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nne Graham Lotz, daugh-
ter of famous evangelist
ABilly Graham, recently
released a prophetic warning and
calls for urgent prayer.

"As I look ahead into 2016, I
believe our national and global
situation will get worse.

A good friend has focused my
attention on Isaiah 60:1-2 as a
word from the Lord for the New Anne Graham Lotz
Year:
"Arise, shine, for your light has know. And I feel compelled, like
come, and the glory of the Lord Jehoshaphat, to lead God's
has risen upon you. For the people also in a desperate prayer
darkness shall cover the earth for help before we plunge past
and deep darkness the peoples; the point of no return into the
but the Lord shall rise upon you, abyss of God's judgment.
and His glory shall be seen upon
you." The glory is that God answered
Jehoshaphat's prayer by reas-
I can feel the encroaching dark- suring him, "'Do not fear, nor be
ness of evil that is like a heavy dismayed because of this great
moral and spiritual fog. It's army, for the battle is not yours,
permeating our nation at every but God's. ...It will not be
level. At the very same time that necessary for you to fight in this
our nation is enveloped in thick conflict. Take your positions,
darkness, God commands us to stand, and observe the delive-
arise, let our Light shine, and the rance of the Lord for you, O
distinctive glory of our Lord will Judah and Jerusalem.' Do not
be obvious to all. fear or be filled with terror. ...
(T)he Lord will be with you"
These conflicting thoughts of (2 Chronicles 20:15, 17).
thick darkness and light, of
encroaching evil and glory, were What is the position we are to
on my mind during these days take up? I believe it's a position
before Christmas of 2015. I have on our knees as we humble
been meditating on 2 Chronicles ourselves, seek God's face,
20 in which Jehoshaphat, king of repent of our sin and intercede
Judah, was warned that a vast for our nation. Then, having done
army was coming against him. all, we stand firm in our faith that
God has heard and will answer
As I put myself in his place, I our prayer!
asked myself, what do we do http://www.charismanews.com
when we are warned of the
enemy's advance? The answer — ooo OOO ooo —
was given in the next verse: "Then Darkness is prevalent and
Jehoshaphat was fearful and set thickening all over the globe. No
himself to seek the Lord, and he corner of the world is excluded
called for a fast throughout all from the vicious attacks of the
Judah. And Judah was assem- enemy. Satan has been a
bled to seek the Lord; even from murderer, adversary, and liar
all the cities of Judah, they came from the beginning, seeking to
to obtain aid from the Lord"
inflict suffering on mankind. As
(2 Chron. 20:3-4). Jehoshaphat this age is drawing to a close, he
led God's people in a prayer that is intensifying his warfare, for he
was a desperate heart's cry for knows his time is short. We as
help! Christians should unite in prayer
and fasting for our communities
I have been repeatedly warned in and children, so that we can rise,
my spirit that the enemy is shine, overcome and live victo-
advancing. It's something that I riously! - Editor, Good News