Update On 'Addressing The Spirit Of Seduction'

'Addressing The Spirit Of Seduction' - UPDATE

2nd DECEMBER 2013

Report by: GLENICE MILLS

I recently wrote a report about our exploit dealing with the bikini and the loss of modesty in these times.

On November 30th was planned a ‘Bikini Beach Party’ on Surfers Paradise Beach, the beach we met and prayed at.  There was to be an attempt to break the Guinness Book of Records for the largest number of women wearing a bikini. China currently has held the world record.

We awoke on the 30th to heavy rain and strong winds. We knew God had intervened and stopped this Bikini Beach Party.
We had fine weather the day before and the day after so the rain was just on this day.
We went to the website where this Bikini day was being promoted and were delighted to read that in fact the event had been cancelled three days earlier because promised corporate financial support had not come in.

It said on the website that they were ‘devastated’ and ‘frustrated’ by all that has happened in organising this event.

The Lord hears our prayers. We had prayed that the Lord would frustrate and bring devastation to the planned event. The exact words we prayed were written on their website.

It is a timely reminder that we must not forget the power and authority we five fold women carry as we come together in unity dealing with these ungodly strongholds over regions.

Thank you Lord for hearing our prayers!

Report: Addressing the spirit of seduction

ADDRESSING THE SPIRIT OF SEDUCTION

OUR PRAYER AND REPENTANCE ON SURFERS PARADISE BEACH,

29TH SEPTEMBER 2013

Report by: GLENICE MILLS

In the recent months past, the Lord has been showing those of us who attend the Gold Coast branch of Women’s Apostolic Alliance the stronghold of the spirit of seduction over our region.


The Gold Coast, Australia, is known for its beaches and laid back beach lifestyle. It is also known for the ‘Meter Maids’, young women, wearing sparkling gold bikinis, who put coins in expired parking meters.


The bikini was foundational for the beginning of invoking the spirit of seduction.

Surfers Paradise has an international profile and it was from the Gold Coast that a prominent fashion designer of resort wear launched her clothing range.

Surfers Paradise did hold the Guinness world record bikini parade attempt in 2011 before the title was taken by a city in China. There is again, an upcoming Bikini Parade world record attempt, to be held on November 30th 2013 at Surfers Paradise Beach.


This is part of the culture of the Gold Coast and is accepted as normal. The problem is, bikinis are immodest, and place women as ‘eye candy’ for men.


I need to make it clear at this point that we are not against the wearing of the bikini in privacy and with discretion. However, we felt it necessary to address the parading of the bikini.


It is about God’s standards, what is acceptable and right before a Holy God. He is not a mean God, however, we must come back to right balance, and modesty is a way of God.


We also need to be mindful that the Muslims are proactively speaking out against the immodesty of women, and if we are not careful, they will be the ones who influence, rather than the body of Christ. They are, in fact, being a voice, when it should be the church. Sadly the church has lost and is losing its edge, by bowing to compromise and accepting lower standards of dress and modesty.

We felt in God to do a prayer, repentance, and prophetic action on Surfers Paradise Beach, one of the places the bikini was originally accepted as the dress code for the beach.

On Sunday 29th September a group of women from Gold Coast WAA gathered together. We knew the timing was crucial as the V8 Supercar racing and Schoolies were soon approaching. Both these events encourage the parading of the bikini.


The Lord confirmed to us that we were in fact in His perfect timing, and that it was time to pray. I love it when the Lord confirms something by giving us a sign.

As we drove into Surfers Paradise there was an entire area set up with tents, with signs advertising the event reading: ‘Beach Party.’ We knew this was where we were to pray.

As we gathered a fire engine passed us with its lights flashing and siren going. The fire engine then turned around a bit further along the road and came back past us again.



‘SOUND THE ALARM!’


We then went and sat on the sand below the main area, underneath old pictures of the original bikini/meter maids. We knew that we had to come in the opposite spirit – we were not going to parade our prayer time but instead be discreet, finding a quiet place on the sand to pray.

We prayed forgiveness where we had personally and as women succumbed to this seductive spirit; for our immodesty, and being willing to parade ourselves, setting ourselves up to attract affirmation from men.

Tim Cassidy and Mike Meek, stood in the gap for men, repenting where men had viewed women in demeaning ways, for sexual gratification.



We then brought out a bikini and symbolically cut it up into pieces. This was a very powerful action. The pieces were placed in a plastic bag and thrown into a dumpster set up as part of the ‘beach party’.

We don’t yet know the power and effects of our prayer and repentance; however, we do know that things will change. There has been a shift in the Spirit realm, and the physical realm will surely follow. (UPDATE)


This spirit of seduction has been served notice, it has been exposed!

WAA UK: Women's Summit Saturday 14th December

Women's Summit with UK Co-Ordinator Ruth Paddon:

Date:
Saturday 14th December
Time:
9.30 am - 1.30 pm
Location:
Hedley Hall, Denmark Road, Bath. BA2 3RE
(Tea/coffee & biscuits will be provided.)

Ruth will teach and explain the true Biblical teaching on the role of women in the church. This includes pulling down many lies that have been taught, because of the wrong interpretation of scriptures, keeping women out of their full call and place in the church.  The women coming to this Summit morning do not have to be five-fold ministers. Hopefully at the end of the Summit everyone will understand what five-fold ministry means and have a revelation of what they're called to.  Some will not be five-fold ministers but many will be in all stages of development.  All women, the same as men, carry a particular anointing in the body of Christ and need to be encouraged and released. This is God's heart for the church.  His heart is to see a full representation of the male and female  in the church.

Please invite any women you know, to come to the Women's Summit on December 14th at 9.30am-1.30pm.

A flyer will be sent soon and our usual Forerunners Meeting will commence at 2.30pm for those who would like to stay on after lunch.  For those who want to stay for the day and engage in Prophetic worship in the afternoon, please bring a packed lunch to eat at the venue, Hedley Hall.

"I'm excited about what God is saying to us and am looking forward to working with you in the furtherance of God's kingdom and your call.  We all have a unique ministry and gifting that God has given us and need each other to complete our mission in life."

Yours In Christ

Ruth Paddon
Womens' Apostolic Alliance
U.K. National Co-Ordinator

Report for New Zealand - Dr. Sharmaine Dobson

I have perceived that there has been a cry for New Zealand to take her heart of stone and submit it to God to be transformed to a heart of passion; a heart that yearns and beats after Him. This is New Zealand’s time to ARISE. It is her time to stand up and be counted in the army of the Lord. “It is time for the voice of the women clergy”, as Lynne says, “to be heard.”  It is time to take our place and stand with our faces set like flint, not looking to the right or looking to the left. It is time, it is time!
We were privileged to host Dr Lynne Hamilton in Wellington, our capital city, as she spoke to a conference organised by Sue Loan of Firebird Ministries, on the apostolic.  By the end of the conference lives were changed and there was a spirit of joy/rejoicing and purpose. We are very honoured to welcome Sue Loan as our Wellington and surrounding districts co-ordinator.
We were blessed to have Wendy Sim from Snells Beach attend the conference as well.

Dr Lynne had a burning word for a local church and their pastor. Once again that breakthrough anointing she carries prevailed and lives will never be the same after many prophesies and words of knowledge flowed.
We are also very privileged to welcome Gay McKay, situated in Waihi Beach, to our fold as our Bay of Plenty co-ordinator. Watch this space for photos and news as these two Generals prepare to call 5 Fold women out of hiding.

Understanding New Zealand Culture has been a task that I gallantly set out to understand. New Zealand like any other country of the world has an ingrained culture which once grasped, I felt could help me understand the roots of the 5 fold women in New Zealand.  The best and most concise explanation I have heard is from a respected man by the name of Peter Lineham who is an Associate-Professor Peter J. Lineham is a historian, who teaches at Massey University at Auckland, New Zealand. His major fields of research are eighteenth and nineteenth century English religious history as well as New Zealand religious history. His major books include ‘There we found Brethren’, ‘No Ordinary Union’, ‘Bible and Society’, and ‘Transplanted Christianity’. He has also written many articles and is a frequent speaker on religion, church, culture and society.

He says, and I quote,
“Gender Factors in New Zealand History:

Over the last thirty years historians have reflected extensively on the gendered nature of New Zealand history, and what was distinctive about this, compared to other societies at the same time. Most historians now see the colonial/imperial factor as a key not simply to the colonies but also to the imperial heartland. Victorian notions of gender need to be applied to New Zealand with caution because gender roles were reshaped in the colony.
The disproportion of men to women in New Zealand is usually viewed as a key factor although it can be exaggerated, as David Thomson has argued. Nevertheless, in the broader context of Australasian culture, single males – tramps and mates and soldiers – influenced the emergence of a very rugged masculinist culture. The image of New Zealand males remained in ‘cowboy’ mode. Fred Dagg and Barry Crump and mud-splattered All Blacks symbolise New Zealand masculinity and this ‘good keen man’ image was rather rough, dirty, violent and implicitly rather hostile to femininity.
Meanwhile the colonial pattern of the hardworking wife with few or no servants subtly changed the Victorian ideal of the woman in the home. Women learned to be strong and determined, and challenged the demure image of Victorian women. They gained power from their home base. Women strongly supported the campaign for the prohibition of alcohol and the enfranchisement of women.

The WCTU’s motto was ‘for God for home for humanity’. Moreover movements of ‘scientific motherhood’, eugenics and race purity, and above all the Plunket Society, portrayed the ideal woman as domestic in her outlook, giving everything to her children. Probably the early twentieth-century tone placed more restrictions on respectable women.
There were always other dimensions to the story. An influential book by Caroline Daley identifies changing notions of gender and sexuality. In the 1920s and 1930s colonials were exposed to Hollywood’s notions of femininity, and women began to conform to changing notions of the stylish body beautiful. This contradiction, women questing for the beautiful and men anxious not to be domesticated, remains a feature of our gender history.”


Watch this space as I search deeper into our culture and seek out our champions of the faith.

Colleen Doyle, a New Zealand WAA member and the Leader of ‘GO Ministries’ is visiting with my dear friend Ruth Paddon at Forerunners International in Bath. I wish I was there but bless them with a joyful visit and sweet fellowship.

With much love from New Zealand

Dr Sharmaine Dobson 

Report for UK - Ruth Paddon

Hi from sunny UK,

Everyone is now settling in to the first term of the new school year here. It has been a wonderful summer and most people have been away on holidays.

WAA has also taken a break but I felt the Lord wanted me to travel to three Roman cities and do some praying.

I also have been connecting one on one with many female prophets and apostles in the UK.

Firstly, I drove to the city of Chester, the old Roman gateway to North Wales. I felt to declare the Lord Jesus Christ's sovereignty over the region and break a blockage in the spirit realm caused by a false declaration made by an ancient church leader. The city had a false soul tie to Rome and was lacking freedom to embrace God's plans for revival and the restoration of apostles and prophets in the region. I felt the gateway to Wales needed to flow freely.

From Chester I travelled to York, my major assignment, where I knew for several months
God wanted me to intercede and declare certain things.

I took a city bus trip and felt God's grief when we pulled up near Clifford's Tower. The tour guide mentioned a Jewish massacre had happened there in1190 AD. My spirit was grieved and I started interceding while sobbing in grief. As I walked up the hundreds of steps to the tower, I felt to repent on behalf of the clergy and stand in the gap for the betrayal of the Jews at that time. They had turned to the Crown and church authorities for protection from a murderous mob and great persecution. The Jews, who escaped the town riots, sought protection in the Tower and waited for help.

Fearing the mob would overrun them, many families committed suicide and others who waited were massacred the next morning by the bloodthirsty mob.

Interestingly all Jews and their property were considered the King's property for many centuries in the UK. In 1290 AD all Jews were expelled from England and not allowed to return until the mid-17th century.

I felt this sin of betrayal and abandonment was preventing the church from flourishing in this region. The true Apostolic and Prophetic needed to be restored to the church in this Roman city. I called forth the Fivefold ministries and especially Prophets and Apostles.

I finally arrived in Lincoln, another Roman city, where a great injustice occurred against 12 Jewish leaders. They were falsely accused of murdering a child by a church leader in Lincoln and executed in London. Only recently has there been an apology. As the Anglican church and the Jewish community are reconciled in this country, the curse of injustice can change to blessing and spiritual breakthrough.

As I researched in the various museums I visited, I noticed the weak position of women in all areas of society. The freedom we take for granted, especially voting, is only a recent development .The suffragettes paid a great price for a woman's right to vote. Many were abused, raped and force fed in prison, causing permanent damage to the women’s' throats.

Up until the late 1800's when a woman got pregnant, she knew the chances were very high she would die. One in four children in England died during childbirth. It's no wonder there has developed generational fear of death in our family history. Giving life to babies was equated with death and suffering. This would have brought a fear of death over the womb.

Praise God with the many great revivals in the UK, the position of women in society has improved in direct correlation to the spiritual freedom manifested.

A woman was her father's property, then her husband’s property when she married. She owned nothing herself. Now she is free to earn her own living and own her own property.

 Western society is still facing threats to women's freedom through the rise of Islam and sharia law. We know it's a spiritual battle and WAA here are backing, in prayer, Baroness Cox, in the House of Lords, as she makes a stand for Women's rights and freedom already won for them by Christ and UK legislation.

We intend to do more prayer walks and excursions as well as researching women of faith. (See Vanessa's article on Countess Huntingdon.) There is a growing interest in fivefold women ministers joining WAA. I hope to hold a conference in Bath for women in ministry soon. I have my personal website up and running and it has a direct link to the WAA website.

The WAA website is a wonderful resource and blessing to us all, in every part of the globe.

Blessings in Christ as Australia go into summer and the UK embraces the winter season. We are all in a common continuous season of Grace. Be encouraged to rise up in all the freedom God has given you.
Ruth Paddon