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INDIANA
Prophetic Words and Prayer Focus
In June 2000 at Global Harvest Ministries' Future War of the Church gathering, launched from Indianapolis, IN, Chuck Pierce prophesied, "Grave clothes leave the Army of Indiana...get off this region! Lord, we say the fullness of life is coming to Indiana...we say where death is still working to hold this state and this territory and keep it from manifesting the glory of God, we say there are strategies to break the spirit of death."
In 2001, Chuck prophesied, "Father, we declare right now a snapping is going on is the Spirit realm. Release that anointing right now to shift this region into place. Completion is over the heart in the center of this nation." In the same year Barbara Yoder prophesied, "This territory shall arise and overthrow that which has stood against the church. I declare that a whole new structure will arise in the territory. A whole new structure will arise at the Crossroads." In 2003, Jim Chosa prophesied, "This is about the nation...not just about Indiana. We're going to take the marriage covenant back and see the Spirit of God lift it back into its place in the Kingdom of God, see it restored into all that it means." Dutch Sheets added, "There are some new beginnings for America that are supposed to begin in Indiana. Maybe He is going to lead you into some victories...that are going to initiate some revivals for the rest of the nation. Maybe where God is about to STRIKE FIRST is this younger generation and the revival in (on) the college campuses is going to start right here in Indiana. There has been an inability to go all the way. I keep hearing the words short circuit. You've got to go all the way to the fullness of time. Come on, First Strike, Lord, in Indiana." Chuck Pierce then added, "First Strike events, people...(you) have to insist on heavenly strategies! Come into a place of worship new and fresh throughout this state so that you can overthrow thrones of iniquity and bind the strongman that keeps holding back the spoils that I have for you. You are at a crossroads right now; you are either going to be found wanting or you are not going to come into what God has for you and make a shift this time and not go back. EITHER THE CHURCH WILL CONTINUE TO RISE UP AND PRAY FOR THE STRUCTURES OF SOCIETY - THAT THEY START OPERATING IN JUSTICE IN THIS PARTICULAR STATE - OR YOU WILL HAVE ANTI-HATE GROUPS. May the church be anointed in a new way. Indiana, move farther into a prophetic mantle."
Chuck Pierce then prophesied to Apostle Willie Coate, "And the Lord would say, I have just shifted an authority in this nation...I have come to this State to shift this authority. I have come to this State to make the FIRST STRIKE, to say now Black America will go forth on their path in this land and that which would resist and swarm against them in the future, I am now giving the ability to walk on the fire that is coming on the path of this nation." In 2004, Diane Buker, a member of the USSPN National Apostolic Council, said, "When I heard the Lord say the word 'region,' I thought He meant Vincennes, maybe this portion of the state, or this State. And the Lord said, 'No, Diane.' The government of man has changed the perimeters. You (here in Indiana) are a voice to this region. You remain a voice to this region." Jim Chosa added, "I am going to give you charge, intercessors. As you drive out from this place on every highway and byway you travel, you are going to break up that drug supply line. We are going to begin that breaking process right now, including the communication supply line. We break their hold; we break their network over the State of Indiana right now in Jesus' Name. Father, we give to your people authority to go forth and break those lines in every highway and byway throughout the State. Amen."
Indiana was 6th in the nation for methamphetamine production in 2003 and 4th in 2004 for labs busted nationwide. In three of the eight counties listed as having the highest rates of meth lab busts in the state (Noble, Vigo and Knox Counties), alliances are being formed by government and church leaders and intercessors to build rehab centers and to target this issue.
February 20, 2004 - three Christian ministries on IU Campus planned and held a Sacred Assembly for four and one-half hours. Approximately 300 were in attendance to cry out in repentance, to humbly present ourselves to the Lord and to seek Him, and to worship and exalt the "Name above all Names, Jesus." The three ministries represented were: InterVarsity, Campus Crusade for Christ, and Christian Student Fellowship. Recently, Brent Hershey, an IU student who was deployed to Afghanistan, was one of four killed in their military vehicle as they drove over a land mine. Brent was a leader in the Campus Crusade for Christ ministry and at IU. He was known to boldly witness and prayer walk fraternity row. Several students have now picked up his mantle to carry the vision to a larger scope. On Sunday, April 10, 2005, Christian students have organized a 7 day fast prior to a well-known IU activity "Little 500," known for the revelry and people coming in from other states to be a part of this. The students plan to break the fast by taking Communion and holding a Worship Concert.
October 31, 2004, each USSPN state coordinator was given a "key of David" to take and prophetically "turn" at their respective capitols. The results in Indiana: Indiana was the first to declare President George W. Bush re-elected; Mitch Daniels becomes the first Republican governor in 16 years, and both Indiana House and Senate in Republican control for the first time in eight years. Lt. Governor Becky Skillman is the first woman ever elected to that position. On Thursday, November 4, 2004 - The Indianapolis Star, Section B City & State headlines proclaimed: "CAPITOL CHANGES - What Indiana's SHIFT OF POWER will mean to you."
* Pray and declare the above prophecies, for Indiana to shift fully into God's redemptive purposes for this region.
* Pray that God's apostles and prophets rise up and get into position, functioning optimally.
* Pray the Church into all sectors of society in Indiana - into the government, marketplace, judicial and educational arenas. Pray for the Church to recognize and receive Indiana's redemptive purpose, and accept the responsibility of this privilege.
* Pray for the youth of Indiana - that this region be released from all bondages, generational curses, iniquitous patterns, and that the youth of Indiana would embrace their call.
* Indiana has been a territory to birth and shift, but has short-circuited. Pray for her faith to rise to a new level, receive and exercise the ability, diligence and determination needed to persevere and complete the race with strength.
* Indiana is a seed sowing state. Pray that the harvest would no longer be blocked, hindered, stopped, stolen or sabotaged.
* Pray Psalms 126, that as Indiana has "sown in tears," she shall "reap in joy, coming again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him" (Psa. 126: 5 & 6).
* Pray Indiana would be released from a place of "hope-deferred," and develop a mindset of victory.
* Pray for a revival of healing ministries, of signs and wonders and God's people equipped to evangelize.
* Pray the victory mantle of war of would be restored to the Church. Note: The Future War of the Church Conference was launched from Indianapolis, IN in June 2000.
* Decree that the enemy's ability and tactics to cause us to be "short-circuit" will be recognized and stopped!
* Declare that Indiana is a state that connects and releases life from the Crossroads to the nation and beyond; decree that those in the state government would be enabled to gain wisdom and knowledge to make right choices.
Overview of Indiana and its History
INDIANA was admitted to the Union as the 19th State on December 11, 1816. Our nickname is "The Hoosier State," and our Motto, "The Crossroads of America." Indiana was first part of the Indiana Territory which was carved in 1800 from the Northwest Territory. Indiana's population (estimate 2003) is 6,195,643 and is 38th in size among the 50 United States. Indiana means "Land of the Indian."
The Indiana State Flag is a prophetic statement of her redemptive purposes. The torch in the center stands for liberty and enlightenment; the rays represent their far-reaching influence.
Indiana has the ability to shift regions, open new territories and shape a nation. The first European post in Indiana was founded in 1715 at Fort Oiuatenon which is present day Lafayette. This was built where the Tippecanoe River flows into the Wabash River. Fort Oiuatenon was the southernmost point of the boundary of Canada. Well before there were 13 states, a French fur trading post opened its doors in the heart of the Indiana territory. Col. Geo. Rogers Clark's capture of Fort Sackville from the British on February 25, 1779 aided the United States in laying claim to the vast region that later became the Old Northwest Territory. A bill creating the Indiana Territory became a law on May 7, 1800. William Henry Harrison was the Governor of the Indiana Territory from 1800-1812.
Battles fought in the Wabash River area during the Revolution determined the "shape and size of the United States, setting the southern border of Canada for all time at the Great Lakes rather than the Ohio River, thus opening the Far West to American development."
The central northwestern part of Indiana contains the inception point of the Trail of Death. In the early 1800's, President Andrew Jackson ordered Wm. Henry Harrison to start making treaties for removal of the Native Americans from Indiana. In April 1821, Indiana Agent John Tipton reported to Secretary of War John Eaton "this is the most favorable time to remove these Indians." Likewise, Governor Noble stated that it was essential "to the future and prosperity of Indiana, that the Indian title to the land within her borders should be speedily extinguished." Indiana Governor David Wallace ordered Senator John Tipton to recruit one hundred men and forcibly remove the Pottawatomie. With Indians from Michigan and all over northern and central Indiana, there were more than 859 present when the entire group set out for Kansas on September 4, 1838 (and arrived) at their final destination on November 4, 1838. As a result of this event, a number of curses were placed upon the land in Indiana and the nation.
In 1808, a native village called Prophet Town was founded by two brothers, Shawnee natives, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa (the Prophet), at the junction of the Tippecanoe and Wabash Rivers. It was out of the brothers' desire to unite native tribes and militarily defend their land from white (men) encroachment. Prophet Town was the "capital of a great Indian Confederacy---equivalent to Washington, D.C." It was a "seat of diplomacy." Prophet Town became a military training center for warriors with an extensive spiritual and athletic regime. Over 1,000 warriors were based there at its peak. US General William Henry Harrison organized an army of approximately 1000 troops to take Prophet Town. Prophet, Tecumseh's brother, attacked Harrison's troops prematurely and lost the battle.
By 1877, Indiana had become one of the thirteen most populated states in the U.S. The capital city had earned the nickname "Crossroads of America" because so many rail lines met at Union Station, just a few blocks south of the Capitol. U.S. 40, the National Road (also referred to as the Cumberland Road) was authorized by Congress to promote settlement westward from Cumberland, Maryland.
The entrepreneur, Madame C.J. Walker, 1867-1919, born Sarah Breedlove, married at the age of 14. (She was the daughter of a poor farm couple who died while she was still a little girl.) When her husband died, she supported herself as a washerwoman. In 1905, Walker perfected a formula for straightening the hair of black women; it was the beginning of a cosmetics empire that by the time of her death, would make her one of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire. She moved her business to Indianapolis. The Walker Building on Indiana Avenue, completed in 1927, is her legacy. The hair-care magnate was a generous contributor to good causes; she funded scholarships and gave to the indigent and the needy.
During and after World War II, the General Assembly (of Indiana) began to examine racial discrimination. Robert Lee Brokenburr, the first African American elected to the State Senate, helped draw attention to racial injustices. As a result, the General Assembly passed a landmark legislation that gradually eliminated segregation in public schools years before Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, a 1954 landmark case in national history.
INTERNATIONAL SCOPE:
* During World War I seeds were planted connecting Indiana to the present state of Israel. The Russian born chemist Dr. Chaim Weizmann developed a synthetic acetone, an ingredient in explosives, for Britain. For his war effort, the British government issued the Balfour Declaration (1917), basis for the creation of the modern nation of Israel. The monies Weizmann received in royalties from the Terre Haute plant helped Weizmann (in 1948) realize his dream of establishing a state of Israel. He became its first president.
* Well-known evangelist and minister Lester Sumrall founded LeSea Global Feed the Hungry which is on-going today.
* In August 1999, the Dalai Lama came to Indianapolis and then to Bloomington to "release world peace."
* Indiana University will soon offer what officials believe is the world's first Ph.D. degree program in informatics, the study of informatics in technology and its application to health, science and other fields.
* Senator Richard Lugar, R-IN, is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In addition to dealing with Iraq and other foreign policy hot spots, Lugar will continue to expand the program he helped create to destroy or secure weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union and elsewhere around the globe.
* Feisal Istrabadi, Iraqi Ambassador to the United Nations and an IU Law School graduate, spent part of his childhood in Iraq, but moved with his family to the United States and grew up in Bloomington. In April 2003, after U.S. forces ousted Saddam, he left his Valparaiso law practice to return to Iraq as adviser to Iraqi nationalist leader Adnan Pachachi. Istrabadi was the primary legal drafter of the country's interim constitution and the author of its bill of rights.
Currently, Indiana is number one in job loss, in home mortgage foreclosures, in personal bankruptcies and 50th in the creation of jobs. However, in 2003, Indiana donations totaled $4.86 billion to nonprofit groups with 79% of Indiana state households giving, compared with 69% nationally.
Indiana appears to have both governmental and war mantles; the ability to shift and align, to open up boundaries for expansion and determine borders. It is a land of shields and bucklers that are able to align with governmental heads for defense with support and advancement of the Kingdom of God. Note that both Tecumseh's and Harrison's troops had 1000 warriors. This is a picture of David's warriors in Song of Solomon 4:4, "Your neck is like the tower of David, built for an armory on which hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men."
Respectively Submitted,
Sallye Burton, State Apostolic Coordinator
Sources include:
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"Indiana Gives" Center on Philanthropy: www.philanthropy.iupui.edu/
www.indystar.com; Contact Star Washington Bureau reporter Maureen Groppe at (202) 906-8118 or at mgroppe@gns.gannett.com
HeraldTimesOnline.com, Tuesday, March 1, 2005 Section A
www.indystar.com, The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, February 20, 2005, Knox County Sheriff's Department, Indiana State Police data from the EPIC National Clandestine Laboratory Seizure System, U.S. Census Bureau
Wineries of Indiana, D.L. Tadevich; A Brief Synopsis of Indiana's Wine History by Jim Butler, Butler Winery
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IndyStar.com/living, The Indianapolis Star, Section E, Tuesday, February 8, 2005, Black History Month, 10 Who Counted, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, Leonard Pitts Jr.
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