Prophecy: Preparing Hearts for Harvest
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The Lord is calling His intercessors to help prepare the hearts of Americans for revival and harvest. Most intercessors have been pleading for revival among God’s people and a harvest among those who will come to Christ in the ensuing spiritual climate. … As Jesus said to His disciples: “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field” (Matthew 9:37–38).
For Believers to Receive God’s Heart
When I sought the Lord in late 2021 as to specifics on praying for the revival and harvest, He kindly provided a three-part prayer, which I share in hopes and expectation that your prayers ignite the fire of preparation for the time of the harvest.
The Lord first gave a prayer for His people in the following prophecy:
The hearts must be cut — first among My people — those who truly know Me must receive My care, My concern, My horror over the choice to damnation.
Pray that the hearts of My own be cut with My compassion and ignited by My urgency. The fellowship of salvation must embrace My heart in this matter.
Please pray:
Lord, we have been praying for revival and harvest for so long that we may have lost our passion, even our compassion. Forgive us if our love has grown cold, and forgive us for trying to muster up our own passion and compassion and love. We turn away from trying to do our prayers ourselves, and we join ourselves to You. Fill us with Your Spirit, change us into the likeness of the Intercessor Himself. Please cut our hearts and the hearts of all Your people so that we are willing to receive anew Your care, Your concern, Your horror over the choices some people are making that will result in eternal damnation. Cut our hearts with Your compassion and ignite our hearts with Your urgency. We pray that all in the fellowship of salvation embrace Your heart in the matter. Revive us all and equip us with Your heart. In Jesus’ name. Amen and amen.
For Those Christian in Name Only
One of the saddest and most frightening scenes in the last days appears in Matthew 25. Jesus is talking with His disciples about the end times and the kingdom, and He shares this picture with them: “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left” (Matthew 25:31–33). The sheep are welcomed into the Lord’s presence, but the goats are cast away.
This saddens me, because I can remember clearly how I thought and felt before I was a true sheep. I sincerely thought that because I had been baptized, confirmed, and raised in the church, I was assured of my eternal destination. It would take years for me to be humbled enough to pray earnestly for Jesus to save me. But when I did, my eyes were opened to the spiritual danger from which I had just escaped. I had been a goat without knowing it.
This is the Lord’s prayer for those who are not in true fellowship with Him:
And the hearts of the many who say they are Mine but are not must be cut toward truth. They must come into My full fellowship for they have not My Spirit and so languish in error without My life.
Please pray:
Lord, please cut toward truth the hearts of those who say and may even believe they are Yours, but who are not. Help them realize that they are not in full, saving relationship with You. Help them receive the Savior as atonement for their sins and as Lord of their lives. Help them therefore receive Your Spirit in that salvation. Help them move from the deadly error of deception as to their salvation into the fullness of Your life within them. Cut their hearts toward truth. In Jesus’ name. Amen and amen.
For Those Hurdling Toward Hell
Rebels against the Lord God abound. They worship idols and engage in wickedness of all sorts. Many also actively seek to tempt others into their evil ways by deception, seduction, or coercion. But their end is clearly spoken of throughout the Bible. Paul writes: But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed (Romans 2:5). Revelation shows the destination of these evildoers: And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:15).
But these don’t have to end up in hell. The Lord asks us to join in His heart’s cry for them.
And those now hell-bound in earnest or full-out rebellion, their hearts must be cut and captured by their Savior’s story and sacrifice. Pray, pray with My heart, My emotional engagement for these ones now lost and heading into the place of no return.
Please pray:
Lord, give us Your heart, cut with Your care, concern, compassion, and horror for these now hell-bound to the place of no return. Grant us Your urgency for them, and give us Your emotional engagement so that we are truly moved for them. Cut and capture the hearts of these who are bound for hell and are in rebellion. Cut and capture their hearts with the Savior’s story and most especially His sacrifice. Help them to hear, believe, receive, and obey the call of the Savior and Lord of life. Bring them into the full fellowship of salvation, into the harvest of souls for the glory of Your name. Amen and amen.
In prayer my husband, Rich, also a contributing writer for IFA, not only confirmed I was to share this prayer prophecy and strategy with you, but he also saw in his mind’s eye a bicycle wheel with light between two spokes. I understood this to indicate that the foregoing prayer is a part of the entire strategy. The Lord will reveal to His saints additional aspects for prayer at the proper time. Let us keep listening and praying.
Share your prayer for the revival and harvest below.
New York City–based Joyce Swingle is an intercessor and a contributing writer for IFA. With her husband, Rich, also a contributing writer for IFA, Joyce shares the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world through theater, speaking, writing, and film. Prior to going into full-time ministry, Joyce worked for about 20 major magazines and now works in pastoral ministry and Christian counseling.
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Glory to God! I read this just after reading that there were 98 confirmed Salvations during SatanCon: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrrxLRzAhnO/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
May that fuel our prayers for the Harvest to come from the goats and the rebels!!!
Lord, prepare our churches for whomever you send us!
Lord, thank You for giving Suzie the vision for us to pray for this!!!
Lord, I lift up the unbelievers in my community. Please do not turn them over to a reprobate mind. Grant repentance to their hearts. Let them know that they must call upon you in order to be saved. To set themselves free from the schemes and snares that the enemy is using to hold them captive; to set themselves free from the civil war that is going on between their spirit and their mind. Let every stronghold in their life be pulled down and brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ; that they will turn their lives over to you once and for all before it is too late; that they will not be gambling with their eternal soul.
And Lord, send laborers across their path. Somebody that they will listen to; someone who can mentor them; someone who has been through the same valley and knows how to get to the mountain on the other side. Lord, give those mentors discernment to know the right words to say and the right time in the right way and the passion to invite them and keep on inviting them.
Thank you Lord, for the sharing of this message. Today, as the SatanCon attendees arrive at their homes, I ask that the witnessing of the Intercessors be proofing inside their hearts, their beings; that as the days continue the Holy Spirit brings it full-blown into fruition. I ask that the employees of Boston, of the inns, motels, eateries, transportation also be mulling over what they have heard from your servants. . I thank you for those Intercessors who left the comfort of their own homes to mingle with those attendees, to share your life and soul saving grace and mercy.
God bless your work for the kingdom.
Dear Heavenly Father! The more we see how unusual and revealing of your work and secret things that belong to you, the more we know the extravagant and outrageous love you have for your creation. When we first heard about the opening of borders, we were angry at the actions of those in power and authority to allow this situation. We did not understand that YOU were bringing the harvest of the World, we Americans should have been seeking. We did not know why You were bringing missionaries from around the WORLD to bring in this Harvest! We repent for being so wrapped up in our selves that our heart was cold to Your WILL in bringing these people into your family. Forgive us and stir our hearts to reach out to this Harvest field! In JESUS Name, AMEN!!!
This article is very inciteful. I have wanted to have our Lord’s heart for all people like Jesus did. I got a touch of it from reading Genesis recently and being overwhelmed that only one person was found righteous, Noah. And it grieved God that He had made man. I cry even as I write this. Our merciful God had a second plan to bring redemption and righteousness through His own Son. It is very hard to see the increasing evil around us, but as we receive the Lord’s heart for people we will pray with His love and Power and be more and more open to Holy Spirit and how we are to express God’s great love and see multitudes come into His Kingdom!
This is so good. I heard a sermon today along the same lines of thinking. My heart was cut to the quick and I was deeply convicted. I know this has to be a move of the Holy Spirit and an answer that is just beginning to pour out from all the intercessors calling out to God our father. May Christ be glorified in His church. Eph. 3:20-21.
Thanks be to God for using you as His guiding hands to direct us in praying for the harvest and revival. Thank you for reminding us that the Lord is not please that anyone might die in their sin and that He offers salvation to all. Thank you for helping me to see with repentance joy that God also might cause all to be like the thief on the cross. Lord, have mercy on us, sinners. Amen.
Jan 2, 2022
My first dream of the year.
I was to equip those with and without identities how fight the fires on their own. These were people with the knowledge of The Gospel.
Thank you for this guided prayer. Now I know exactly how to pray into what the Lord is calling me into.
Malissa Fisher
Father causes to come back to your greatest commandments to love the Lord Our God with all of our hearts our minds and our souls and to love our neighbors as ourselves and as this is restored. it will cause such a burning in our hearts to beat with the drum beat of heaven. For those that are lost because we will feel and we will see and we will act upon in brokeness, compassion, unction & fire to see the lost won. Our hearts entwined as one with the heart of God filled with His love for the lost & dying.
Thank you Joyce for your post and yes, keep posting as Adonai leads. Nothing is impossible with God ….. that all those that are to come to full Salvation will come in His timing … we believe, declare and pray!
Matt.9:37-38 Is a confirmation and encouragement to know one is praying God’s heart. all across the nation, God is preparing a harvest, but the workers are few. I pray that God will raise up workers, to pay the price and make the sacrifice to come alongside of those God is bringing in. They will be a broken people. What He has shown me is get ready for the coming of an ICU, people who will need much care and healing . We will give witness to the miracle work of Our God. The Lord showed me this in the late 80″s, I have prayed, prepared and waited for His movement. May the Church move with His power, love and anointing, that the Glory of the Lord be seen.
Blessings of His truths upon us all. I woke up this New Year Day with the words upon my mind. Mark 8:36. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his very own soul. I have been praying for His words of truths to convict, open up the hearts, minds, wills of my family . Our nation, nations. People all around the world. May they not be deceived to believe a lie . May the captives be sent free. Delivered from there mind set , habits, strongholds, fear, unbelief, wrong way of thinking, doing, believing. Teach us to pray . Help us to pray more, let our lights shine brighter, brighter as we face this new year. Trusting in, leaning on, rely on you . Being controlled by the Holy Spirit and not the flesh. Fresh oil, fresh anointing upon us daily, hourly . Being sensitive to what your word , and the Holy Spirit is saying to us to do, or not to do. Let the Spirit of the living God be poured out upon us. Thank you, Lord for we know you hear our cries, prayers unto You. Amen and Amen.
As an intercesspr I’ve been seeing this. Please keep publishing what you’re hearing. Some of us, I believe, are called to step into a place of agonizing prayer. Not just for a moment, but in His timing and way by His grace.
We know in Whom we have believe and why! These two posts linked are powerful in their capacity to convict and encourage hearts who NEED to know and receive the Ultimate Truth that we are so humbly privileged to share. May our LORD continue to Bless our efforts as we serve our Saviour, Father GOD, and Holy Spirit according to His revealed Will:
https://zionsgate.wordpress.com/2007/06/09/the-messiah-according-to-the-scriptures/ AND Irrefutable Evidence:
https://zionsgate.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/the-rule-of-seven/
Kingdom Blessings to all who Love the LORD, and yearn for His Glorious Appearing… in HIM ~Santos
Yes LORD give us the weeping before the porch and the alter.
Your cry for the lost for the time is late even at the door so stir us up to echo your hearts cry for the lost.
Amen in JESHUAs name we pray
I pray for a Great Spiritual Reawakening in the U.S. and the world. I pray according to Matthew 13:13-15, :
I pray that the Holy Spirit will open the eyes of 100’s of millions of people in the U.S. and around the world so that they will see their need for GOD; I pray that the Holy Spirit will open their ears so they hear the Good News of Jesus Christ; I pray the Holy Spirit will soften their hearts so that they repent and confess their sins and serve Jesus and give Him all the glory, praise, and honor, in Jesus name. Amen.
Roger Larson
As Jesus used parables to explain His kingdom, so can we today. Simply ask Him to reveal current events to use in your testimony. His Spirit will use them in hearts that He touches through you, directly and indirectly.
When someone says I’ll get around to asking the Lord into my heart – aak them if they can get auto insurance after an accident.
When someone says they. are a Christian based on church traditions – ask them if someone claimed to be a relative at the reading of a will, what would prove their claim.? Only a DNA test would confirm their physical relationship. So it is with the true relationship with Jesus. For Him to say they are Mine, there first has to be relationship spiritually with Him. His terms – not ours.
You will be planting seeds that only His Spirit can nurture.
Lord please take the veil from our eyes that keeps us from properly seeing your path and guidance for each of us individually, each of our church groups, and especially our church leaders, and those that represent this nation through out this coming year (2022). Lord send your Holy Spirit to minister and guide each of us! And this Nation Again!
Dear Friends, May this teaching above open our eyes to the hope of his calling to us the saints. That we realize we are His power in the earth. And that All Power on earth and in the hevenly’s is given to Jesus who has granted us permiswsion to speak in His Name in accolrdanc with Hiis will.
As your eyes arfe opened so pray. Praise the Mighty God who was, and is, and is forever. raise your voice in thaksgiving and praise for the answer so prayed. Let your praises and thanksgiving be made in the joy of full knowledge that God’s charge to us is no a vain hope of in a man made idol. We have prayed in obedience to the leading of the One True God, So BE IT! Praise Him in joy and gladness and walk this year in the glow of the annointing of warriors in prayer.
Father yes and amen to these prayers, send your Holy Spirit to convict heavily and mightly and woo to repentance with your divine love and mercy each heart, those in the true church who have become weak weary and cold, reach the professors in name, the rebellious, the resisters, the outright wicked, and the deceived satan worshippers, luciferians, and idolators, Father fill in the gaps and fully and clearly instruct those in religions who have heard of you and Jesus but in the context of religion not relationship and also those who have heard but have erroroneous beliefs about you, Jesus, heaven, hell, sin, righteousness, licentiousness, grace and legalism as well as those who think it is acceptable to claim you as savior yet also explore buddism and other mind and behavior modifications instead of receiving all the benefits of the cross of Jesus Christ including true and full cleansing sanctification, justification, and radical repentance in their heart/mind/spirit/attitude and behavior. Father reach the rebbellious and the deceived who prefer to or in ignorance worship satan/lucifer instead of you, and reach, convict, and woo with your love and mercy all the idolators, athiests, agnostics, and heretics to accept your mercy and salvation. If there are any categories not yet mentioned, reach convict, and woo them also with your love and mercy. prepare every heart in the earth great and small old and young, and reach them in a perfect way to introduce your true self and offer them true and full salvation.
Excellent article. Our nation, and world, SO need revival, especially in these End times that we are living in. Lord Jesus, I confess, that I do not understand the concept of fanning the flames of revival. By Your great Grace, please show me how to do so. I desperately wish to see Your Church awakened, and many lost come to You. Please, Lord, by the power of Holy Spirit, give me insight and wisdom. In Jesus’ name.
Father thank You for reveling Your Heart to us.
We are commanded to love one another, pray for one another and as we do the lost will see Your love in us. The compassion of Christ revealed to the world by simple being doers of the Word, as we share with others what Christ has done for us. Also 1 Thessalonians 5:14 says; “Now we exhort you brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak be patient will all.” For starters, this is the church being spoken to. The lost needs to SEE the Love of Christ in us amen.
Lord I (we) pray that the church will rise up correct the things that needs correction as we follow You, intercede for lost, and have true compassion for others as You do in Jesus Name Amen.
Praising God for Senator Manchin’s strength and courage as he stands against Build back better!
Prayers for DeSantis as his voice influences government.
I pray for many to come into the knowledge of the sacrifice Jesus gave and they will know and have fellowship with our Savior!
Father, we pray soften the hearts that are hardened by the love of this world above the love of You. Grant us courage, wisdom and strength to continue in our prayers and actions to spread Your Word wherever You send us. In Jesus’s Holy name.
As intercessors it is time to unite with all fervor as we groan for th harvest! We are in full assault as we attack th strongholds of our adversary!!!
Hearts are growing cold. I am praying for the lost! SLvation for all. Amen