(another prophetic interchange from the House of Bishops in New York.) Bishop Jones Begins recounting a vision he had many years ago concerning a beautiful Clipper Ship. He saw a magnificent clipper ship that was sitting in dock. It was beautiful and the woodwork was polished. It was grand and amazing, but it had become like a museum. There were sails but they were not raised. But the structure was amazing and everyone went to see the beauty of the ship. The Lord told Bishop that this was like the Liturgy. The Liturgy is the structure. The structure is meant to hold and contain the Holy Spirit. That is the point of its existence. It keeps us Christocentric. The ship was made to have the sails raised; to go out and catch the wind. We are going after this; we are going after Jesus. We are going after the river of God’s Anointing. This is the “secret sauce”; what brings to completion and perfection, or to its perfect and intended end; Teleios. Bishop Brett mentions what we are going after is this is the Book of Acts: The Holy Spirit being released at Pentecost, and apostles’ understanding of fullness of this and what it meant. This is what we are going after. Also mentioning how interesting it is that the boat needs the sails unfurled to catch the wind, otherwise it is anchored; not moving.  What we have been seeing in the past is that people in the church have been pushing against the wind. And the sense he has now is that as leadership, God is moving us back to where it has always been but with a renewed spirit and fire of revival. In that, as leadership, we (the bishops) must learn to steward God’s presence on an individual

(Below you will find a transcript/summary of a prophetic ‘discussion’ from day 1 of the House of Bishops from October in New York. It starts with a story from Bishop Jason and gets fleshed out in the discussion that follows.) Bishop Jason recounted the story that for the past three years the Lord has been showing him repetitive groupings of the number 2. It started off subtly, where he would look at the time on the clock, and it would be 2:22 or 3:22.  As time has gone on, the frequency of seeing the number 2 would draw his attention to license plates or labels on items. These appearances have steadily and rapidly increased in frequency; so much so over the last 3 years that it has become obvious that this is not just a coincidence; but that God is speaking.  During his drive from Georgia to New York for the House of Bishops in October, the appearance of the number 2 became as loud as a voice shouting in his head and he saw it so many times that he lost count after more than 100 episodes in a short period of time. Having worked in law enforcement and being trained to observe numbers on licenses and car tags, Bishop Jason reports seeing more incidents where the number 2 or groupings of the number 2 were present than in his 10 years of work in law enforcement. On another trip, he was praying while driving, as he often does, and while stopped at a traffic light he noticed a tag with repetitive 2s on it and glancing toward another car he saw a license plate with the word “tsunami” printed on it. After having a conversation with Bishop Jones and praying into this more, one thing that was on Bishop

During our recent prayer walk through Biltmore village a year after Hurricane Helene, the Word of the Lord came to Amanda Newcomb. While Biltmore village had become a destination for the wealthy over the last century, the worldliness and riches of this earth could not protect it from the flood waters. Amanda writes, “On our prayer walk, at the old train depot, I knew He had created this place of beauty and grandeur so long ago, and it has been corrupted and perverted over all these years. I heard Him say that He is going to restore it and cleanse it and get rid of all the dirt and brokenness.  He brought to my mind verse 12 from Isaiah 58:  ‘Those from among you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, the Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.’ Then I knew without a doubt why God had spared our little church from the devastation of Helene.  We are a small church, But we can pray and we can praise!  We can keep the lines of communication open with our Great God, and remind Him like the persistent widow that the Asheville area is still not okay.  That it needs Him more than ever.  I believe that is why He put us next to Sweeten Creek and Biltmore Village.  When I got home I looked up the verse from Isaiah that the Lord had spoken to me on the walk, I read verse 11, ‘If you take the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, if you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall dawn in the darkness, and your