The Lord is speaking into 2012 - increase, perseverance, strength, great outpouring, dream big dreams, purify your thinking, open your heart, compassion, power, sounds of heave & cries of the earth, altar of worship, and more. Read the full article to discover the portion Holy Spirit has revealed, remembering that we all hear in part and prophesy in part. We must tune our ears to hear what the Lord is saying to the Church, the Ekklesia, today.

"And it came to pass, when Moses entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and stoodatthe door of the tabernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses. . .So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle." Exodus 33:9, 11 During this season of the Feast of Tabernacles, the Lord has issued an invitation for us to draw near to Him in a new way, to open our hearts, our homes, our businesses, our ministries -- the fullness of our lives -- to His abiding, "tabernacling" presence. What I sense strongly by Holy Spirit is that as we respond to His invitation, He is postured to come to us with greater manifestation of His presence. He is looking for places of habitation, places of abiding, places that have been prepared to be altogether His.

In a previous article, we were challenged to understand that this season is one where the Lord is orchestrating life to reveal our heart, our mind and our will by the testing of our affections, our motivations, and our alignments. We were challenged to change our mindsets to more fully line-up with the Lord's ways, to live in humility, to be rightly aligned & connected by the Lord's design, to be Kingdom-focused, to pray consistently & fast as the Lord calls. And, we were called to be fully devoted to Christ in extravagant worship, in giving ourselves to apostles' teachings, in intercessory prayer and acts of service to demonstrate love and honor towards people in the Body of Christ and in our communities. The Lord is calling us to look at the pitfalls and stumbling blocks that could hinder our progress toward "finishing well." Always remembering that the way we finish one season determines the way we enter into the new.

Over the last few weeks Holy Spirit has been speaking to me about being rightly aligned with His course in order to move into the next season, or era, that is rapidly coming upon us. In the course of praying into this, I sensed the Lord say that our Ekklesia Arising assembly on July 24 was to focus on preparing us to move through this time and that Teresa Heath and Connie Bolton had portions to share that were key. So, they graciously agreed to share and what came forth was a three-stranded cord of strength and unity out of the heart of our Father. The following notes are compiled from each of us and provided for your edification and encouragement.

Throughout Scriptures we see the building altars to establish places of worship and consecration before the Lord. These altars were built in response to a revelation or encounter with the Lord, and also in faith-filled anticipation and hopeful expectation of establishing a place where the Lord's abiding, manifest presence permeated and brought the rule of the Lord into the earth. Leading into Pentecost, Christ's disciples, along with other faithful followers, gathered in obedience to Christ's words to "tarry in Jerusalem until . . " As these 120 faithful ones gathered they "with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer." (Acts 1:12-14) As living stones, they built an altar to the Lord.

It is with great excitement that I am writing today to share with you a wonderful opportunity that has opened up for me to travel to Israel on a Ministry Trip. This is something I have dreamed of for years, but even though I have prayerfully considered going at other times and with various ministries, the release of the Lord never came...until now.