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June 2013
IN THIS ISSUE.. Report from the JOPLIN OUTREACH trip The Adventure of Finding a Home continues Summer Plans are taking shape Impressions from the Lord
There are several more pictures on the next page from the Joplin trip (thanks Jessianna!). On Saturday morning we arrived back at Watered Gardens Mission at 6 a.m. to fix breakfast for the guys. Then we led two morning worship & prayer sets in the Upper Room. The presence of the Lord just filled the room, and it reminded us of the hours & hours we have spent in the past at Watered Gardens Mission in the Upper Room just worshiping, praying, and asking the Holy Spirit to visit Joplin. At lunch on Saturday we had a cookout outside, and many people came and were ministered to by our team. On Saturday evening we were at Joplin Family Worship Center where we had an awesome time fueling the worship & prayer that David Carnine is leading there! We also had a great time of ministry to people at the end of the service. We finished our trip on Sunday morning back at Watered Gardens Mission where we led the morning service, and prayed for many people to receive healing and breakthroughs. It was an awesome trip!
Article in Joplin Globe about Joplin House of Prayer. This came out the Saturday the IHOP-KC team was in Joplin!
We asked that you all would be praying for us as we were the speakers at the IHOP Life Initiatives Townhall Rally on May 28th. This is a monthly meeting where everyone on the Missions Base who is
involved in pro-life ministries gathers for encouragement and to share information about what is going on. We shared the story of the dreams that Joy and I had before the Joplin tornado in which I was depicted as meeting the President and pleading with him to end abortion in America, and in which Joy was given the date of 5-29-11 the date I did end up meeting President Obama and asking him to remember the unborn. Well, we shared our story, and ended the evening with praying for the President and his family, and it was really a powerful time. While we were praying, the Lord gave me an impression of a strategy regarding praying for President Obama. I had never seen this before! He showed me that in the same way that He had united my heart with Joys heart about this issue and had given us both dreams, He also wants to unite President Obamas heart with his own daughters on this issue. I especially felt that Sasha was the daughter that President Obama would be united to in like-hearts about the ending of abortion. I feel that He may even give them both dreams, like He gave to Joy and me. After I shared this at the meeting, one of the young men who is a leader in Life Initiatives came up front and said that he had brought a book along with him for some reason which was a book of names and their meaning (like parents use for searching names for their babies). He looked up Sasha and was amazed! The book said that Sasha means defender of mankind, and that its spiritual connotation is Heart of God! The Scripture it listed was Deuteronomy 10:18, which is speaking of God and says He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. I believe this is a confirmation that Sasha does have a destiny of carrying the heart of God in defending the unborn, and bringing justice to them, so many of whom are indeed fatherless. As a result of our sharing at this meeting, the IHOP-KC Life Initiatives department has now begun 2 prayer meetings a week for the President and his family! We will be attending one of them every Wednesday at 11 a.m. We are also becoming more involved ourselves with Life Initiatives here at the Missions Base, and will be meeting with their leadership team regularly for prayer and discussion together, as well as beginning to serve as much as our schedule permits while we are in the 12-week internship. After the internship, we believe this may be one of the areas the Lord leads us to serve and lead in on the Missions Base. Before I close this newsletter, let me share a final impression I had from the Lord recently while I was praying in the Global Prayer Room. It was on June 1st, our wedding anniversary (33 years!). It was Saturday afternoon, and Misty Edwards was leading a devotional set by herself. Suddenly, she began singing an oracle from the Lord, and a spirit of revelation began to move in the room regarding the time and season we are in. It was a powerful moment as the Lord began to speak through Misty, saying, Its the calm before the storm. She sang & spoke, Blow the trumpet in Zion, Sound the alarm! Its not too far away. If the watchmen do not sound the alarm, who will survive? And then she sang again, Its the calm before the storm. Its a time of confusion many people are confused by the calm. DONT BE CONFUSED! As I prayed and meditated upon what Misty was singing and speaking, the Lord impressed upon me that this is the time to Get oil. I remembered Him speaking to me several months ago w hile we were in Joplin, in the midst of making our decision to move to Kansas City, and He showed me that personally I needed to Get oil in this season. The old song says, Give me oil in my lamp, keep me burning I believe this is a word for all of us This is the time, this is the season, dont be confused by the calm, but GET OIL for your lamp. If you have been being distracted away from personal prayer and time in the Word ask the Lords help to get back to it! Things are not going to continue as they have for too much longer, change is closer than we know, and its time to prepare by getting oil from the Lord. That way our lamps will continue burning brightly during the dark season that lies just ahead. Must close for now. We thank God for all of you, and were praying for you! May you all be blessed and comforted by the Lord. Because He is worthy of it all, Jim & Melissa Marcum & family Our contact information: The Marcums P.O. Box 1099 Grandview, MO 64030 Phone & text: 417-483-6723 (Jim) 417-825-0841 (Melissa) Email & paypal: intercessorymissions@gmail.com