"THE DEVIL IS NOT FIGHTING YOU BECAUSE OF WHERE YOU ARE...HE IS FIGHTING YOU BECAUSE OF WHERE YOU ARE GOING!"
(A Word to Pastors and Churches)
by Bill Yount
www.billyount.com
theshofarhasblown@juno.com

Years ago I saw a vision of the enemy encamping right outside the front doorstep of many churches, leaning hard against the front door -- but all he could do was tremble and shake with fear.

Looking back over the years, I thought the enemy was trembling because of what was going on inside of these churches and gatherings at that moment. But I sense now that that was not the reason. Though he may have fought you and your church from the start and down through the years, I sense this "very" day is the day that he saw coming and feared the most. His trembling days are not over...for your best days are just ahead! I now see all of hell shaking because of you and your church. I have no idea what is going on, but somehow you and your church have set off an alarm that is screaming down through the corridors of hell. And the enemy and his demons have just launched, like a missile, their greatest attack against you and your church...but they missed!

"Yes, This is 'The' Day the Enemy Dreaded..."

I sense things are coming to a head in many churches, for I see something like a large birth taking place. I am not sure what it is. But this is what hell was afraid of that might happen. In the Spirit I see little seeds being dispersed outside of these churches. These seeds appear to be rather small and innocent but are very deadly to the devil's kingdom. I sense it is seed planting time. A time to give birth and a time to plant. These seeds of life going out from inside your church are what are making hell tremble. The Devil never fought you because of where you are...he has fought you all the way because of where you are going!! I see you and these seeds going into nations and planting churches that will shake the world. Many seeds are beginning to be blown into the streets and market places. I see people and children, like seeds, being picked up from the inside of your church by God's hand and sent out, being scattered across the face of the earth for the last great harvest!

There is a ministry that scatters and yet increases! Yes, this is "the" day the enemy dreaded and feared that would come. But this day is here! And so are you and your church. And you have survived, for you have been brought into the Kingdom for such a time as this!

"The Enemy Trembles at What We Might Take Outside the Church Doors..."

The enemy is not too concerned about what goes on inside of churches.
What really causes the enemy to tremble is what we might take outside those church doors when we leave, going into the world. I sense many churches are experiencing great discomfort, but it is really labor pains of contractions because of the large pregnancy of their destiny that is about to come forth. We were born to reproduce! I sense the trouble that the enemy has come against you with has only broken up and fertilized the ground beneath you, the ground in your sanctuary and the ground in your parking lots. I sense your ground is so fertile that this season you are in will bring forth even some surprise babies (babies that are not planned) out of your congregation. Wombs will be opened in the natural to confirm that God is opening your spiritual womb of your church to send forth seeds of life! Some people may get a laugh out of this, but remember...Sarah laughed!!

I sense this scripture that has been on my heart is for many churches this hour.

Haggai 2:18-19, 21-23:

"Consider now and this day upward, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple (God's House) was laid, consider it. Is the seed yet in the barn? Yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate and the olive tree hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you!

"And speak to Zerubbabel (My Church) saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots and those that ride in them and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

"And in that day will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, (My Church) my servants and will make thee as a signet, for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of hosts!"

"Let's empty the barn...and get the seed out and leave the barn doors open!"

God brings us out of the world and then takes the world out of us, and then sends us back into the world!


by Bill Yount
Hagerstown, MD
www.billyount.com
theshofarhasblown@juno.com