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Pray for our Port Cities & How to Prepare
 Tracy M. Schellhorn
 Mar 8, 2007

 

I would like to ask everyone to please pray for our port cities.

 

The Lord has laid this on my heart in a strong way, and I am seeing Him do this with others as well. So, my place of obedience is to get the word out as best I can and ask others to do the same. Please forward this to people you believe need to know or to people who will pray.

 

We must be prepared in both the natural and the spiritual realms.

 

We have to pray the death and destruction out of storms, terrorist attacks, criminal activity and any other potential calamities.

 

Sometimes, our prayers will actually avert the intended incident. Other times, our prayers can make the difference in the amount of damage done.

 

For a while, I have felt port cities were in danger. I know I’m not alone in this, but I cannot give an exhaustive list of everyone who has felt this way or sounded the alarm. I’ll do my best to encapsulate the warning here.

 

What I See

 
I’ll start with what I see. I have felt a concern for the Northeastern coast – specifically Boston Harbor, Long Island and the waterways surrounding Manhattan Island.
 
I also have a concern for the ports and petroleum industry along the Mississippi – Louisiana – Texas coasts.
 
I see fire and flooding. It’s possible that the flooding comes from waves, but it could come from another source. I have also seen “waves of fire” engulfing communities. I believe this is especially a warning for refineries and communities based around refineries. Please cover these refineries and their surrounding communities with prayer.
                                                                                                  
I’ve seen fire on both coasts – Northeast & Gulf of Mexico, but on the Gulf, I have had the sense of oil burning on top of the water. However, the water was not just out in the Gulf; it was also inland. In other words, there was burning water where there is now land.
 
What Others See
 
I was in a recent prophetic roundtable in the Northeast, and the theme of waves and disaster by sea was echoed throughout the roundtable. Even the concern over Boston Harbor was very clearly confirmed. I don’t have all the names and exact transcripts of that meeting at this time, but I will try to get them in order to share with you.
 
Last month, Jeanette Reed, a long-time prophetic intercessor for various ministries around the world, and currently serving as armor bearer and intercessor for Robert and Joyce Ricciardelli through Visionary Advancement Strategies, www.vision2advance.com issued the following warning for the ports and gave me permission to include it here:
 
 
 
"The Lord told me, 'We are to be prepared.'"
Three years ago, the Lord showed me a vision of a time of calamity . . . The scene the Lord showed me for the time of calamity was of "a fire."  A city lay in rubble and everything was gray.  It came suddenly.  Communication was gone, infrastructure was gone.  I believe this is coming soon.  I do not know if it is a terrorist attack or natural disaster.  But I hear the Lord saying, "It is coming."
The second part of the scene was of ports and cities.  There were lines going from city to city.  Multiple cities will be affected, and multiple cities will have places of refuge and relational connections of communities of faith.

 
In addition to what has been revealed to Jeanette, well-respected prophetic voice and intercessor, Cindy Jacobs, released a warning last night regarding ports and calling for the intercessors to arise. The Lord had already been speaking to me about issuing a warning today. So, when I finally got to the computer late last night and received her message, I knew that God didn’t mean “sometime.” He meant “now!”
 
Here is an excerpt of Cindy’s message:
 
“Cindy speaks to watchmen and intercessors, calling us to ‘wake up and stand on the wall’  to stay the hand of the enemy. She instructs intercessors to cover the major ports in prayer, including Mobile, Alabama, Annapolis, Maryland and San Diego, California. 
 
For more information from Cindy Jacobs and Generals International, you can go to their website at www.generals.org.
 
Time to Speak
 
I know there are many more who have issued or seen this same warning. However, if I wait to gather all the information together for you, I will have missed the window of time the Lord gave me to release this to the Body. He is emphasizing to me to do what He says WHEN He says do it. That tells me time is of the essence.
 
Last week, my friend Lorri Dresbach got the word that the time of the harvester overtaking the planter had come.  Since that day, I have seen that word come to pass in an amazing way. Words are coming out of my mouth and the mouth of others, and I am seeing them come to pass right away. (It’s shocking after the last season where we have waited so long for the fulfillment of promises, words and warnings.)
                                                       
I say that to tell you that I can always follow up with more information, but I feel I must release this today. If you have more to add to this, please let me know. We are working on a separate website where we can post this kind of information. For now, you can contact us at info@manifestministries.com.
 
How To Prepare
 
In closing, let me tell you the words the Lord has been speaking to me for a week very strongly:
 
Sudden Destruction.
 
Be Prepared.
 
In the coming days, you may not be able to rely on CNN, FOX or The Weather Channel to relay all the information to you in time. You must be prepared now. Stay in a posture of preparedness.   “Sudden Destruction” means destruction that comes on you suddenly – surprising you – catching you off guard. Be ready. 
 
Here are some practical tips the Lord gave me as a friend and I were in powerful intercession to avert a regional disaster:
 
                                                             
  • Stay prayerful. Listen to the still small voice of God that speaks to you.
 
  • Keep some cash on hand -- enough to carry you through a few days in case you can’t get to your money for some reason or there is no electronic access to funds.
 
  • Keep at least half a tank of gas in your car in case you have to leave town in a hurry or gas isn’t available for a period of time. This is not the time to run your car close to “empty.”
 
  • Keep some bottled water and non-perishable easy-to-eat foods on hand.   I recommend you keep these in a box you could easily scoop up and take with you if you needed to go in a hurry. (It’s not a necessity, but if it were me, I would keep toothbrushes and toothpaste in the box, as well, in case you can’t get to your own toiletries for a time. A couple rolls of toilet paper or tissue boxes might be a plus as well. Don’t pack too much, though. This needs to be something you could carry if you had to go on foot.)
 
  • Have your pet’s leash, a crate for your pet, and pet food on hand.
 
  • Plan with your family how you will meet up or what you will do to get together in the event of an emergency. Who is picking up the kids at school?   Do you meet at home, at school, at work . . . ? 
 
  • Prepare your emergency route ahead of time. Have a contingency plan just in case. Sometimes it’s hard to think clearly in the midst of a crisis, so keep a map in your car, and know the route and alternate route you’ll need to take to safety.
 
  • Keep your cell phone charged. You may need it. For those of you who use pre-paid plans, don’t let your minutes run low. Keep plenty of minutes available. The cell phone will be a source of information as well as a possible lifeline for you.   (During the 9/11 attacks, many even used their phones as flashlights to escape the collapsing buildings.)
 
  • Be mindful of how the Lord plans to use you to help others. Not everyone will be prepared. Your preparation might mean safety for someone else if you can give them a ride, a drink or even some food to eat. With that comes the opportunity for our lights to so shine before men that our Father in heaven is glorified. It’s very important we not miss this opportunity. 
 
 
How to Pray
 
We are like the people of Israel at the time of Nehemiah.   The Babylonian king had granted Nehemiah a leave of absence from his duties to the king as royal cupbearer and had granted him authority to oversee the rebuilding of the wall around Israel.
 
At the time, people had been rebuilding the city and countryside for some number of years. Earlier, Ezra had helped oversee the rebuilding of the temple. However, the land could not truly prosper, because without the safety of the city’s walls, they were vulnerable to their neighbors and their enemies.
 
In short, Nehemiah was used by the Lord to organize and lead the people in rebuilding the walls. At that time, the people living within the city, and the people living in the countryside outside the city could retreat within the city walls and shut the gate in times of danger. Walls around a city made the city like a fortress – some more impenetrable than others.
 
Israel’s enemies didn’t want the walls rebuilt. That would bring about national pride and strength and put Israel back on the map as a nation again. This would displace her enemies. Israel’s enemies created numerous obstacles using intimidation, infiltration, compromise, character assassination and the like to detain the re-building efforts. 
 
In the end, the wall was built not because any one person did anything grandiose but because many people pitched in and did what they could. Different people, groups or families took up the cause of rebuilding a section of the wall. They didn’t try to build the complete wall. They simply began building their section. Some of the sections including hanging the gates. Some people had larger sections of wall; others had smaller. However, by working together, the wall was rebuilt.
 
When all the sections of the wall were finally joined together, the enemy attempted once again to stop the rebuilding of the nation – which was what the walls represented. Because the initial wall was not yet built to the height it would ultimately be, the enemy scoffed and ridiculed the work that had been done. “If a fox jumps on their wall, it will fall down.”
 
The rebuilding has to start somewhere. It starts with each person, each family, each group or team building their section of the wall. The important thing is that we build the wall. Initially, it may not be as tall or as strong as we’d like it to be, but we must not despise small beginnings.   A wall of any kind is a deterrent. The taller and stronger the wall gets, the more of a deterrent it becomes. It will be no deterrent at all if it is never built.
 
The reason I tell you this story is because that is the strategy for prayer in this hour. Many prophetic voices, including mine, are calling the intercessors to get on the wall. What I believe is even more pressing is that we build the wall. As each of us takes our place, we become the wall. We may not be everything we’d like to be. We may not know how to pray everything just exactly right, but we are building the wall, and the fervent, effectual prayer of a righteous man avails much. It is powerful and effective. 
 
We have nothing if we have no wall. We can restructure the wall later. We can build lookout towers, bridges, stairs, double walls and more. We can even dig a moat if we like. (Ooops, that’s later in history.) But the first priority is to build the wall.
 
So, our prayer strategy for the moment is simple: Every person who is able should get involved in the process of building this wall of prayer. As we do, the Holy Spirit who leads and guides us into all Truth will be able to show us what to do with our section of the wall. 
 
Will you stand on the wall beside me?
 
Pray for mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgement.
 
Pray that the kindness of God evidenced through His people will lead the world to repentance.
 
Pray that death and destruction are blown away by the very breath of God.
 
Plead the blood of Jesus.
 
Pray. Stand. Build. Fight.
                                                              
Closing
 
I am not releasing this to you in a spirit of fear. We have nothing to fear but the Lord Himself, and the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. I am releasing this to you in a spirit of preparation and of faith.
 
The Lord does nothing but He first reveals it to His secret counsel. (Amos 3:7) As with Noah, He doesn’t want anyone caught off guard. He’s preparing an ark.
 
Pray, prepare and stay alert.
 
Many blessings --- Your friend in Christ,

Tracy