Unless the trumpet is sounded how shall they go forth to war?  Unless my warriors stand and proclaim the Word of God and proclaim the Gospel and the full council of God, how shall my people know how to follow?  I call you to stand and to proclaim the full council of God before the Church, before the world, before the Angels and before the demons.  All that are godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution, so stand before the world, before the church, before the sinners and saints, and the Angels and the demons, and proclaim my Gospel, says God.

           Yes, you will be hurt.  Yes, you will suffer.  Yes, you will have trials and temptations; I have promised you that.  Look at the Apostle Paul... was his a walk of comfort and ease?  Many times he fell down on his knees and cried out to Me in desperate situations: facing wild beasts at Ephesus, facing jail, facing prison.  You have not to yet been put into prison, children.

           Do you expect this to be an easy walk?  I tell you, gird your loins, gird your minds, get out your swords.  You are heading for battle, a victorious battle, says God.  Yet the peace of God will overshadow you.  The stronger the power of the enemy the greater peace of God will be.

           You will fight in the Spirit; you will not fight in the flesh.  You will have peace, you will have joy, you will have glorious victory, says God.  But you will experience a warfare and a fighting and you will experience strong opposition, says God.  But you will also experience strong anointing to come against the opposition.  The anointing is not for your pleasure, children, for you to sit and giggle in. The anointing is for you to come against the oppressor with.  It is to come against the opposition with.  The more powerful the anointing the more the opposition.

           And I call you now to take that Holy Ghost boldness I put within you.  Take that Holy Ghost anointing and come against the oppressor.  Come against the enemy in the Name of Jesus.  That is the reason you sense such a powerful anointing at times; it is for warfare, not for your own personal enjoyment.

           So use it against the enemy as the Spirit directs you.  Say those things that bubble up out of your spirit.  It is said that when you are brought before the kings and the councilors, the Holy Ghost will give you the words to say out of your spirit.  Let them come up, says God.  Let them bubble up.  Let them bubble up out of your spirit and come out of your mouth.  In the Name of Jesus, let them come out of your mouth, for it is My answer to the kings and councilors that you are brought before.

           The Apostle Paul relied not upon his own wisdom, but he spoke the things that the council of God gave him though he was in chains and though he was despised and counted the  scourge of the earth for the Gospel's sake.  For he was in prison and he was in real chains and he did face death as he was warned by the prophets that he would, but he was willing to offer himself up, therefore he has been highly honored and exalted in the Body.

           If you want power and glory with God you must be willing to lay it all down - every shred of your reputation, every shred of your own worldly righteousness, your own worldly position must go, says God, and you must stand with the martyrs of the Early Church.

           If you want the power and the anointing and the blessing of God to fall upon you, if you want the Blood of Christ to mean something to you, then stand with those who long ago have stood on the side of the Lamb against opposition whether it be in Church or in the world.

           And you shall received the Crown of Life, says God and you shall receive the Spirit without measure, and you shall receive the anointing, and the miracles that you are looking for.  For they are birthed of the Holy Ghost.  You must make a stand for Me, says God, and I will stand for you.