Reasons for Rejoicing

(Intro Video) A few days back the warfare hit me emotionally. The accusations flying about the war in Iraq, the corruption in politics, the steady drumbeat of media despair — it pressed in. Even people from other nations expect it to end badly for America.

You’ve felt it too. There’s a lot that can go wrong. There’s no voice celebrating past victories or pointing toward a positive outcome. The sky is always falling and it’s naturally discouraging for all of us.

Here’s what I heard in the Council: John, it’s the pause before the storm. I am the storm.

Isaiah 59:19 puts it this way — For He will come like a pent-up flood that the breath of the LORD drives along. The warfare we feel isn’t evidence that God is losing. It’s the stillness before a flood that no one sees coming yet.

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The Spirit Behind the News

Warfare is real. It’s not just bad news — there’s a spirit behind the news, egging on fear and doubt. It’s like a special anointing for pessimism that offers no positive alternative: Covid, climate change, civil unrest, immigration, disunity. A relentless drumbeat with no exit ramp.

It’s easy to find sympathy for conspiracy theories when so many have proven true. Who believes the government story on JFK? Who believes the investigation into Charlie Kirk’s death has found the truth? Who believes the official lines on 9/11, Covid, and Epstein? Fewer people every day. We’re all under the tension of scripted narratives designed to camouflage truth. Reality is being managed like a national marketing campaign. Success is measured by the percent of people buying the lying.

What’s the response? Most people try harder. Dig deeper. Research more. Become verbose. That only increases the weight.

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Living Words are Weapons

James 1:2-4 reframes the whole situation: When it seems as though you are facing nothing but difficulties, see it as an invaluable opportunity to experience the greatest joy that you can. The Greek word for perseverance here is hupomone — literally, remaining behind, standing your ground under pressure. It’s not passive resignation. It’s a counterattack with authority.

Hebrews 12:1-2 points to the model: Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus — for the joy set before Him, He endured the cross. Joy wasn’t the reward after the endurance. Joy empowered the fight, the running. That’s the upgrade sons need right now.

The Council word was clear: Learn to rejoice and counter while you wait. Erase accusations and release decrees — Counter, don’t just wait.

That reframes everything. Rejoicing isn’t what you do after the breakthrough. It’s the strategy that produces contending for the breakthrough. Rejoicing is the juice!

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Sons Have a Different Set of Weapons

God is awakening sons and daughters who can hear His voice. They’re under the same oppressive warfare as everyone else. But they carry weapons with divine power to demolish strongholds, arguments, and pretensions (2 Cor 10:4-5).

They take accusations to the Courts of Heaven and return with decrees. They ascend into Council conversations that unveil Father’s purpose and bring it to earth. They live by the words that proceed from their Father (Mt 4:4), and like Jesus, they simply do what they see Father doing (Jn 5:19).

Luke 10:19 — Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Feeling defeated is simply being absent from your seat in heavenly places. You still have it. The question is whether you’re sitting in it.

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Sons Release the Lion

The Spirit of Truth embodied in those decrees is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. Decrees — Living Words from the Council — are alive and active, sharper than any two-edged sword (Heb 4:12). When sons release them, they’re not arguing with the darkness or managing the narrative. They’re releasing a flood, Jesus’ legal advocacy, and Father additions.

The result is rejoicing. Instead of carrying the weight of the world’s problems, sons are releasing the weaponry that takes down strongholds. Prophetically declaring Father’s decrees. Co-laboring with what He’s doing in people, businesses, cities, and nations. Then rejoicing in the joy of doing it and the fruit it bears.

Yes, But How? Sons ascend to the Courts and Council and listen. If accusations show up, we’re in the Courts of Heaven. If it’s the normal trials and setbacks of life, we’re in the Council. Either way, Father has a decree (something to say) for every circumstance. Rom 8:31 — If God is for us, who can be against us?

This is what turns the disheartened into the rejoicing. Not wishful thinking. Not positive mental attitude. A son hearing from his Father and releasing the Spirit of Truth on earth, loosing the Lion of the Holy Spirit (Mt 16:19).

That’s not just surviving the storm. In Christ, sons and daughters are the storm.

This blog was inspired by a Council session – 2026-03-14 Council – Pro-Semitism

 

 

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Cutting Room Floor

The Cyrus effect (I am totally blessing it – a Reformation)

Venezuela — a center of worldwide election fraud, drug dealing, child trafficking and other deep state activities has been wiped clean, and the people were set free.

Cuba – The decades long communist strangle hold is about to break as a consequence of Venezuela’s liberation. Cuba will be a free and prosperous ally, a vacation paradise in the near future.

Iran — the world’s most active state sponsor of terrorism and the platform most prepared to launch a nuclear regional war — has had its nuclear infrastructure substantially dismantled through coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes. The regime’s ability to threaten the world has been set back by years, if not permanently.

Lloyd’s of London — the 300-year-old City of London institution that has quietly controlled global shipping through its insurance monopoly — tried to hold the world’s energy supply hostage by withdrawing coverage for tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Trump replaced them within 48 hours, standing up a $20 billion U.S. government reinsurance facility backed by the U.S. Navy. A financial chokehold three centuries in the making was broken in two days. Trump negotiated the participation of other nations in support of the naval escorts required to restore shipping through the strait of Hormuz.

Cartels — The most powerful cartel leadership in Mexico — responsible for the fentanyl supply chain killing tens of thousands of Americans annually and deeply embedded in human trafficking networks — is being systematically arrested and extradited. Mexico is moving toward a reckoning it has avoided for decades.

On March 7, 2026, Trump signed a proclamation at the Shield of the Americas Summit. This is not a diplomatic framework or a foreign aid package — it is a military coalition. The initiative, called the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition, is framed as a coordinated regional crackdown, with Trump comparing the cartel networks to ISIS.

Brownsville Refinery — For fifty years, the environmental and regulatory machinery of the administrative state made building a new oil refinery in America effectively impossible. That era is over. America First Refining announced the first new U.S. oil refinery in half a century — a $300 billion project backed by India’s Reliance Industries, designed specifically to process American shale oil that existing refineries were never built to handle. The United States has been sitting on an ocean of domestic crude while exporting it raw and importing refined product at a $1.8 trillion cost to American consumers over the last decade. That arbitrage ends here. Groundbreaking is set for April 2026.

What is happening is not the endless, inconclusive warfare the world has grown accustomed to. These are short, surgical, strategically precise operations dismantling infrastructure that has operated in the open for decades because no one with power was willing to move against it.

This is not finished. What has been accomplished in months will continue across Europe and the broader Western world. Every power structure built on exploitation, corruption, and the suppression of human freedom is now exposed and vulnerable in a way it has never been before.

This is the great awakening — not a political moment, but a civilizational one. Things are being uncovered and dismantled that a generation ago no one believed could be touched. We are watching history turn and we’re proud to play our role in Father’s Reformation.