Shalom, dear friends!
 
This past weekend, Pastor Shelley shared with his Alabama congregation a vision he had during the worship in Jerusalem on October 21st.  Then he preached a powerful, related message that the Lord strongly laid on his heart.
 
Here's what he shared with us in Jerusalem immediately after he had the vision:
 
 
Vision of Spices Being Crushed and Blended
 
I wanted to wait till the end, but I felt like the Lord wanted me to share this.
 
After Brother Kary came and started singing, I saw just a quick vision.
 
And I saw the spices.  I saw dry spices laying out flat on a stone.
 
It wasn’t really a bowl, but it was just a flat stone.
 
And I saw a great big hand -
a strong hand,
but only about the size of a man’s hand,
but a strong . . . stronger than my little hand.
 
And it was also taking a stone
with a different shape, like the mortar and the pestle, but a flat stone.
 
And I saw that the spices were being crushed and blended.
And I saw the spices laying in different little piles.
 
And He was pinching just a little bit -
like mama cooks, you know -
taking a little pinch of this and a little pinch of that
and a little pinch of the other
and putting it together, hallelujah,
crushing them together.
 
And I’ve had a sinus infection for two or three days, so I haven’t been smelling anything or tasting anything.
 
But in the vision, I was receiving a natural manifestation
to what I was seeing in the Spirit,
because all of a sudden my nose was so filled
with the aroma of these individual spices
as they were being crushed together.
 
And I believe I heard the Lord say
that there’s a blending anointing
that He wants to send our way,
even beginning in our lives today,
that would blend us together.
 
We have unique gifts, we have unique talents,
we have strengths, we have weaknesses.
And sometimes when we’re weak in something,
the Lord brings somebody into our life
that’s strong in a certain area.
 
So let’s just right now, before Bro. Kary brings the Word,
just lift up our hand and say,
"Lord, blend us."
 
We’re not just talking about only people in this room,
but with divine connections, Lord, all over the world -
in the nations,
in Jerusalem and in the nations,
in Jerusalem and in the nations,
in Jerusalem, Lord, and in the nations.  Hallelujah.
 
We thank You for the blending anointing.  We thank You for the blending of the corporate anointing.  We thank You for the crushing of the individual spices. We thank You, Lord, for releasing in us the aroma of that that You have placed in each other’s lives.
 
We thank You for the cross-pollination of Your Spirit in this hour.  We thank You, Lord, for what You’re doing.
 
And Father, we know that once all the spices have been crushed and the oils have been released, then the next ingredient for the holy anointing oil was fresh oil, fresh green oil that would come, about a hin, and bind all of the spices together.
 
Lord, we thank You for the Oil.  Send the Oil of the Holy Ghost like never before (tongues) to blend us together - for divine connections, Lord.
 
Father, we declare a season . . . we declare a season of divine connections. And we declare a season of binding us together with our aromas.
 
And Father, we’re not ignorant to notice that it takes the crushing.  We might not want to mention it first, but Lord, we recognize that in order for us to release that which is locked inside of us, we have to be crushed.
 
And so, Lord, we receive the crushing that You’re sending our way because we know that we have a destiny to fulfill.  We know we have a purpose to fulfill.  And it can only be fulfilled when we are able to release that which is locked inside of us for Kingdom purposes.
 
Oh hallelujah, hallelujah . . .
 
And I just hear the Spirit of the Lord saying
to go ahead and release for the next 120 days . . .
to release a very special anointing for Kingdom connections
and for blending together different styles, different aromas,
different fragrances, different gifts and strengths,
and for the Oil to come
and bind us all together to be a sweet savor unto the Lord.
 
So we just declare the next 120 days
to be a very special time for divine Kingdom connections
and for the blending together
of that which You’ve locked inside of us.
 
It’s time now, Lord, for it to be released
for the building of Your Kingdom -
for Jerusalem and the nations,
for Jerusalem and the nations.
 
Oh, hallelujah.
 
The Lion shall roar in Zion,
and the Voice of the Lord shall go forth from Jerusalem.
 
We thank You for the promise of Your Word. Hallelujah. Thank You, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Lord.
 
 
(Exo 30:23) Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
 
(Exo 30:24) And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive a hin:
 
(Exo 30:25) And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
 
 
 
That Which Every Joint Supplies
 
After Pastor Shelley shared this vision last Saturday night, he brought a strong word about how many of us are locked inside of ourselves spiritually.
 
We are not able to release out of ourselves what is needed to make the corporate anointing strong enough so that sickness and demons must flee in the resulting manifest Presence of the Lord.
 
Many of us are holding onto the oil in our spices - our gifts, our strengths - even when we are crushed.  We don't want to be transparent and vulnerable.
 
Pastor Shelley shocked us by saying that an angel warned him about an attack that would come against God's people in the form of a spirit of suicide.  It works hand in hand with a spirit of depression.  It is a spirit that can come even when all is going well.
 
It causes its victims to put up many walls to isolate themselves, yielding to the enemy's lies that they are no good, useless and unwanted.  People end up cutting themselves off from anyone who could help them.
 
At the end of the service, there were several people, young and old, who admitted to battling this spirit of suicide or of wanting to just run away.
 
Bro. William Branham said that the greatest battle in this last age is in the battleground of the mind.
 
The answer to every predicament, loneliness, heartache, etc., is in the corporate Body, but we are locked up.
 
We must take seriously the fact that our role and position in the Kingdom is very unique and important for the functioning of the corporate Body of Y'shua. We cannot just ignore it and think that God's sovereignty will take care of everything.
 
We must quit feeding the lie that we deserve our misery or the inability to release our gifts.  A total change of lifestyle, habits and conversation is needed. What we say and think about ourselves must line up with God's Word.  We have to bust out of ourselves and be what we have never been.
 
We each have to have our own "lick" of the Pillar of Fire over us so that the corporate anointing will be strong enough to cause instant deliverances.
 
God provides the oil, but we provide the spices that He has put within us.  He can make us into a mighty army, but are we willing to have the bars of our lives unlocked?  Are we ready to let God help us to release our giftings?
 
We must find out what it is that God wants us to do and do it!  He is getting ready to get in our face!  He won't let us hide in ourselves.
 
We have 120 days of grace (until February 18) where God wants to supply His Oil to blend our spices together.
 
 
(Eph 4:15) But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
 
(Eph 4:16) From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
 
 
 
About the Pictures . . .
 
The spice in this picture and the one at the beginning is rosemary. 
 
It is very common in many parts of Israel and makes a nice ornamental shrub.
 
These rosemary bushes are in our neighborhood.
 
The tower on the top left of the picture is part of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus (which is on the same ridge as the Mount of Olives).
 
We live on the side of the mountain facing the Jordan Valley and the country of Jordan to the East.  In the above picture, our apartment complex is hidden behind the center building.
 
The picture to the left is a quaint dead-end street that is connected to our dead-end street by pedestrian stairs.
 
I walk along this street to go to our neighborhood post office.
 
It was particularly beautiful this morning and I thought you might enjoy it.
 
 
 
Just a Reminder, in Closing
 
Any help you can give us to be able to pay our rent next week would be such a great blessing!  Thank you so much for your prayerful consideration!
 
By faith, I have booked a plane ticket to go to the Winter Campmeeting in Alabama (which is December 31 - January 7).  God willing, I will be there from December 14 to January 15 and will celebrate Hanukkah (instead of Christmas) with all my wonderful friends there.  If God puts it on your heart to help with my ticket expense, it would be so wonderful!
 
 
 
May the Lord help us all to release the spices that are locked up inside of us and blend them together with the rest of His Body, adding the precious Oil of His Anointing!
 
 
(Exo 30:31) And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
 
 
Blessings from Jerusalem!
Nancy Bergen

Jerusalem Revival Center
PO Box 1402
Jerusalem 91013, Israel
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