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Worship Houston! October 21st, 2016

24 Saturday Sep 2016

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October 21st, 2016 at 7pm, Worship Houston Live Streaming worship event!

Where? All the Gates of Houston and all the participating Churches and Home Ministries in the Houston area and surrounding cities! The entire region of Houston, Texas!

Calling all worshipers and intercessors to the City Gates of Houston and to the Gate Churches and Host Churches and Ministries of Houston and surrounding areas! The Worship Houston Project is a dream that is coming alive in Houston! The Lord has been unveiling the revelation of the Gates and the incredible breakthrough that is coming into the City of Houston and the entire region through an unprecedented worship event, One Voice released as the Voice of Many Waters on Earth, as it is in Heaven! The Voice of Houston released through many voices coming together in worship, with no other plan, than to open the City Gates of Houston, Texas that the King of Glory may enter in and take His Seat of honor, the highest place in Houston, Texas.

This also corresponds to the Feast of Tabernacles, and is two days before the High Holy Day that concludes the Feast of Tabernacles this year! The tradition that accompanies the celebration of this Holy Scriptural Feast, is that the people would prepare a booth in which to worship! The Feast of Tabernacles was also known as the Feast of the Ingathering referring to the Harvest (Lev. 23:39, Ex. 23:16, Ex. 34:22), the Feast of Booths (Sukkot), when Israel dwelled in the wilderness in these booths, and is later singled out from all other feasts as the Feast or the Feast of the Lord ( Jehovah). This feast is believed by many to be the only feast not yet fulfilled and the one that is the culmination of all the other feasts as well as the Great Harvest of all people and nations, also known as the Feast of the Gentile Nations. Houston is a city of all peoples and all nations! This is also a year of Jubilee!

This will be a live streaming event as we cooperate in unity to launch this unprecedented worship event called the Worship Houston Project. First, go to www.worshiphouston.org or to Facebook.com/worshiphouston page to read the vision and receive the revelation of the Gates of Houston.

Next, go to our Facebook page (Worship Houston) and let us know that you are in! Please post the worship leader and pastor of your church for your worship event or the Lead worshipper and Facilitator of your Ministry or Home Group event.

Next, begin to announce to your church and to your ministry group your participation in this Worship event, and prepare your people to attend as well as prepare your worshippers for their worship service!

Please call your sister churches and churches in your community and affiliation and help them connect to the vision and participate as well. Believers, call your pastors and ministry and worship leaders and let them know and get connected to this massive Worship event in your area!

Prepare your hearts in prayer, bathe your Worship Houston event in your church and in the Houston area.

We will list all of the churches participating in Facebook and on the worshiphouston.org website, so that the communities can come out to your locations and worship with you!

Friday, October 21st at 6:30pm, begin to check into to Facebook, Worship Houston and to your church and home sites and begin to stream your worship event through Facebook, periscope live or record your service to post to YouTube or any other streaming service. We want to not only document this worship event, in the attendance of the participating churches and ministries and people of our city and region. The vision and the mission of the Worship Houston Project is also to release a Sound and a worship in Houston that allows Heaven to be released in the earth and the Shekinah Glory of God to find Houston as a Habitation and a Lighthouse to America! We want to see the prophetic Destiny of Houston be fulfilled not through one voice, but through many voices and to release the Clarion Call of Houston and its people to this nation and to the world, to let the Light of His Glory so resonate in Houston, and to send forth that Light to dispel the darkness that is trying to invade our cities, communities, our nation and our world! This is the Hour for the Church to Arise, to no longer be silent, but to be heard, and that the Holy Spirit will be released as in Joel 2 and as in Acts upon all flesh, every man, woman, and child!

The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come, Lord Jesus, Come!”

Anyone who wants to help us get the word out, please connect with me at bridesong.raelynn@gmail.com and we will find your place to serve in this massive endeavor!

See you at Worship Houston!

Raelynn Parkin

Bride Song Ministries, Worship Houston Project founder

www.bridesongministries.org

www.worshiphouston.org

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We will be at the North Gate Venue, streaming live at 11729 Spring Cypress Rd W, Tomball, Tx 77377! Join us if you are in the area and share with your friends!

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The New Gate

22 Thursday Sep 2016

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The New Gate

This morning I was awakened by the Lord at 4:44 am, just as my friend Judy Guidry was awakened at the same time. She had shared that the Lord had awoken her before our previous event in the same way, and now He was awakening us both, in advance of our Worship event this Saturday. The Lord had been opening up the Gates in fresh revelation for the last couple of weeks, revisiting Nehemiah’s Gates and discovering Ezekiel’s gates, hence the increased traffic from me. But as the Lord was giving these beautiful revelations and understanding, I felt the urgency to get this out to the Body of Christ because the darkness of our days, and the critical timing of this information.

My friend Judy reminded me of the New Gate, which had not yet been unfolded. As I went back in my research to study the New Gate, I went back to the Benjamin gate.  In the Second Temple, the upper Benjamin gate refers to the Temple, there is also a lower Benjamin Gate which refers to the City.

2 “Stand at the gate of the Lord’s house and there proclaim this message:

“‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the Lord. Jeremiah 7:2

2 he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin at the Lord’s temple. Jeremiah 20:2

Scholars believe these two gates mentioned are identical, and it is interesting to note that the people came through these gates to worship the Lord. According to my research, the third mention of this gate is referred to as the New Gate of the Temple.

10 From the room of Gemariah son of Shaphan the secretary, which was in the upper courtyard at the entrance of the New Gate of the temple, Baruch read to all the people at the Lord’s temple the words of Jeremiah from the scroll. Jeremiah 36:10

This New Gate, believed to have been rebuilt before the fall of Judah, is where the Benjamin gate used to stand and is a place where a major gathering would take place, where prophets would deliver their messages, important decisions were made and could also serve as a prison.

The New Gate, according to Wikipedia is the “newest gate in the walls that surround the Old City of Jerusalem. It was built in 1889 to provide direct access between the Christian Quarter and the new neighborhoods then going up outside the walls. The arched gate is decorated with crenelated stonework. The New Gate was built at the highest point of the present wall.” Another side note, is that this new gate is built in the Christian quarter, where the Church has authority.

Upon further meditating on the Wonder of His Word and what He was telling His Prophets, I was brought back to the Tabernacle of David. In all of the landscape of the Word, The Lord wants to rebuild one thing, the Tabernacle of David.

11 “In that day “I will restore David’s fallen shelter—
I will repair its broken walls
and restore its ruins—
and will rebuild it as it used to be,                                                                                       Amos 9:11 NIV

11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:         Amos 9:11 KJV

I had released this information in my previous book, Unlocking Worship, and in previous articles, but now the connection was being made about the Gates and the rebuilding of the Tabernacle of David. What God was wanting to see restored in the earth was rebuilt, “as it used to be,” and …”as in the days of old.” What we have been calling Church, with our new formats, our formulas, 2-3 praise songs…transition…worship song…then announcements? was not God’s original design. I know we have to have order and structure and I am not speaking against that. But there is something supernatural God wants to reveal and unveil to His Church if we want to see the next scriptures fulfilled in this hour. The King of Glory will come in, in a new way, through ancient paths, but through a New Gate, that looks like the Old Gates of scripture.

7 Lift up your heads, you gates;
be lifted up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
8 Who is this King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty,
the Lord mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, you gates;
lift them up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
10 Who is he, this King of glory?
The Lord Almighty—
he is the King of glory.     Psalm 24:7-10

Our current Church culture does not look like this, but we are crying out for the Manifestations of Glory promised in the Latter House.

9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.             Haggai 2:9 KJV

The Holy Spirit is stirring the hearts of His Remnant Church, His Bride, with a holy dissatisfaction that causes our hearts to yearn for more and to ask the question, “Is this really all there is?” Are we really seeing all that has been promised in the Word and to the magnitude of the Glory promised to accompany it! Is what we are doing enough to see the Great Harvest of Souls come into the Kingdom, the Signs, Wonders, Miracles, the greater things that we shall do that Jesus promised? Is there more? For us to understand the magnitude of the Glory of the Latter House that is promised in scripture, we first have to visit the former House, Solomon’s Temple.

1 Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud; 2 I have built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever.”

7 “My father David had it in his heart to build a temple for the Name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 8 But the Lord said to my father David, ‘You did well to have it in your heart to build a temple for my Name.9 Nevertheless, you are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own flesh and blood—he is the one who will build the temple for my Name.’

10 “The Lord has kept the promise he made. I have succeeded David my father and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the Lord promised, and I have built the temple for the Name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 11 There I have placed the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with the people of Israel.” 2 Chronicles 6:1-2, 7-11

40 “Now, my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.   41 “Now arise, Lord God, and come to your resting place,
you and the ark of your might.
May your priests, Lord God, be clothed with salvation,
may your faithful people rejoice in your goodness.
42 Lord God, do not reject your anointed one.
Remember the great love promised to David your servant.” 2 Chronicles 6:40-42

The Dedication of the Temple

1 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple. 2 The priests could not enter the temple of the Lord because the glory of the Lord filled it. 3 When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the Lord above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying,    “He is good;
his love endures forever.”  2 Chronicles 7:1-3

Are we seeing that level of Glory, so much that the priests cannot stand, and we see the tangible Glory filling the temple, and the worship that immediately responds to such an outpouring of Heaven? We see it depicted in Revelation in Heaven, but according to His Word, “Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” I believe God is going to come in His Own Way, to fulfill His Word, and to deliver perfectly on His Promises, and He will not disappoint! We have to surrender to His Ways, His Thoughts, his Blueprint of the Latter House filled with Glory! He will not add His Glory to manmade structures or programs, they cannot support the Weight of His Glory, nor will He build on faulty cracked foundations, or anything less than what He left us in His Word. For us to see what He has promised, we have to adhere to His Original Blueprints, the Glory is inherent in its Design!

Before we go any further, I see a pattern in His Word I want to highlight to you. I see the Father revealing His Plans to His Son, and His Son takes those plans and executes them. I first see that in Jesus life, “If you have seen me, you have seen the father…” I also see it in Moses’ life, he prophesied and performed Glorious miracles, and yet his “sons,” Joshua and Caleb, executed those plans. David received the blueprints for the House of the Lord, but His son Solomon, built the Temple, according to the original blueprint, the pattern God had revealed to David. So I believe we have to go back to the blueprint of scripture, to see The House the Lord wants to build, with Glory in its design, and the Glorious manifestations and wonders that will soon be displayed to the whole earth.

Unless the Lord builds the house,
the builders labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city,
the guards stand watch in vain. Psalm 127:1

So let’s revisit the express will, intention of the Father, expressed in Amos 9:11. He says, “in that day.” There is an appointed day, a time, an hour, when everything we know will change before our eyes, and it will not look like what we have become accustomed to, it will probably challenge the traditions of man we have created, the House that we have built. Will we have eyes to see, ears to hear, and hearts to receive what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to us in this day, this time, this hour? What He has planned is far beyond our experience, our limited understanding, and according to the Word, no eye has seen, no ear has heard…

4 Since ancient times no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him. Isaiah 64:4 NIV

9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 1 Corinthians 2:9 KJV

We must be willing to change our mindset and to let go of the things we know, the ways we have done Church, the patterns that have worked for us in the past, the formulas we apply to the workings in the Church! There is something new and fresh, which will bring great refreshment and Holy Satisfaction to the longing Hearts of His Bride! But it is not a modern contemporary way, it is an ancient way, an ancient path He wants to lead us in to discover the House filled with Glory. Not by striving and working anything up, but is inherent in its design. The Lord told me as I was writing the final chapter of “Lessons From One Worship Leader to Another,” that when the pattern is right, the Glory will come! It has to! When you turn a light switch on, you expect the Light to turn on. It was designed to bring forth the Light. If it does not produce any light, then it is broken! Or possibly the wrong light switch, or the connections are faulty, or it was not installed properly! We don’t just say, oh well, the light does not work, this is all we can expect…hmmmmm! NO, we get the right light switch, we adhere to the instructions and install it correctly and make the right connections so that the Light can shine brightly! Sometimes for God to transition us and get us on the right path, he has to shake things up a bit!

6 “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. 7 I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the Lord Almighty. 8 ‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,’ declares the Lord Almighty. 9 ‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,’ declares the Lord Almighty.” Haggai 2:6-9

Are we seeing a little shaking going on? The shakings are to fill His house with Glory! He says In Amos 9, He will restore David’s fallen shelter, He will raise up the Tabernacle that is fallen. He will repair its broken walls, He will raise up its ruins. The Lord is rebuilding some old broken walls, isn’t he? He will restore its ruins, raise up its ruins, close up the breaches. And He will rebuild it as it used to be and as in the days of old. Obviously, the Lord is watching over His Word to perform it, and He is not asking us for our opinion of His rebuilding efforts. What was in that fallen Tabernacle of David that God wants to restore in the earth? There are two elements, the Glory that is seated upon the Mercy Seat, and the worshiping priesthood that ministers before the Audience of One, day and night, prepared in that Glory (a deeper revelation of this is unfolded in Chapter 6 The Keys of David, Unlocking Worship…).

11 “In that day

“I will restore David’s fallen shelter—
I will repair its broken walls
and restore its ruins—
and will rebuild it as it used to be, Amos 9:11 NIV

 11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: Amos 9:11 KJV

You see, the worshiping priesthood was established by King David to minister before the Ark of Glory in that Tabernacle with teams of priests that would take their place before the Ark in worship. As one priest team finished, the next team would come in, similar to the prophetic minstrels in their ministry. They would prophesy with their instruments and their voices and stand in the breach before the Lord, outside of the limelight and onlooking adoration of the people. They performed their duties for 33 years, every year our Lord Jesus Christ lived on the earth, preparing the way in worship and prayer for His dwelling among us!

7 The priests then brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim. 8 The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles.9 These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today. 10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

11 The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions.12 All the Levites who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. 13 The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the Lord and sang:

“He is good;
his love endures forever.”

Then the temple of the Lord was filled with the cloud, 14 and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God. 2 Chronicles 5: 7-14

 …So the king and all the people dedicated the temple of God. 6 The priests took their positions, as did the Levites with the Lord’s musical instruments, which King David had made for praising the Lord and which were used when he gave thanks, saying, “His love endures forever.” Opposite the Levites, the priests blew their trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.                                    2 Chronicles 7: 5b-6

The worshiping priesthood carried the Ark of Glory to its dwelling place. Does this not look like a prophetic worship team prophesying and worshiping together to carry the Glory of God and release The Glory into its dwelling place?     Selah

But then there was a sound, a sound prepared in the Glory for 33 years. A priesthood that was prepared in that Glory released a sound under Heaven, and Heaven manifested in the earth, touched ground, the Glory filled the Temple, the priests could not stand because of the intense magnitude of that Glory, and the people worshiped the Lord! That is what the Lord is after, the Father is seeking worshipers who worship him in spirit and in truth! There is nothing that we have to offer the Lord that he does not already possess, except our Worship, our Communion with Him, our Adoration, our perfected response to His Love, our love in return! Return to your First Love!

So what does this have to do with the gates? I believe the King of Glory is coming through the New Gate, through a new way, which fulfills and resembles the Gates in Scripture, both in Nehemiah’s day and in Ezekiel’s vision. The strategic warfare to build the Walls of Praise that the enemy can’t take down are being restored, the breeches where the enemy has had previous access and launched previous attacks, are being closed up. The Gates are opening around the City to receive the King of Glory. The worshiping priesthood is being assembled and prepared to Release the Sound that ushers unprecedented Glory into the Lord’s Church! The Latter House of Glory will have greater manifestation and impact than even in Solomon’s day! Justice and Righteousness are delivered through the Gates to govern and release blessing in the city! The Righteous are possessing the gates, thus possessing the City! And the Glory is being released in the city with great power, revival, awakening, restoration, the spoils of the enemy being loosed, the wealth of the wicked laid up for the righteous, the Great Jubilee, where all that has been lost, stolen, indebted, captive, shall be restored to the People of God! Inheritance and prosperity shall be released, breakthrough shall spill out with shouts of praise and triumphal shouts of Victory! Glory be to our God! We are not going out in an escape raft, we are going out in a Blaze of Glory, like Elijah and His Chariot of Fire! And His Church will be a glorious Church, Radiant, Beautiful with His Passionate Fire in Her eyes, without spot, blemish or wrinkle! How soon is the Lord Returning? Watch the Bride! She is a mere reflection of Her Bridegroom, and the closer He comes to receive her, the more radiant and glorious she becomes! Can you see the Bride in all her Glorious Splendor, walking down the Aisle to be presented to Her King, Her Royal Bridegroom? The King is enthralled with her Beauty, and the rest of the world gasps at the Glorious Splendor of the Bride! The Spirit and the Bride say Come! Come Lord Jesus Come!

And I believe there will soon be a gathering at this New Gate and around the City Gates, more to be discovered!

See you at the New Gate!

Dr. Raelynn S. Parkin

Worship Houston! Project, Founder

Bride Song Ministries, Co Founder

Bibliography

City_Gate_of_old_Champaner_city.jpgDubovsky, Peter. The Building of the First Temple, A Study in Redactional,Text-Critical and Historical Perspective, Tubingen, Germany:  Mohr Siebeck, © 2015.

Scriptures from Bible Gateway at http://www.biblegateway.com

Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia at https://en.wikipedia.org

 

Worship at the North Gate!

19 Monday Sep 2016

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Worship at the North Gate!

Calling all Worshipers and Intercessors to the North Gate! Breakthrough is Here!newgate_chester

Lift up your heads, you gates;
be lifted up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.

Psalm 24:7

Calling all worshipers and intercessors to worship and release breakthrough at the North Gate! Breakthrough for the City and release and fulfillment of the Prophetic Destiny of Houston, Texas! Breakthrough in the Church, Justice, Commerce, Economy, Righteousness, Families, Revival and Awakening! Breakthrough for the Church and opening the Gates for the King of Glory to enter in and take His Rightful Seat of Honor in the City of Houston! Houston is a Gateway City and Strategic and Significant for this nation!

Significance of the Gates

The Gatekeepers were stationed on the East, West, North, and South gates.

24 The gatekeepers were on the four sides: east, west, north and south.            1 Chronicles 9:24

Historically, the gates were a place to assemble and to have meetings as well as a seat of high honor, where the elders would come together. The gates were a place where justice was administered, where judges in court rendered their decisions. At the gates of cities, courts of justice were frequently held, and hence “judges of the gate” were mentioned. Business was conducted there and legal transactions made, community affairs and religious services were held there too. The city gate was used as a public gathering place for the giving of an address or proclamation. Prophets and teachers delivered their messages there and kings and rulers or ambassadors addressed the people. It was a marketplace and it was very important to defend these places of economy and entrance into the city. Sometimes the gates symbolically are used to represent the city as a whole, as when the LORD said to Abraham, “Thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies” (Genesis 22: 17) Gates can also be used figuratively for the glory of a city (Isa 3:26) or represented the people of that city. In military terms, to “possess the gate” was to possess the city (Gen 22:17; 24:60).  Sometimes a city had two walls and therefore two gates with a space between them, which was used for many purposes. “And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone” (II Samuel 18:24). Obviously the gates were very significant and their defense was high priority, the welfare of the people was guarded, and the wealth and commerce within the city required great protection!

 The North Gate 

In a Prophetic word released by an elder in the City (permission has not yet been to obtained to release the author), Revival and Awakening has been prophesied to come to Houston through the North Gate! The North Gate of Houston, Texas is Spring, Texas. The significance of the North Gate according to Nehemiah’s rebuilding account, the Benjamin Gate, (Benjamin means son of right hand) represents authority and the Sheep Gate is apostolic (The Good Shepherd is Jesus, and in Peter’s apostolic restoration of leadership, Jesus commanded Peter, “If you love me, feed my sheep!”), rebuilt by the Levites and their priestly brothers.  In the prophetic account in Ezekiel 48, and its parallel confirmation in Revelation 21, the North Gate comprised of three gates, Reuben, Levi and Judah, with the East Gate at its Northeast border. Reuben was the natural firstborn, first in birth order, and represented the natural possession of inheritance.(Ezekiel 48:31 and Revelation 21:12-13). Levi represented the Worshiping Priesthood and the Sons of Levi were the only Israelite tribe that received cities but were not allowed to be landowners “because the Lord the God of Israel Himself is their inheritance! Judah meaning praise, Judah or praise went first, and was historically the tribe that camped at the east and led the troops into battle. Judah represents the spiritual inheritance of the King of Kings, the Lion of Judah! Some more interesting scriptures concerning the North Gate.

4 Then the man brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple. I looked and saw the glory of the Lord filling the temple of the Lord, and I fell facedown. Ezekiel 44:4

19 Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate to the sacred rooms facing north, which belonged to the priests, and showed me a place at the western end. Ezekiel 46:19

2 He then brought me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and the water was trickling from the south side. Ezekiel 47:2

Join us in corporate release and and prophetic declaration as we worship at the North Gate! Calling forth the Remnant and the Warrior Bride for such a time as this! Your time is Now! Step into Your Destiny, your greatest days are ahead of you! Arise My Church Arise!

Worship at the North Gate!

Saturday, September 24th at 7pm
11729 Spring Cypress Rd. W
Tomball, Tx 77377

Worship at the South Gate (Water Gate)!

Wednesday, September 21st at 10am
(Ladies only)
805 Morning Dove Lane
Friendswood, Tx 77546

Worship at the East Gate!

Friday, September 23rd at 7pm
202 Trinity Rd.
Dayton Lake Estates
Dayton, Tx 77535

Worship at the West Gate!

Friday, September 30th at 12pm
Worship Session at the Run With the Wind Firestorm Houston Conference
Church on the Rock
433 Barker Cypress Rd
Houston, Tx 77094

See you at the City Gates of Houston!
Raelynn Parkin
Worship Houston, North Gate, Bride Song Ministries

Victory at the North Gate!

15 Thursday Sep 2016

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         Lift up your heads, you gates;

    be lifted up, you ancient doors,

    that the King of glory may come in. Psalm 24:7

The Lord loves the gates of Zion

    more than all the other dwellings of Jacob. Psalm 87:2

Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter,

    the nation that keeps faith.  Isaiah 26:2

Evildoers will bow down in the presence of the good,

    and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. Proverbs 14:19

The Word has much to say about gates and their significance. The Lord prompted me in 2008, to look at the Gates of Jerusalem.  At that time, before we knew Hurricane Ike was coming to our area, the Lord impressed upon my heart that the gates of Jerusalem were paralleled with the gates of Houston, Tx. He showed me that Hurricane Ike would come into Houston through the Water Gate, which is exactly what it did. I also knew that I was positioned in the North Gate of Houston, and I had the visual of Houston as a wheel, with spokes and a hub in the center, of which all the gates were connected to each other.  I later in October 2015, saw the wheel come into its true form, it looked like a wagon wheel, very old and rustic as with the pioneers. And then I saw Houston as a wheel within a wheel, and I knew that it meant forward progress or to move forward, but also to move in all directions. And then I looked at the map of Houston, and I saw the wheel within a wheel, I saw the inner ring, the outer ring, the Beltway, and later the Grand Parkway. I also understood that there were actual gates in the spirit, with watchmen posted at those gates, and there were gateway churches, that were actively responsible to pray and cover their gates and surrounding area and who had been given charge and authority concerning their respective gate and surrounding area.

In my initial study in 2008, I went to the Gates of Nehemiah, and I saw two gates at the Northern border. The first one was the Sheep Gate, rebuilt by the Levites and their fellow priests, and the other was the Benjamin Gate.  Benjamin, meaning son of my right hand, also represented authority. The Sheep Gate is apostolic and represents the Lord Himself who said that He is the Gate, and He is the Shepherd. Ezekiel rebuked the false shepherds for abusing the sheep and taking care of themselves instead.  When Jesus restored Peter to his apostolic leadership, He said, “If you love me, then feed my sheep,” thus bestowing upon Peter the mantle and responsibility of The Good Shepherd. (John 21:17)  Jesus also called him Peter and that upon this Rock, He would build His Church, and the Gates of Hell would not prevail against it. (Matthew 16:18) Also, in that same year, I discovered that there was a prophetic word in the City of Houston, Texas, pronounced by Pastor Reginald Dees to Pastor Bruce Parks, that revival would come into the city of Houston through the North Gate, which is Spring, Texas. This newfound revelation seemed to sit on the shelf for the next eight years with little or no attention, until in October 2015, the Lord alerted me again to the North Gate.  The enemy was raising its ugly head in Old Town Spring, and we were to pray and to worship and to release Prophetic declarations concerning the North Gate area, to stand for righteousness and to raise a Righteous Standard. Later in April of 2016 that so called church closed its doors, but there was more work to do to complete the mission to eradicate the enemy from the North Gate.

So beginning from the 1st of September, I had been alerted again and was experiencing significant warfare, and received a prophetic word that in order to go to the City Gates, you must first visit the Old Gate, which was the preceding article to this one, where I released the revelation and praise report of Breakthrough at the Old Gate. Interesting that the Old Gate is also called the Governor, where Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem in 445 B.C. as the provincial governor of Judah, and began the rebuilding project there.

10But Judah said, ‘The strength of the burden-bearers is failing, and there is too much rubbish, so that we are unable to work on the wall.’  11And our enemies said, ‘They will not know or see anything before we come upon them and kill them and stop the work.’12When the Jews who lived near them came, they said to us ten times, ‘From all the places where they live they will come up against us.’  13So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.  14After I looked these things over, I stood up and said to the nobles and the officials and the rest of the people, ‘Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your kin, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.’                                                                                                                             Nehemiah 4:10-14

Verse 10 says the strength of the burden-bearers is failing, and I believe this is where many intercessors have found themselves overwhelmed with the work ahead of them and the warfare they have experienced. Multiplied grace and strength and strategy to these intercessors who faithfully serve at these gates!

Let us look at the significance of the Gate in scripture and in historical context. The gates were a place to assemble and to have meetings as well as a seat of high honor, where the elders would come together. The gates were a place where justice was administered, where judges in court rendered their decisions. At the gates of cities, courts of justice were frequently held, and hence “judges of the gate” were mentioned (Deut. 16:18; 17:8; 21:19; 25:6, 7, etc.)  Business was conducted there and legal transactions made, community affairs and religious services were held there too. The city gate was used as a public gathering place for the giving of an address or proclamation. Prophets and teachers delivered their messages there and kings and rulers or ambassadors were received there. It was a marketplace and it was very important to defend these places of economy and entrance into the city. Sometimes the gates symbolically are used to represent the city as a whole, as when the LORD said to Abraham, “Thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies” (Genesis 22: 17) Gates can also be used figuratively for the glory of a city (Isa 3:26). Gates also represented the people of that city and in military terms, to “possess the gate” was to possess the city (Gen 22:17; 24:60).  Sometimes a city had two walls and therefore two gates with a space between them, which was used for many purposes. “And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone” (II Samuel 18:24). Obviously the gates were very significant and their defense was high priority and the welfare of the people and the wealth and commerce within the city required great protection!

4 Then the man brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple. I looked and saw the glory of the Lord filling the temple of the Lord, and I fell facedown. Ezekiel 44;4

The north gate was assigned to his son Zechariah, a man of unusual wisdom. 1 Chronicles 26:14

And then I considered the North Gate in Ezekiel’s vision in Chapter 48 which is confirmed again in Revelation 21. Ezekiel 47 speaks of the River that runs from the Temple and the boundaries of the land. In Ezekiel we see the Gates of the New City, with twelve gates. The North Gate is comprised of three gates, the gate of Reuben, the gate of Judah, and the gate of Levi.

31 the gates of the city will be named after the tribes of Israel. The three gates on the north side will be the gate of Reuben, the gate of Judah and the gate of Levi.  Ezekiel 48:31

12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. 13 There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west.  Revelations 21:12-13

I began to look at these three gates to the North. The first one is Reuben, the natural firstborn and rightful heir of the promises and inheritance. Jacob prophesied, “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, the first sign of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power. He stepped up in his authority to save Joseph from death at the hands of his brothers, but later forfeited his right to full inheritance due to sin. It is interesting to note that he was the oldest son and in the first position in relation to his brothers, and Jacob prophesied him to be mighty, and he excelled in honor and power.  The second Gate is the Gate of Judah.  Judah, meaning praise (Leah said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” Gen. 29:35), is the fourth son of Jacob (Israel) and saves Joseph by convincing the brothers to sell him into slavery instead of killing him. Judah also takes responsibility for Benjamin in Joseph’s palace.

 Jacob prophesied, “Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons will bow down to you. You are a lion’s cub, O Judah; you return from the prey, my son. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is his.   Genesis 49:8-10

During the time of Moses, the tribe of Judah became the stronger tribe and “prevailed over his brothers,” the leading tribe in population and in men who could go to war (Numbers 1:2-3, 27).  After the death of Joshua, God chose the tribe of Judah to take the lead in conquering the nations who were living in the land promised to the 12 tribes (Judges 1:2) and they were aggressive and strong in driving out the Canaanites in the southern half of the land of Canaan. We see the strength of character and determination of Judah and the spiritual inheritance of Jesus, the Spiritual Firstborn, through the loins of King David and our Eternal King of Kings! In verse 10, “…The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs…”defers to the rightful owner who is Jesus Christ, the one to whom it belongs! This also reveals a special blessing for the tribe of Judah in the latter days.

21 After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the Lord and to praise him for the splendor of his holiness as they went out at the head of the army, saying:

“Give thanks to the Lord,

    for his love endures forever.”

22 As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.  2 Chronicles 20:21-22

24 Your procession, God, has come into view,

    the procession of my God and King into the sanctuary.

25 In front are the singers, after them the musicians;

    with them are the young women playing the timbrels.

26 Praise God in the great congregation;

    praise the Lord in the assembly of Israel.  Psalm 68:24

Praise goes before the armies of the Lord and before the King as He enters into His Sanctuary! The third gate is Levi. Levi was the third son of Jacob, of which both Moses and Aaron were both descendants of the Tribe of Judah and through whom the Priesthood was established. When Joshua led the Israelites into the land of Canaan (Joshua 13:33), the Sons of Levi were the only Israelite tribe that received cities but were not allowed to be landowners “because the Lord the God of Israel Himself is their inheritance” (Deuteronomy 18:2), and they served religious duties in the Temples and the Gates as well as political responsibilities. The Levites were also responsible for rebuilding the Sheep Gate.

So what does all this mean? I believe the Lord is revealing His supernatural strategies to his Gatekeepers in these Gateway Cities, of which I believe Houston, Texas to be one of them. He has been positioning His Generals and elders at the Gate and He is releasing the rallying cry to His People! This is not a time to be silent, but it is a time to find your place, your rank, and your position. As I consider the significance of the Prophetic Destiny of Houston, Tx, I am mindful that God has positioned us at the Old Gate for 14 years at the Old Family Gate of the Wunderlich Family and the Old Gate is a governing gate for Justice and Righteousness for the City of Houston. We have been soaking that gate for 10 years with worship. We are also positioned at the North Gate of Houston, Tx in Spring, Tx . We see the relevance of the Benjamin Gate with the authority of Apostle Ed Hendrix and the Sheep Gate, which was rebuilt by the Priesthood through apostolic order. We also see the significance of the North Gates and the three Gates which comprise the North Gate. Reuben is the firstborn in the natural is strong, full of honor and might. Judah is the Kingship of Jesus Christ, and praise goes before the armies of the Lord as well as ushers the King into His Sanctuary and into His City! Levi is the Worshiping Priesthood, which also carried the Ark of Glory before the armies of the Lord, and faithfully ministers unto the Lord, as in Ezekiel’s admonition of the Sons of Zadok! The King is Coming and He is coming in Glory! He is coming to His Gateway Cities and He is filling His Latter House with Glory! The Last Great Awakening is here, the King is coming with His Fire to burn up the works of darkness, His Rain to refresh the Land, and His Wind to blow away the chaff!  The Greatest Days of the Church will be seen, His Glorious Bride fully manifested in our cities, our region, and in our nation! America, the Lord has remembered you and the prophetic words pronounced by our Founding Fathers, and you will fulfill Your Destiny in the Earth in the Great Harvest of Souls! Arise My Church Arise!

Lift up your heads, you gates;  be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Psalm 24:7

Victory at the Old Gate! Victory at the North Gate!

Raelynn Parkin

Bride Song Ministries

Victory at the Old Gate!

12 Monday Sep 2016

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Victory at the Old Gate! Victory at the North Gate! Breakthrough is here!

September 1st Thursday, I awoke to a scratchy throat, and wondered what this was. My husband Paul and my son had already had a cough for about a week, and I was trying to avoid being around them. I had prayed so many times and went to fight this oncoming struggle, I had to sing the next morning in a worship service, so I was being proactive and preventative, and prayerful. Then I received an email from my good friend Mary Bostrom, but did not have time to open it or read it. It was about month of Elul, and the Old Gate. A couple of things stood out to me, when I finally read it on Monday, was that you couldn’t go to the City Gates, until you visited the Old Gate. As I started getting worse on Saturday and was sick all night Saturday, my husband and I and our son went to the clinic on Sunday, not able to go to church. In reading Mary’s article, it talked about the beginning of the month of Elul being sundown on Saturday night, and this was the time the Jewish women did a special housecleaning and repentance in advance of the New Year (October 1st) and the Fall Feasts that were approaching. As an earlier side note, two years prior I had really been assaulted in my health and it was around my father’s birthday and his celebration party. It was extremely scary, and I had no understanding what was happening to me or coming at me. We prayed extensively and as a family and with much prayer cover, we made it through, but I knew the enemy had tried to take me out. But the Grace of the Lord upheld me and I made it through.

This coming Saturday September 10th, was my parents’ 50th anniversary, Jubilee, and something was brewing again! During the day, as I pondered about the Old Gate, I felt impressed that this had something to do with my mother’s parents, her mother and father. My father had grown up in a Christian home and in a Godly environment, but my mother did not. So I felt I was being led to the Old Gate, with no understanding yet of what I was to discover. Monday night, I felt the opposition coming again, and we prayed, and made it through the night with no incident. Or so I thought. My son had a horrific nightmare, where he saw two enemies that were coming against us. He identified them to me, and I knew God had shown us the missing pieces of the puzzle. All three of us were feeling better, and Thursday morning and Friday morning, I had the revelation and the understanding.

What the Lord showed me, was the enemy kept taking shots at me every time I would go to the City Gate, things I had no knowledge of, and had prayed before but not with this level of understanding. So I felt the Lord lead me to my family house with my mother and my sister and pray and reveal to them what the Lord had showed me. At the end, my sister saw the three of us holding our arms out like in the children’s game, Red Rover, Red Rover, and the three of us were standing strong at the Old Gate, and the enemy was worn out and frustrated, defeated there. So my mother and sister are stationed at the Old Gate (our family gate) praying and interceding. Here is the Revelation according to the Word of God found in Nehemiah.

8 They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and stir up trouble against it. 9 But we prayed to our God and posted a guard day and night to meet this threat.
10 Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall.”
11 Also our enemies said, “Before they know it or see us, we will be right there among them and will kill them and put an end to the work.”
12 Then the Jews who lived near them came and told us ten times over, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”
13 Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows. 14 After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.”
15 When our enemies heard that we were aware of their plot and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to our own work.
16 From that day on, half of my men did the work, while the other half were equipped with spears, shields, bows and armor. The officers posted themselves behind all the people of Judah 17 who were building the wall. Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in the other, 18 and each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked. But the man who sounded the trumpet stayed with me.
19 Then I said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “The work is extensive and spread out, and we are widely separated from each other along the wall. 20 Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, join us there. Our God will fight for us!”
21 So we continued the work with half the men holding spears, from the first light of dawn till the stars came out. 22 At that time I also said to the people, “Have every man and his helper stay inside Jerusalem at night, so they can serve us as guards by night and as workers by day.”23 Neither I nor my brothers nor my men nor the guards with me took off our clothes; each had his weapon, even when he went for water. Nehemiah 4:8-23
14 Moreover, from the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, until his thirty-second year—twelve years—neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor. Nehemiah 5:14

According to the story in Nehemiah, he charged them by families to rebuild the gates of Jerusalem, but the enemy starting trying to kill them and frustrate the work of rebuilding the walls and gates of Jerusalem. So he had to station warriors with spears to stand guard (intercession) while the others were building the walls and gates (Gates of praise -worship), in order to complete the work the Lord had given them. The Lord had showed me in 2008, the gates of Houston corresponded to the Gates of Jerusalem, and to begin doing research then. Before we knew the hurricane was headed our way, he had showed me that Hurricane Ike was going to come into Houston through the Water Gate, and that is what happened. That was the beginning of learning about the gates and their significance in our city and region.

I believe we experienced victory at the Old Gate! Saturday was my parents 50th Jubilee Wedding Anniversary, and then we immediately had to leave to come do our Worship night that night. There was Victory at the North Gate that night as well! The same old struggle was completely eradicated, we went to a depth of worship and Glory that was unprecedented, and one of the worshippers heard the Angelic voices that joined us. I knew it was true, because she had described them as male angelic voices, with Glorious depths and parts, and those same Male Angelic Voices had manifested two other times before for others to hear during the worship. The last thing I wanted to add is that the Old Gate is also called the Governor’s gate, and I believe victory that is governed there will manifest at all the other gates as well! We are going into a City Level worship and Prayer gathering this evening, and today’s date is September 12th, government. I believe we need to share this victory and this strategy of the Lord to all of the other ministers at the other Gates around the City, and I believe the Prophetic Words spoken of the City of Houston are on the verge of Breakthrough and Breakout of Awakening, Revival Fire and the Great Harvest of Souls we have been praying for.

And one more thing. Judah goes first! The Praisers and the Worshippers are positioned in front of the Mighty Armies of the Lord! Glory Be To God! It is His Victory and we will see the Recompense of the Lord, and the Fruition of all the struggles and pressing to come forth! I believe this will also alleviate the extreme warfare we all have experienced going into the City gatherings and City Conference that is coming up! Glory, Praise, and Honor be to Our God who is Mighty and Victorious! Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Breakthrough and the Captain of the Hosts!

See you at the City Gates!
Raelynn Parkin
Bride Song Ministries,
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