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