Luke 24:13-35

By Mari Anne Andersen

January 2021

Happy New Year!

On January 6, 2021, I sent out Part 1 of the Word I sensed the Lord gave me for this New Year and some of the unfolding areas in our nation.  (Here is the link to  “A Year for Our Pursuit of Truth as We Journey on the Road to Emmaus Part 1” so that you can review it or read it for the first time:  http://www.freedomhouseministry.com/a-year-for-our-pursuit-of-truth-as-we-journey-on-the-road-to-emmaus/  This is now, Part 2 of the “Pursuit of Truth as we Journey on the Road to Emmaus.” I believe, in 2021 it will be to pursue truth from the inside out (Psalm 51:6) and to walk on the Road with Jesus to Emmaus (Luke 24).

The Road to Emmaus is a call, I believe, to pursue deeper truths, deeper insights, and deeper revelations in our walk with Jesus EVEN WHEN we cannot recognize Him as He is working behind the scenes, particularly when everything looks bleak, gloomy, and depressing.  On this journey to Emmaus, Jesus, wants to open our eyes so that we can see the resurrected Savior and His promises of hope, life, and liberty and to open the eyes of our understanding to the greater good and greater glory of things to come in our lives, our family’s lives, and in our nation’s life.

The Emmaus Road really speaks about trusting Jesus, our Lord and Savior, our Redeemer, and the Lifter of Our Heads. It’s about trusting Him even when we don’t understand, don’t see things working (just yet).  I believe we are all in a “Life Lesson” of trust and truth that God is at work and that He has a plan in ALL things for 2021, particularly when we don’t see the evidence of His promises (just yet).  Please read Luke 24:13-35 (NIV) as I will just speak into some of these verses. 

Luke 24:13-16

Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.  As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; but they were kept from recognizing him.

We see the two unknown disciples who did not recognize Jesus, who were in distress, pain, and confusion by what had just taken place regarding Jesus’ crucifixion.  They were deeply perplexed and in pain because they thought there would be a different outcome.  My question is: “Why were they kept from recognizing Jesus?”  Why would Jesus do that?   Currently in your present situations, be they spiritual, physical, emotional, familial, and/or political, we may not always understand what God is doing; we can’t recognize the signs God has given us because the outcomes look so different (for now).

So, it was the same way when the two disciples began to share with Jesus about Jesus—who He was:  a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.  The chief priests and rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death and to be crucified. But these disciples had hoped and even anticipated that He was the promised one who was going to redeem Israel. (Luke 24:20-21)

Sometimes, my friends, we don’t always recognize and understand the things God is doing behind the scenes because things are in disguise or in hiding (for a time). We are encountering difficult and challenging situations presently and our circumstances can cause us to feel painful, dreadful, and doubtful.  PLEASE, PLEASE know God is at work because God’s plans, purposes, and promises are that He will make a way where there seems to be NO way, He will complete what He has started, He knows the beginning from the end, and He knows the plans and ways to prosper us and give us hope and a future.

Luke 24:25-26

He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?”

What Jesus did with the two disciples on the Road to Emmaus was unfold and describe to them how the prophets and Scriptures had predicted what would happen.  What the two disciples did was listen intently, earnestly, and honestly to Jesus, as truth from the Old Testament about the Messiah was being revealed and unsealed slowly once again. I believe they were being fed personally and intimately with faith and truth by The Truth Giver Himself.  Yet, the full revelation of who they were talking to at that moment was not yet recognizable.

I believe wholeheartedly, God the Father is calling each of us to a deeper and more intimate relationship with The Truth Giver Himself in these days. We need to see His Word opening for us as sons and daughters and not just to rely on others but to walk with Jesus ourselves more closely than ever on our personal Road to Emmaus.

Luke 24:29-30

They urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.  So, he went in to stay with them. When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them.

To “urge,” is another word for to implore, plead, and beseech.  They clearly wanted Jesus to stay and sup with them as it was late, as night was approaching, but also because they perhaps sensed something special about this mystery man.  What powerful words spoken in this verse! This is what WE, The People should be doing—urging Jesus to stay with us in and during this dark time, so that we can have communion (unity and intimacy) with Him.  That meal and that bread literally became the Bread of Life to these sad, disappointed, and discouraged disciples, turning their mourning into gladness and giving them joy for their sorrow and turning their grief into gladness.  What a meal to partake of!  We need to see Him—Jesus—and focus on His resurrection glory and power so our hearts, like these two disciples, will burn within us as revelation deepens into our spirit of the resurrected power and authority we have on this side of Eternity.

Ultimately it is not about our present uncertain situations, but who is redeemer, savior, deliverer overall.  Who is ruling in our hearts and lives in times of disappointment and uncertainty and what does He want to reveal to us?  It’s ultimately about Who walks with us every day on our unpredictable, uncertain roads of life and Who sups with us at our daily tables. This has always been and always will be—Jesus Christ, our Messiah—the one unchanging and dependable person we can count on.

Luke 24:31-32

Then their eyes were opened, and they RECOGNIZED him, and he disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” (capitalization added)

We too must be looking into the “Scriptures” to hear from the Lord.  In doing that, we will see Jesus in His glorious, wondrous, and hopeful resurrection.  The more we understand God’s Word, the more our hearts will hunger and thirst for His Truth and Presence. We will see from Heaven’s perspective and not from our limited viewpoint that gives way to disunity, division, and doubt.

What a spectacular Life Lesson for each of us to hold near and dear in our hearts—a burning passionate heart for Jesus in the midst of loss, disappointment, and disillusionment. God comes suddenly in these times of great perplexity and great pain because He wants to walk, talk as well as remind us of His promises in His Word.  He wants to sup with us at His table of Presence to have our hearts burn with great and deep truths of faith and trust.

When we journey on our Emmaus Road, we can expect Jesus to act in His perfect timing based on His revelation of who He is and what His resurrection represents here and now. Triumph and victory only come from having a resurrected mentality, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith (Hebrews 12:2).  As we are walking with Jesus in all of our life circumstances, our hearts will be burning with fresh revelation from His Word!

That is what happened on the Road to Emmaus, my friends.

My Friends, Here’s What’s Happening at Freedom House:

1. Prayer Counseling: God is greatly blessing our prayer counseling of individuals, couples, and children from around the globe. Jesus is revealing Himself to these folks who have wounded hearts, meeting them on their Emmaus Roads of grief, losses, and disappointments.
2. Teaching & Preaching: On January 31^st, over Zoom Tommy and I will be teaching/ preaching on the Prophetic at a House Church in Bloomington, IL.  Please pray for us.
3. Upcoming Zoom Teaching: On February 28^th, over Zoom Tommy and I will be teaching on: “Lord, Is that You?” Open to all.  Look for details in your Inbox in early February.
4. FHM Schools Resuming 2021: New Dates will soon be up on the FHM Website/Calendar for our Schools which will resume live September 2021 running through April 2022.  As in previous years, we will meet at Kingsland Properties in Carol Stream, IL.
5. YouTube Messages Coming: I am working on YouTube messages entitled: “The Emmaus Road with Mari Anne.” These will be a few minutes of sharing God’s wisdom, truth, and love, journeying together with the Holy Spirit.
6. Staff Training: I’ll be preparing a Staff Training and Spiritual Refreshment time for FHM Staff and Small Group Leaders coming this Spring, also meeting at Kingsland Properties.
7. New Head Intercessor: God has brought us our new Head Intercessor, who will be following in Rose Marie’s footsteps, retrieving prayer request phone messages and getting them out to the appropriate Intercessor to pray. She will also have brief but poignant teachings periodically on Zoom.  More about this in our next article, but you or someone you know can call 708-656-3658 and leave a prayer request.

Thankful for Your Donation to FHM:

Your thoughtful and prayer-filled donation of any amount during this ongoing pandemic season means so much to us.  We do not take it for granted, to say the least.  We continue to proclaim His faithfulness to the perplexed, the fearful, and the wounded hearts that come to us for prayer ministry.  Your financial support enables us to walk with so many on their own lonely, lost, deserted Emmaus Road. The Holy Spirit opens their eyes to Jesus so that their hearts burn within them, and they can depart rejoicing in resurrection life and victory. Without your support, we couldn’t do what God has called us to do.

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With My Burning Heart of Love & Thankfulness,

Mari Anne Andersen

Director, Freedom House Ministry

Each New Year I present to Freedom House’s Family and Friends what I hear and sense from the Lord for this New Year as it stretches before us.  It’s a time in which I pray, read, and seek the Lord’s heart and listen to His small, still voice in my spirit.  I saturate myself in His Presence to receive His thoughts, His directions, and instructions for the New Year.  It is also a time when I DO NOT listen to other prophets in what they heard and received so I would not be swayed by their thoughts and voice.

In addition, this year is a bit different.  Of course, I still have been seeking and searching for His heart for 2021, but, unlike other years, there has been a lot of intercessory prayers focused on our President and this recent election.  I will attempt to share my heart as well as my sense from the Father’s Heart in these epoch and unprecedented times.

In reference to the Emmaus Road, it is one that the Father wants us to journey together with Him as it states in Luke 24.  In 2021, He is calling us to pursue deeper truths so that grace mixed with faith and love, poured over us in 2021, can more greatly abound.  This is just Part 1 of what I sense. I feel the need and urgency to get this out there first for your reading, and secondly especially for your praying into this situation that we find ourselves in. 

There are two sides within my heart, a side that is in sorrow and grief over what is happening in our nation and then another side in which I get excited because we are on a cusp of a major reformation and revival.

I believe some of the things the Father is saying to each of us in the Body of Christ is . . .

This will be a year for our pursuit of truth—a declaration for truth and a declaration of independence once again.  We cannot stand idly by and bury our heads in the sand and believe everything the “media” is broadcasting, which is a lot of baseless propaganda.  There has been an agenda that has been playing out and more and more we see biblical Christianity under great attack and even under siege.   We, “The People,” need to arise and shine to see from heaven’s perspective and to begin to war in the heavenlies for our nation.  We are in a fight for this nation, for our families, and for the pursuit of truth and for God’s redemptive plan for the USA.

This is a call for us to stand tall and straight in the face of many great challenges and to not bow down to Baal.  Take a stand for His truth and for His ways and separate yourself from the things of Baal worship.  This is a time to stand on the Biblical principles of His truth, not the world’s.  Also, don’t get caught up in the places of passivity, apathy, and indifference.  This is a time for YOU to fight for the truth, but before you fight for the truth, YOU need to know the true truth, you need to research what is the truth in these times.

We are in a battle in which progressive liberalism is invading all the places and spaces of our beliefs in our churches, families, media and even our Constitution.  Double standards are in play all around us and the progressives don’t even bat an eye at their double standards.  There is such an arrogance and overconfidence as they strut their policies and lies.

We cannot just sit back and allow this time in history to be taken from us; America, our nation, our Constitution, and our freedom of speech are all under assault. Furthermore, the division that has emerged in our nation is truly a big, vast chasm.  We the people NEED to shout out our voices for truth, and I, for one, will shout out!

“THIS ELECTION WAS RIGGED!” There has been fraud, crime, and underhandedness all in play, and I believe that the liberal media is part of the art of the steal, along with the BIG techs that had a part in this rigged election.

Please don’t simply take the liberal media’s word, and, even for that matter, don’t even take my word.  I will give you some links below to search out the matter yourself.  Get wise, lean into your discernment, and understand what the Father wants YOU to do in this pivotal time in our history.

“Getting wisdom is the most important thing you can do?  And with your wisdom, develop common sense and good judgment.”  (Proverbs 4:7 TLB)

God the Father is asking you to journey with Him on the Road to Emmaus, and Emmaus represents revelatory insights, mysteries of His Spirit open up for understanding the things in His Kingdom which are NOT of this world. 

The definition of wisdom: “wisdom is the ability to perceive the true nature of a situation and to implement the will of God in that situation.  Wisdom is the practical application of God’s truth to a specific situation.  Wisdom is knowing what God wants you to do and then doing it.”

The liberal media is totally ignoring credible, reliable, and trustworthy allegations that are given in sworn affidavits by hundreds and hundreds of witnesses, under penalty of a felony, who have evidence to back up their claims regarding this fraudulent election.  There were so many anomalies that were ignored by the left, the media, and the “socialist” party that is coming into our ways and life in this nation.  We need to get back to a nation UNDER GOD AND FOR GOD.

The integrity of our election impacts the future of the United States and even the entire world.  Truthfully, this election is no longer about Trump and Biden.  It is much bigger and greater than that.  It’s about our democracy, our voice, and our vote.  Thomas Paine put it this way. . .

“To Take Away (Voting) is to Reduce a Man to Slavery.”

Thomas Paine

God the Father is calling on me—and YOU—to have a voice in speaking out, praying out, and standing out regarding this election by find out how this election was stolen.

We are in a moment again—of 1776—to echo our forefathers’ voice for truth, for justice for our nation.  Don’t hide your light but be a source for THE LIGHT—the Light of Christ.

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. This means that government gets all its power from the people. According to the Declaration of Independence, the government gets its power to govern from the people that it governs.

This is our time to rise up and take a bold stand, to move into our pursuit of truth, as we walk on the Road to Emmaus gaining deeper insight, wisdom, and discernment so we can discover God’s true heart in this time in 2021.

I will be sharing Part 2 in the days to come: In 2021, the Father wants us to have those “Encounters & Experiences” on the Emmaus Road so that our hearts will burn within as He walks and talks with us (Luke 24:32).  Stay tuned!

Pray with me:

Father, I pray that “We the People” can walk with You on the Road to Emmaus, to have an encounter with You for truth, for renewal, and for Your Grace of love to burn within our hearts to find truth for our nation in this crucial and pivotal time.

Jesus, help us to be in the pursuit for truth and justice in our nation, in our lives, and in our daily walk with You. 

Father, I pray for grace mixed with faith and love to be poured over us and all around in this time. 

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Here are a few websites to find out truth:

Flash Point News – Poignant, Objective, Stimulating

• How prophecy and current events are aligning to usher in the greatest awakening the world has ever known.
• https://www.govictory.com/FlashPoint

Mario Murillo Ministries – Living Proof

• Up to date practical and spiritual information in the political
• https://mariomurilloministries.wordpress.com

Breaking Christian News:

• Minister’s blasphemous prayer opening 117^th Congress & Banning of Gender Terms such as “mother” “father” etc.
• https://www.breakingchristiannews.com/index.php

Liberty Counsel:

• Sworn Affidavits
• https://lc.org/voterfraud

PLEASE WATCH THIS – TOMMY TRIED TO PLACE IT ON FACEBOOK BUT THEY REMOVED IT:

• “2020 Election Investigative Documentary: Who’s Stealing America?”
• https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/2020-election-investigation-who-is-stealing-america_3617562.html

The Epoch Times app:

• “Get Real News Other Media Outlets Don’t Report”

• https://ept.ms/DownloadApp

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I wanted to share my thoughts and feelings at this time, as America finds herself in a great stormy squall that has overtaken our nation, our constitution, and our rights as voters (some voters).  I totally realize that I will probably get many dislikes, many rebukes and many emails stating how wrong I am.  However, this has been the beauty (thus far) of being able to have “Freedom of Speech,” but sadly this too is slowly eroding and corroding away.  Please finish this whole article before you cast a stone, my friends.  I felt the absolute need and urgency to send this out ASAP. 

Here are some of the emails and phone calls I have been receiving regarding this election:

1. What is going on?
2. I’m so afraid – we are in jeopardy!
3. The prophets spoke – what happened?
4. What is God doing?
5. Didn’t He hear our prayers?
6. Why is this happening? 
7. We didn’t pray hard enough!

I can sum it up all in Mark 4:35-38 as the Lord gave me this a few weeks ago, and I would like to express and confess this to you at this time.  Let’s read it:

³⁵ That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” ³⁶ Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. ³⁷ A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. ³⁸ Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”

³⁹ He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.

⁴⁰ He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?”

⁴¹ They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”

There is so much here that represents what we are experiencing, what we are seeing, and what we are literally living through in real time.  I know that God has called me to be a “Watchman on the Tower,” and I want to share with you what I see at this time as well as what I am watching.

We see in the preceding chapters of the Gospels—BEFORE the Calming  of the Waters—Jesus, as the Messiah, Jesus, as the Teacher, Jesus as the Healer, and Jesus who demonstrates His authority and identity in a profound and real way where the disciples were up close and personal as first-hand witnesses.

Jesus Turns Water into Wine – John 2:1-11

Jesus Heals an Official’s Son at Capernaum – John 4:43

Jesus Drives Out an Evil Spirit from a Man – Mark 1:21, Luke 4:43

Jesus Heals Peter’s Mother-in-Law – Mathew 8:14, Mark 1:29, Luke 4:

Jesus Heals Sick & Oppressed at Evening – Mathew 8:16, Mark 1:32, Luke 4:40

First Miraculous Catch of Fish – Luke 5:1-11

Jesus Cleanses a Man with Leprosy – Mathew 8:14, Mark 1:40-45, Luke 5:12-14

Jesus Heals a Centurion’s Paralyzed Servant – Mathew 8:15, Luke 7:10

Jesus Heals a Paralytic – Mathew 9:1-18, Mark 2:12, Luke 5:17-26

Jesus Heals a Man’s Withered Hand – Mathew 12:9-14, Mark 3:1-6, Luke 6:6-11

Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son from the Dead – Luke 7:11-17

Now, Jesus weary from a very long day of teaching, praying, healing, and mentoring told His disciples – “Let’s Go to the Other Side.” Please hear this because I believe Jesus is already given a promise for us in this nation of reaching the other side.  He already gave clear instructions, directions, directives, and assurances in reaching the place of victory, of history making, and of seeing our nation under God once again through President Donald J. Trump.  He already spoke the Word telling His disciples we will be over there shortly. 

I see many of us screaming, crying, and in terror for Jesus to wake up as He is sleeping ever so soundly in the place of peace and blessed assurance that His Father has this, and nothing can thwart His divine purpose. 

I love this picture of Jesus sleeping soundly, comfortably, and securely.

Remember, my Christians Saints, when God/Jesus states something you can be well-assured nothing, nor no one can and will thwart (prevent, stop, foil) the plan of the Lord’s (Job 42:2) in reaching the other side. The Lord’s purpose will always prevail reaching the other side NO matter what the eye sees in the natural, no matter what is being out-maneuvered (manipulated, schemed and plotted) because the Lord works out everything for His own end (Proverb 16:4) and that was to “Reach to the Other Side.” 

Now it states in Mark 4: 35 – “a furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat.” 

Let me explain what a furious squall literally means in the Greek:  A whirlwind, tempestuous wind, earthquake, squall.  It was not just a few high winds and waves BUT a cyclone of a storm that came out of NO-where.  It was suddenly, shockingly, unexpectedly that harsh waves of the sea overcame them and engulfed their boat with water, putting them in grave jeopardy, peril, and danger.  Surely this was something they did not expect to happen as they had just been a part of Jesus’ ministry of healing and calling people to life, liberty, and to pursue truth in Him.

Being expert and experienced fishermen, they have been in many of storms but had never been in or seen a storm such as this one.  Rarely does a major storm happen at this time and particularly when they had Jesus their teacher, healer, and Savior in the boat with them when all should be well.  They had not just the promises but the Promise Keeper with them. 

Please envision this with me: Jesus deeply sleeping as this tempestuous squall is happening, the boat is severely and fiercely rocking to and fro, the water is soaking everyone and everything including Jesus, and the disciples. I’m sure, they are screaming, maybe some even crying, but surely yelling loudly in panic and fear. Feelings of all their hopes, miracles, and faith from that extraordinary day seem to slowly evaporate into clouds of watery and wet eyes of dread and terror.  They were looking death right in the face.  And yet, our Precious Lord is steadfast asleep from the day of victory, weariness, and triumph. Jesus is surely in a place of safety and comfort—in His Father’s Presence.

So many are in fear and dread of our situation and circumstance with Trump and the election. So many are engulfed with anxiety.  I want to encourage you as a Watchmen on the Tower:  Just wait and watch!  Just wait and watch for Jesus will rise and rebuke the wind and say to the waves: “Quiet! Be Still!”

Then, He will turn toward YOU and ask you: “Why are you so fearful?” and “How is it that you have no or little faith?” The storm did not disturb or disrupt Jesus’ sleep. I believe Jesus wanted His disciples to exercise what they saw just a few hours beforehand—the proof,  the evidence, and the reality of the One who did the impossible—the One who raised the widow’s son from the dead, the One who cleansed leprosy, and the One who even taught them to pray line-by-line.   

What is the Father saying here in this time?  Why do you think He is allowing these events to unfold this way since November 3, 2020 Election Day?  Were all the prophets wrong?  Did He not hear the righteous prayers that avail much in this time? 

What I can say for sure: Jesus is still in the boat with us.  He gave us specific orders and directives: Take the boat to the other side.  No matter what you experience, see, and unfold in front of you, hold fast to God promise(s). I am doing just that because I believe President Donald J. Trump will be re-elected after everything is said and done.  Also, the truth will prevail, things will be uncovered, discovered, and recovered because God is a God that will NOT be mocked.  Everything has been such a fight for this President in these last 4 years. Did we really expect it to be an extremely easy and simple thing to “Drain the Swamp?”  We need to come together in prayer and hold fast to the sounds of God’s Promises.  It is not time to surrender the white flag.  It is not time to dissolve into tears and despair. Instead, it is time to put your combat boots on and march into the War Room of Heaven and Hell to take back what the enemy has stolen.  Do not give in nor give up because God is in the Boat with us and He said, “Let’s Go to the Other Side.”  This is not about us—it’s all about HIM and what He has called YOU, ME and this Nation under God to do.

God is calling US—Christians—to put our fighting gloves on in the spirit as well as speaking out our support for our President, Donald J. Trump.  I am so sure you will have family, Christian friends, and neighbors become really mad at you and even say and do some harmful things, but my people parish for a lack of knowledge.

Hosea 4:6 – My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, because you have rejected knowledge. Look to investigate the fraud, the stolen and misplaced ballots, the machines in the states that fix the votes and find witnesses.  Don’t just swallow all that is being reported to you. 

Proverbs 29:18 – Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint but blessed is he who keeps the law.  God is calling us back to the basic truth of His Word.

John 8:32 – And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Freedom only comes with His truth and the truth is we are under a corporate stronghold of lies and a corporate stronghold of corrupt power from the media, the left, and Antifa. They have an agenda, and they want us to drink the Kool-Aid.

Whereas Jesus is calling us to life and life abundantly here in America.  Then we can see true reformation and revival, His glorious favor resting upon us to be that beacon of light and hope for other nations.

In conclusion, after Jesus quietened the storm and stilled the waters, the disciples experienced another type of terror, and asked each other, “Who is this?  Even the wind and the waves obey him!”

They were coming into realization and comprehension of this One by the question, “Who is this?” Yet they had much to learn from, to seek after, and to grow in the knowledge of the Lord, the Savior, and the Ruler of all.  Having come through this very fearsome incident of the storm was the One that would write upon their hearts the majesty, the supremacy, and the sovereignty of their Messiah, of Jesus who took complete lordship over the realm of nature making His disciples very certain of His divinity.

I believe that is what He is writing upon our hearts in this “Storm of this Election:” that we will see Jesus in His divinity.  The Good News here is we are having front-row seats to stand in the gap for our nation, for our President, and for what God has spoken to His Prophets.  If we are to remain steadfast followers, steadfast to His promises, and steadfast to His Word, the Body of Christ needs to learn to fight the good fight because today our battle is NOT against flesh and blood, but against Satan and his evil plans.  These are principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness, so Paul warned the believers we had better put on the whole armor of God to be able to withstand the tricks and deceptions of Satan.  This is the fight we are in!

I would highly encourage you to listen to Lance Wallnau, November 6, 2020, YouTube titled—”Don’t be Intimidated”—a must see.

Are your ears filled, packed, and stuffed with the sound of God’s promises for you, your family, and for us as a nation?  If your ears are not packed or jammed with the sound of God’s promises for you, then my strong recommendation is to begin filling up your ears with His sound of promise(s).  There are so many promises God has given to us BECAUSE His very nature and character is a Promise Giver and a Promise Keeper. God’s promises are always absolute, reliable, enduring, everlasting and without end, my friend.

Know that YOUR only hope rests upon His promises – not the government’s promises, not any political party’s promises, and not any race, color or creed’s promises.  All of God’s promises were fulfilled in Christ, our Lord and Savior—in Him alone!   Remember, God’s promises are a “sure-thing,” the “only sure thing,” and the “everlasting sure thing.”  So again, my friend, fill and pack your ears with God’s sound of promises in this strategic time in our nation, in our church, in our family, and in our culture.

Life as we know it right now in America, seems chockfull with a great many setbacks, with lack of jobs, finances, families split, and our culture divided and burning.  There are a great many disappointments and a great amount of upheaval in so many circumstances and situations.

This finds us depleted and scrambling for answers, for true truth and for assurances.  Our world today, as we hear and see, is filled all around with a lot of “Words, Promises and Rhetoric” from politicians and theologians stating their guarantees and their slogans of their truth fulfilling narratives.

Thank God, for our God, who keeps His Word always, constantly, and continually because He never changes – Hebrews 10:23 tells us, “God who promised is faithful.” His promises keep us going, encourage our hope, feed our disappointments, and water our commitment to keep moving forward with great expectations and optimistic outlooks.  The setbacks, the hindrances and the difficulties are giving ALL of us opportunities and openings to move into fervent prayer, into true repentance, and into true soul-searching of God’s narrative and of God’s promises.  Our ears need to be filled with the sound of His promises ONLY!

He is calling YOU and ME to go deeper into His Presence, into His Power, and into His Peace. He is calling YOU and ME to receive His revelation of His Holy Presence, to recognize His promises, and to rely upon Him alone because He cannot lie, and He is a promise-keeping God.

These disturbing times and seasons we are in are not taking God unawares nor by surprise. He is very aware and very conscious of our nation and culture being in crises. He is looking to me and you to step into our place and station to intercede, to intervene, and to repent on behalf of all the injustices, sins, and crimes that have flooded our world at this time.

We all need to be promoted to the rank of warrior and soldier, as part of the Christian armed forces moving in the heavenly realms and below in this earthly realm. Join the battle for our nation, this generation and for this culture as it was founded under God, the only True God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  Without doubt, our nation was founded on the Declaration of Independence, the Paris Peace Treaty, and the Constitution. Henceforth, my friends, these documents are conclusive and full of proof that America was initiated, founded, and established as a Christian nation.  We need to get back to our roots as Christian believers who hold these certain unalienable rights endowed by our Creator.

Our Declaration has many references to God throughout the document and here are some:

• Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God
• Appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World
• With a firm Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence

Did you know that from 1775 to 1784 the Congresses of the United States issued sixteen separate spiritual proclamations, calling Americans to humble themselves, fast, pray and give thanks to God?  Congress issued spiritual proclamations in which they asked citizens to seek the Lord in one of the darkest moments of the nation’s history.

Imagine this if President Trump, Mitch McConnel, Mark Meadows, Lindsey Graham, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer to name a few would come on national TV on all stations of the local news and issue all Americans to pray, to humble themselves, fast, and seek the Lord for His enlightenment and truth for our nation and to use the Bible as our sure foundation once again!

He is looking to YOU and ME to enter His Holy of Holies with a passionate and ardent heart of prayer.  How much are you seeking Him, how much prayer-time are you praying for our times in our nation and culture?  How much “knee-time” have you been giving to Him?  How much are you staying in His presence to hear and receive His truth of promises?  Are your ears filled with the sound of God’s promises for our nation?

We are in the middle of a war on almost every front, whether it is with the high-pitched fever in the different political arenas, our war on black lives matter and a war on blue lives matter.  The war on our spiritual heritage, on our constitutional heritage, and the war of our media (or lack thereof), the war on Academia and the war in the Body of Christ.  I think we have hit every mountain that is at war and is being jeopardized with civil and spiritual unrest.

For many of us believers, we could be in danger by looking back, by standing still, by giving up, by falling short, and by listening to our own narrative and not God’s.  That is why it is imperative to fill YOUR ears with the sounds of God’s promise(s), to know what we are called to do at this time as sons and daughters of the Most High God and to know what His high commands and demands are for us in this season.  To know God’s promises and to meditate upon those promises, so we can have hope, comfort, and assurance in order for our spirits to be revived, restored, and replenished in these perilous times is our utmost spiritual and civic task.

May your ears be filled with just some of God’s Promises as I just quote a few for you here:

• Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life.  Psalm 23:6
• He guides the humble in what is right and teaches his way.  Psalm 25:9
• In the day of trouble, he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle and set me high on a rock.  Psalm 27:5
• The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him. Psalm 28:7
• How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you.  Psalm 31:19
• I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go.  Psalm. 32:8
• The righteous cry out and the Lord hears them.  Psalm 34:19
• For the Lord loves the just and will not forsake his faithful one.  They will be protected forever.  Psalm 37:28
• Wait for the Lord and keep His way.  He will exalt you to possess the land. Psalm 37:34
• I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.  Psalm 73:23
• For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.  Deuteronomy 20:4
• The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave nor forsake you.  Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Deuteronomy 31:8
• He Himself is our peace.  Ephesians 2:14
• Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.  Hebrews 13:5
• The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.  What can man do to me?  Hebrews 13:6
• He is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.  Hebrews 7:25
• You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.  1 Peter 2:9
• The Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one. 1 Thessalonians 3:3
• I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters. 2 Corinthians 6:18
• He will deliver us.  2 Corinthians 1:10
• Praise be to God. . . of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
• You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. Isaiah 26:3

My Prayer for America:
Thank you, Lord, that You love America, and we will bring forth precious fruit before You our Maker and Creator.  America is filled with an abundance of wonderful potential and promise because we are a nation under You, our endowed Creator.

I decree and declare that my nation is turning back to You, our Savior and Risen Lord.  All the branches of government and all the political parties shall embrace and hold fast to Your truths in Your Holy Word.  I decree that all who serve You in government will call upon Your name, they will humble themselves and pray and seek Your face as they will turn from their wicked ways. 

Each law maker, each representative, and each delegate will have an encounter with You the true Redeemer, the Great I AM, and the Holy One of Israel.  Righteousness, truth, and justice will be activated and motivated to the fullness of Your wisdom in all that they will do and say.  I also declare and decree that the Body of Christ is actively walking and serving the Lord being strong in His mighty power. 

Each church, church leader, and member will put on the full armor of God so that they can stand against any of the schemes of the evil one.  The full armor of God is clothed upon each son and daughter with the belt of truth buckled around the waist, putting on the breastplate of righteousness, and the feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.  In addition to all this, they will take up the shield of faith and the helmet of salvation, along with the sword of the Spirt which is the Word of God.  (Ephesians 6)

Righteousness will thrive, prosper, and flourish in every home, every church, and in every family in Jesus’ Name because He is the exalted Lord over this nation!

In Jesus’ Name, Amen and Amen.

Thank you, dear partners, for filling your ears with God’s promises as this is what Freedom House is all about as we proclaim His promises of hope to the wounded, the lonely, the fearful, the perplexed. Along with the Holy Spirit, we walk with them during these especially confusing, desperate, and uncertain times, pointing them to Jesus. Your prayerful and generous donation of any amount during this difficult season means so much to us. We do not take it for granted given all the pressures that we all are under.

With My Heart of Love & Thanksgiving,

Mari Anne Andersen
Director, Freedom House Ministry

Dear Eagle Saints,

I wanted to share with you the Word of the Lord as well as releasing and encouraging YOU with His loving kindness and His loving faithfulness.  I pray as you read this word you would immediately feel His Presence, His Power, and His Peace that surpasses all understanding filling your heart and spirit with His Good News of promise.  Though so much unrest, uncertainty, and unraveling are happening in our times, please know this: “God Does Not Change and He Will Always Keep His Promises.”

So, it is with this introduction I will release the Word of the Lord over you. . .

Bedazzled and Not Frazzled

Psalm 92:14 – My ears are filled with the sounds of promise:  Good people will prosper like palm trees, grow tall like Lebanon cedars; transplanted to God’s courtyard. They’ll grow tall in the presence of God, lithe and green,

virile still in old age.

For I am releasing My canopy of love and promise – My covering will be hovering upon you.  It is an open heaven in this season for YOU.  Open Heaven to call upon Me – Open Heaven to see My glorious wonders of love rushing & cascading down upon you.  The places of My perfect Kingdom will be ushered in and personally escorted into your life.  Where there has been hurt, disappointment, discouragement, defeat, and dismissive truths – I – Your God will invade those places and spaces to dismantle, disassemble, and demolish. Yes, you have experienced intense pain, intense sadness, and intense disappointment. Your heart has been sick with a sense of hopelessness and grief that kept you in a state of deferment. 

I AM NOW

taking the deferment—postponement, delay and suspension—away and giving YOU an excitement of hope in YOUR HEART for these changes.  A great release of change is here. Keep your eyes and your heart open to hear and see the sight and sounds of Heaven roaring in.  My trumpet sounds have started.  My chorus of angels have been released to bring praises of celebration and jubilation.  My rewards are divinely situated upon YOU – YOU are targeted for My Kingdom glory to rest upon YOU.

I am releasing My Sovereign Spirit in capsules, containers, and pods filled to the brim of love, blessings, and favor. 

This is YOUR SEASON of wonder and awe.  My glory train is ready for delivery. My Amazon Angels have a special delivery reaching to YOUR front door. 

Utter amazement will be yours to see and feel.

So, REST ASSURED.

BEDAZZLED AND NOT FRAZZLED IS MY PROMISE TO YOU

Bedazzled is your word from Me, your God on high, for it means to be greatly impressed. My outstanding abilities will be personalized and customized to YOU.  You will be dumbfounded, overwhelmed, stunned, astounded, and enchanted.  Remember…

Bedazzled and NOT Frazzled

Psalm 89:15-18

Blessed are the people who know the passwords of praise, who shout on parade in the bright presence of God.  Delighted, they dance all day long; they know who You are, what You do – they can’t keep it quiet! Your vibrant beauty has gotten inside of us – you’ve been so good to us!  We’re walking on air! All we are and have, we owe to God, Holy God of Israel, our King!  (MSG)

 

Heartfelt Thanks for Your Donations:

I want to thank you for how you have been faithful to us and Freedom House during this time when so many things around us are financially uncertain.  Please continue to pray for Freedom House as God leads you and please continue to pray as God leads you to give financially. We continue this great work of reaching people’s hearts and seeing many lives changed by proclaiming liberty, releasing destiny, and harvesting humanity, our three pillars.  God is at work in us, through us and by us.  Great things are happening, and we are seeing many lives touched.

Please go on our website (www.freedomhouseministry.com) and choose Make a Donation where you can use PayPal or your own credit card.

Freedom House Schools are OPEN!

As you have probably read in our recent emails, Freedom House will be resuming our Schools after a year of rest following my mother’s homegoing to Glory.  Both Course 201 and 202 will be taught on the same Saturdays, starting Saturday, September 19 at Kingsland Properties in Carol Stream.  Applications are due by Wednesday, August 26.

Go on our website (www.freedomhouseministry.com) and click on the Schools to get an application, to be filled out as a fillable PDF and submitted to me by email or download a hardcopy, fill it in, and send it in by US mail.  All the details are found online.

Thank you.

Blessings of love,

Mari Anne

“I saw God before me for all time.  Nothing can shake me; he’s right by my side.  I’m glad from the inside out, ecstatic; I’ve pitched my tent in the land of hope.  I know you’ll never dump me in Hades; I’ll never even smell the stench of death.  You’ve got my feet on the life-path, with your face shining sun-joy all around.”

(Acts 2:25-28 The Message)

 

This scripture releases the magnitude and extravagance of God’s divine love for us and I believe He is right by our side even in the midst of this plague-like virus.  My strong recommendation to you during this season is to “Pitch Your Tent in the Land of Hope” and to know God has great and mighty plans in this season. We are approaching Pentecost at the end of May.  I surely do not think it’s consequential being shut-in during Passover and Pentecost.  Literally we have entered a modern-day Passover.  We will have our Exodus, we will have our Red Sea parted, and we will cross over to the promises just like the Israelites.

I believe we are the cusp of something heavenly, epically, and majestically massive in our nation and globally.  We know the Passover, Egypt had to let go of God’s people and the oppression of slavery, fear, and poverty.  God’s people needed a whole new mind shift leaving Egyptian ways of thinking and living.  They needed an “Exodus” as well as aligning themselves with God’s plan and purposes.  They needed to get their minds renewed, restored, and needed to repent in the ways they became like the Egyptians.

My friends, we too have become complacent in the ways of the Lord, we have become apathic, fear-based people sleeping through the life and not taking a rightful position as a mighty warrior in the Army God.  We have retreated, surrendered and in some ways grieved and stifled the Holy Spirit.

2 Chronicles 7:13-14  states it clearly: When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.  (NIV)

This is a time to repent for our own individual lifestyles, repent on behalf of our nation and all the injustices, all the compromises and all the anti-Christ ways that has slipped into our government, schools, churches and even into own hearts.   This is a time to pitch our tent in the land of hope by retrieving and taking back what the enemy has stolen.  The enemy has squeezed its way into politics, media, into academia and into our families.  We are in a corporate strong hold in America and during this time I believe we have had a “Divine Interruption” so that we can re-align ourselves with what the Father wants to do in our nation, culture, churches and family.

During this Passover and Pentecost Season, I strongly sensed that the Holy Spirit yearns to do something colossal and intervene in wondrous and glorious ways nationally and globally.  We are strategically in a place in which God wants to disrupt business as usual.  The Holy Spirit craves to pour out a fresh anointing of His Holy Fire and a fresh Baptism of power in our “Upper Room” as we are in confinement.

We need to look to a new future as did the Israelites; we need to take our rightful places as the Kids of the King and not be intimidated in our faith, our convictions or in our love for the Father in all spheres of life.  We need to take back our government with the truth and principles of our Creator, we need to infiltrate the media and schools with God’s truth and get back to the foundations of our God.  We need to look to the future as God’s people who know the times and seasons as we transition into the NEW.

A new normal needed to come into the Israelites existence—a  new transference of His Spirit economically, spiritually and culturally, a new structured way of thinking, doing and living needed to rise up in their lives because God gave them a redo, a recalibrating, and a resetting into the ways of Jehovah Yahweh.  This is our time to have a redo and a resetting.
Chuck Pierce said, “the first part of reconciliation is between heaven and earth and that is the key to understand.  When heaven and earth is reconciled, the land begins to prosper.”  God wants His people, you and me, to prosper in everyway and in every area – coming into clarity in a new way in 2020.   This is a time to declare, decree, and deliver the promises God has given YOU!  This is time to pray and fast for our nation, our president and his cabinet, and to see our nation under God once again.

What We Can Do in This Time Before Pentecost?

This is the time for the Holy Spirit to lead us to conviction of our sins, to show us how we are not living up to the righteousness of Jesus Christ.  To enable us to have the gift of repentance in order to repent and confess our sins and yield to the Holy Spirit’s ways so our ways will be reckoned dead to sin and alive in Christ Jesus.  As believers baptized in the Holy Spirit, we are empowered in and through Him to live a holy life and to have the Holy Spirit as our Helper to become more and more like Christ.  To be filled up continually and regularly with His Spirit of truth, power, and love to keep on keeping on.  So, in this time we can … Cry Out More for the Holy Spirit!

Passover to Promise:  Our revival and reformation only happen when we know and understand the places of the Holy Spirit for He is the conduit to become who God created us to be in this season of time.  It’s through His power that we have help in all and every situation and circumstance in pre and post COVID-19.  Truly without Him we are rendered powerless.

“The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.” – Billy Graham

Passover to Promise:  That is where the Holy Spirit is wanting to take us in this strategic time so that we can be in His protection, provision, presence, providence, and prominence

.  This is the time in which the Holy Spirit wants to take us supernaturally into empowering, enabling, and equipping us to new revelatory insights, strategies, and realms of His

Presence – a Boom in the Upper Room.

As our Divine Helper, the Holy Spirit enables us to live a flourishing life that illuminates and reflects God’s glory and beauty here and now:  kingdom life, kingdom culture, and kingdom philosophy.

“Nevertheless, I tell you the truth:  it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you.  But if I go, I will send him to you.”
John 16:7 (ESV)

The Holy Spirit is our compass. He guides us, leads us to do the will of our Father God and helps us to be in tune to the ways of the Father.  He directs our steps as our Way-Maker for all things to become possible.  As our Way-Maker, He gives us gifts to carry out His service in each of us, whether it is the gift of wisdom, gift of knowledge, gift of faith or healing.  He is our Way-Maker for miracles and for our ability to prophecy and interpret.  He is our Voice-Maker, giving us words of life to release hope, faith, and promises of our Father.  To sustain us in times of trouble and give us perseverance, steadfastness, and diligence to rise up and soar on eagle wings and not to become weary in doing good because He knows in due season, we will reap a harvest. Some Scriptures we can pray during this time as we seek hope:

Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;  perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
Romans 5:3-5 (NIV)

The Holy Spirit is our Hope-Maker, our Peace-Maker, and our Love-Maker:
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.”
Romans 15:13 (NIV)

“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you,”
John 14:26 (NIV)

He presented himself alive to them in many different settings over a period of forty days.  In face-to-face meetings, he talked to them about things concerning the kingdom of God.  As they met and ate meals together, he told them that they were on no account to leave Jerusalem but “must wait for what the Father promised: the promise you heard from me.  John baptized in water;  you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.  And soon.”
Acts 1:3-5 (The Message)

Like the disciples, we are in a very similar situation. We cannot leave our homes (our Jerusalem) so we need to meet Jesus in our times of seclusion, meals, fellowship with family, our times of worship, praying, and soaking in the ways of the Kingdom.

Dear Father God,

You are yearning to release the power, presence, and purpose of the Holy Spirit in greater force in our lives, churches, and in a global awakening for the great harvest.  Holy Spirit, we need YOU to help us to lean into ALL your ways, to grow more in love with YOU, and to appreciate YOU more in our lives.  We come in Your Presence O Lord, to draw strength and wisdom from our Fountain of Life.  Come fill us up!  Come with a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit’s Fire and release a fresh Baptism of power to love, serve, and honor You.

Forgive us Holy Spirit for ways we have grieved You, for ways we have stifled Your flow, and for ways we have not listened to Your quiet still voice of conviction.  Help us prepare for You in this season of Pentecost that we can see extraordinary signs and wonders of the glorious kingdom invading our heart, home, and land.

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Dear folks, your support has been a huge blessing, in and during this time.  Please know I am very grateful for your faithfulness, for your generosity, and for your prayers.  God is working in great ways here in Freedom House, and it’s thrilling to see lives touched and changed.  We have our new website up and running, several new people around the globe for Prayer Counseling, my mom’s book is being edited, and the Elijah House Course 201 & 202 Schools will begin in September.  We have new Board Members: one with a prophetic voice and two of our pastors from the past, who now reside in Wisconsin, will be coming down for the board meetings.  That’s dedication!  We will be holding a Prophetic Weekend (dates to be released end of May).  Finally, we will hold a Pentecost Prayer Meeting via Zoom with staff and Board Members on May 23rd . . . a new way of doing church for now!

Your donation of any amount at this difficult season means so much to us, and we do not take it for granted. Thank you for pitching your tent in our land of hope, as this is what Freedom House is all about as we extend hope to the wounded, the lonely, the fearful, the perplexed, and along with the Holy Spirit walk with them during this especially confusing, hopeless, and uncertain time.

You can go online at http://www.freedomhouseministry.com and then choose “Make a Donation” using PayPal or your own credit card.  Also, you can mail a check made out to Freedom House Ministries, and mail it to Freedom House, c/o The Andersens, 3217 Scoville Ave, Berwyn, IL  60402-3546.

With My Heart of Love,

Mari Anne Andersen
Director, Freedom House Ministry