S. Truman’s dedication of Everglades National Park. Hurricane Donna in 1960 destroyed her home and the Glade Cross Mission; afterward, she moved to the Bishop Gray Inn in Davenport, Florida, where she remained active in recruiting missionaries, teaching Sunday school, and helping in the infirmary until her death at age 93.
She was a prolific writer for the Episcopal mission periodical The Spirit of Missions. Her legacy includes recognition as a “Great Floridian,” with a plaque in Everglades City. The Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida and the wider Episcopal Church (USA, added in 2009) honor her annually on January 8. Her photographs and papers are preserved in collections such as the Florida Memory project and the Smithsonian.
Bedell exemplified dedicated, culturally sensitive mission work focused on holistic ministry—spiritual, medical, educational, and economic—across challenging frontiers for over six decades.
Taken from en.wikipedia.org
It’s HER!!!! They called her “the woman who prays!!!” 馃グ馃馃グ
I’m so shocked right now!! With all the stuff happening in the Everglades right now, the Lord is showing the revival roots to anchor on!!
THE EVERGLADES ARE CURRENTLY BURNING 馃敟馃敟馃敟馃敟馃敟馃敟馃敟
The Lakeland Revival or Florida Healing Outpouring was a Christian revival which began on April 2, 2008, when Evangelist Todd Bentley of Fresh Fire Ministries was invited to Ignited Church in Lakeland, Florida, by Pastor Stephen Strader. Bentley was originally invited to be in Lakeland for only five days but remained there for over six months. Through its airing on GOD TV, the revival became well known by Pentecostals and charismatics worldwide. By May 29, Bentley’s ministry estimated that over 140,000 people from over 40 nations had visited, and 1.2 million had watched via the Internet. By June 30, over 400,000 people from over 100 nations had attended.
In June 2008, Nightline carried out an investigative report on Bentley. Some days after the broadcast, Fresh Fire Ministries released a statement announcing that Bentley was taking time off “to refresh and to rest” and their Lakeland broadcasts on GOD TV were put on hold.[4] One week later, GOD TV announced Bentley would resume the Lakeland meetings and the broadcasts continued. Bentley’s and Fresh Fire’s leadership of the revival ended on August 11, but the revival continued until the last service on October 12, 2008, at Ignited Church.
The Florida Outpouring was in many ways similar to revivals that occurred in the 1990s, notably the Toronto Blessing in Canada and the Brownsville Revival in Pensacola, Florida. However, the Lakeland Revival had a greater focus on divine healing along with a call to evangelism, was much shorter than these two revivals, and was nearly inseparable from Bentley. The revival displayed many “ecstatic manifestations” and some participants claimed “esoteric experiences”, such as divinely inspired visions and prophecies. In addition to claims of numerous miraculous healings, there were at least 30 claims to cases of resurrection of the dead.
Che Ahn & Chuck Pierce were there.
OMGOSH this was called the Fresh Fire Revival!! I wore my Fresh Fire shirt to the Sean Feucht worship in our photos (at the REDEDICATION OF AMERICA TO GOD)!!! And yesterday Church International spoke of a Fresh Fire in the worship at the end!!! Eugene, pastor & prophet mentioned it. 馃く
WE COULDN'T FIND A DEFINITE MATCH FOR THE INDIAN SHOWN IN THE PHOTO. HE APPEARS TO BE A SEMINOLE INDIAN. MAYBE BOBBY JIM TIGER?
THANK YOU DEBRA FOR TAKING THE PERFECT PHOTO AS WE DROVE HOME FROM THE REDEDICATION OF AMERICA TO GOD!! AND THANK YOU SARA FOR CONTINUING TO DIG AS THE HOLY SPIRIT LED!
PRAYER POINTS:
I think we need to remind the Land Water and Air of the revival roots. Harriett was accepted and named by that community. We can agree with her prayers from the Great Cloud of Witnesses (through Jesus alone).
WHEN I SAVED THE IMAGE OF THESE 3 FROM THE CLOUD OF WITNESSES TO MY COMPUTER, THE IMAGE NUMBER WAS 216. I LOOKED UP THE HEBREW MEANING.
216. or 讗讜ֹ专
Hebrew meaning: light, lightning, lights, broad, dawn, daylight, early morning, illumination, (concretely) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
The noun 讗讜ֹ专 (’么r) occurs about 122 times, ranging from the primeval command that launched creation to prophetic visions of the coming Kingdom.
Light and Justice in Social Order: Job’s former days were marked by divine luminosity: “His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through darkness” (Job 29:3). Conversely, Isaiah 5:20 warns of moral inversion: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness.” 讗讜ֹ专 functions as a moral plumb line; any distortion invites judgment (Amos 5:18–20).
Prophetic Eschatology and Messianic Fulfillment: Isaiah magnifies 讗讜ֹ专 as messianic hope. “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light” (Isaiah 9:2). The Servant is appointed “as a light for the nations” (Isaiah 42:6), and Zion is summoned: “Arise, shine, for your light has come” (Isaiah 60:1). These texts anticipate a dawning age in which “the LORD will be your everlasting light” (Isaiah 60:19–20). Zechariah 14:7 envisions “a unique day known only to the LORD—without day or night, but at evening there will be light,” merging cosmic and covenantal motifs into a single redemptive finale.
讗讜ֹ专 weaves through Scripture as both phenomenon and promise—visible in creation, experiential in redemption, instructional in Torah, ethical in community, and climactic in eschatology. The Old Testament’s 122 occurrences collectively affirm that every ray of true light emanates from the character and activity of the LORD, summoning His people to reflect that brightness until the day when “night will be no more” (Revelation 22:5).
BLOGGER NOTED THE TIME I STARTED THIS POST WAS 2:33. WOWWWWW. ACTS 2:33 SPEAKS OF THE OUTPOURING OF HOLY SPIRIT. THE TITLE FOR ACTS 2 IN THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE IS: THE DAY OF PENTECOST!!! THE LORD REVEALED THESE PEOPLE IN THE CLOUD OF WITNESSES 3 DAYS BEFORE PENTECOST SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!
ACTS 2:1-3 AMP When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place, and suddenly a sound came from heaven like a rushing violent wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. There appeared to them tongues resembling FIRE 馃敟馃敟馃敟, which were being distributed [among them], and they rested on each one of them [as each person received the Holy Spirit].
ACTS 2:33 AMP (including 17-33) ‘And it shall be in the last days,’ says God, ‘That I will pour out My Spirit upon all mankind; And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see [divinely prompted] visions, And your old men shall dream [divinely prompted] dreams; Even on My bond-servants, both men and women, I will in those days pour out My Spirit And they shall prophesy. ‘And I will bring about wonders in the sky above And signs (attesting miracles) on the earth below, Blood and fire and smoking vapor. ‘The sun shall be turned into darkness And the moon into blood, Before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes. ‘And it shall be that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord [invoking, adoring, and worshiping the Lord Jesus] shall be saved (rescued spiritually).’ [Joel 2:28-32] “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man accredited and pointed out and attested to you by God with [the power to perform] miracles and wonders and signs which God worked through Him in your [very] midst, just as you yourselves know— this Man, when handed over [to the Roman authorities] according to the predetermined decision and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross and put to death by the hands of lawless and godless men. But God raised Him up, releasing Him and bringing an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in death’s power. For David says of Him, ‘I saw the Lord constantly before me; For He is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken [from my state of security]. ‘Therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted exceedingly; Moreover my flesh also will live in hope [that is, will encamp in anticipation of the resurrection]; For You will not forsake me and abandon my soul to Hades (the realm of the dead), Nor let Your Holy One undergo decay [after death]. ‘You have made known to me the ways of life; You will fill me [infusing my soul] with joy with Your presence.’ [Ps 16:8-11] “Brothers, I may confidently and freely say to you regarding the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. And so, being a prophet and knowing fully that God had sworn to him with an oath that He would seat one of his descendants on his throne, [2 Sam 7:12-16; Ps 132:11] he foresaw and spoke [prophetically] of the resurrection of the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), that He was not abandoned [in death] to Hades (the realm of the dead), nor did His body undergo decay. [Ps 16:10] God raised this Jesus [bodily from the dead], and of that [fact] we are all witnesses. Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured out this [blessing] which you both see and hear.
GLORY TO GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"If you openly declare Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved.”
Romans 10:9-11
RAISE YOUR HANDS IN SUBMISSION & PRAY THIS PRAYER ALOUD TO RECEIVE ETERNAL SALVATION:
Jesus, I declare that You are the Son of God who died for my sins. I believe you were raised on the third day and are now seated at the right hand of God the Father. I confess my sins to you now & ask for Your forgiveness. I ask you to come and live in my heart & to be my Lord and Savior. Thank you for giving me Your righteousness and making me a child of God.
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