Barbara J. Yoder

12/22/2024

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10/16/2024

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05/22/2024

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05/06/2024

There’s times when I know that we are hitting something very strategically and on time. I call these times, marker times! I am absolutely convinced that God totally redirected my steps to re-order what we are doing in August from, “the Voice” to “sound the alarm”! I don’t have time to go into the details. But I’m urging you to come, gather with the worshiping warriors, watch GOD move, miraculously, and be part of something historic. This was a suddenly where God turned me from One Direction into another very quickly. August 1-3. Scan the QR code to register for livestream or in person.

05/06/2024

Powerful message today. Listen at your own risk. New strength is being released. Slay the giants in the land.

We are an ever-evolving, breakthrough people, who are going from faith to faith, strength to strength and glory to glory. Our community is a racially and cul...

04/14/2024

I have been struck by the example of Moses as the Prophet paradigm. I believe that God is raising up a few like him in our time, in this season. Moses was so meek, he resisted leadership, moving to the front, he didn’t leap at God’s invitation at the burning bush. He did not want to be seen. He was not seeking the limelight or recognition by any person other than GOD. He was totally submitted to GOD. Whe he did step up to the plate, it was in the midst of extreme adversity, not loving his life to death. Moses was a man on his face before God. he knew God face-to-face. He was such a significant man of God that God trusted him by giving him the 10 Commandments to communicate with people as well as the Torah. Moses knew such a degree of glory that his face had to be veiled when he came down off the mountain. It was Moses (along with Elijah) that God chose to be with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration. Moses experienced a degree of glory unknown by any of the other prophets in the Old Testament. May there be a cleansing of that which is less than God‘s best. 

04/12/2024

Passover begins April 22. It’s one of the 3 main Feasts of the Lord. Passover refers to the blood of lambs spread over the Israelites doors causing the death angel to pass over them. The record is found in Exodus 1-15. This Feast was fulfilled in the New Testament through Jesus’s death, burial and resurrection.

Exodus means exit, departure or going out in Hebrew. In the NT exodus speaks of physical death. (Lk 9:33 and 2 Peter 1:15) This embodies Exodus’s theme of redemption because redemption is only accomplished through death.

It was in Egypt that Israel was born; Egypt was its womb. But when the fullness of time came—Israel’s time to “grow up” into who God created Israel to be, it had to leave its place of birthing. That place which had birthed and nourished it was no longer its friend or home. God allowed it to become an intolerably uncomfortable place.

That pain propelled Israel into travailing for deliverance. And that travail or cry entered GOD‘s ear (Exo 3:7) and God provided a supernatural exit. It required Israel to die to that which had created its beginning, its formation as a nation. Egypt was a beloved place and savior to Israel until its fullness of time came; the time when it was to step into its identity. So it is with us.

In Exodus is the outline or roadmap to redemption. This was repeated through Jesus’s birth, life, death, resurrection. We now have an exit out of anything that is no longer to be part of our lives: the blood of Jesus and His resurrection.

We are entering days of supernatural deliverance, where the blood of Jesus and our water baptism into His death are more powerful than we’ve ever perceived before. There is going to be a new emphasis on these two particular truths. Through His blood we are redeemed. Through water baptism we are buried with Him in His death and rise out of the waters into life, free from what has held us captive. The apostle Paul called it newness of life.

04/11/2024

I believe that we’re in an unusually supernatural time. I do know that at least several leaders think that we’re entering a difficult time, or maybe better said a challenging time. I think they are correct. What I do know personally is that I have such great expectation, unusual expectation for this season. And there’s been unusual angelic activity. It may be crazy but I sent it’s an unusual birthing season. A birthing of things we’ve believed for, for a long time. I’ve personally been aware of unusual angelic activity. I believe it’s critical that we keep our mind on the greatness, awesomeness of God, not ignorant of what’s going on, but carefully setting our focus on God. And worship, worship, worship! The best is yet to come. Keep it simple. Enjoy the simple things. Your family, your friends, your pets, love audaciously. And embrace God and his people. It’s a good day!

03/26/2024

Read at your own risk!

When I became a Christian, a real Christian, God led me to a church in Detroit, piloted by a one of a kind leader, a woman. Under this leader, Myrtle D Beall, the church not only experienced the greatest outpouring of the “latter rain” revival but it exploded into a church of 3500 people. I can’t recall a leader, so committed to God, a woman of great prayer, and entertained no compromise. When she spoke, there was always an element of the fear of the Lord. It was not condemnation. I learned the difference. It was a true release of the fear of the Lord. I remember being under almost constant conviction. I was a new Christian and God was in the process of transforming me. I grew exponentially under her leadership.

I don’t hear that sound anymore. I’ve only heard it in one person this year. That sound of conviction that releases a plumbline over our life challenging us to change everything that doesn’t measure up to the plumbline.

People have redefined the fear of the Lord, reducing it to awesomeness. God is awesome. And awe is part of the fear of the Lord. To be honest, I think we’re missing an element. We need to be a little bit afraid of God. We’ve left doctrines like eternal judgment. Nobody speaks about it anymore. I’ve been thinking a lot about the fact that when my life is completed, I have to appear before God to give an answer for how I’ve lived my life.

When I was a child, I had a good father. I loved my father. I not only was in awe of him, but I was aware that disobedience held consequences. That’s part of having a great father. They call us to attention to toe the line of godly character and behavior.

There is much mixture in the charismatic church today. I don’t say this with a sense of judgment in my heart, but with a need for repentance. Social media has redefined how we define ourselves, connect with others and what we project. I’m looking for those who are not tripping over themselves to connect with the next great leader, to help them develop their platform. I’m looking for those who have been on their face before GOD, have heard from GOD, are steeped in the word of God and moving forward with great integrity before God and man.

If I’m honest, I would say, I’m a little fearful of what would happen if Jesus came back today. How would I or we measure up. The world needs people who know God, who are sold out to GOD, who are on their faces before GOD, who are buried in the Word, who love God with their whole hearts and people secondarily. People who don’t use others to help them build their notoriety. To be honest, I almost want to run from notoriety because within it is a trap of egocentricity. I want to be known by God not man.

Note the number of social media accounts, which are filled with pictures of the people themselves day after day after day. They put a picture of themselves front and center doing all kinds of amazing things. When it’s not them/us that should be front and center, it’s the goodness of God, moving through us to reach down and save, heal, deliver people from their circumstances. We’ve made it about us. God help us.

We are entering (have entered) a very serious season. I believe God has been trying to get our attention by bringing certain failures before us of prominent people in the ministry. It’s time we hear the clarion call and stop putting our faces front and center, instead of putting God’s. He is God, there is none other. I am simply a vessel, through which He can move if I will yield to the Holy Spirit. I want to be known by God.

We are basically pimping to extend and enlarge ourselves, our ministry. It’s time we read the book of Acts again, see the level of the fear of the Lord connected with the glory of the Lord. We talk about glory, but we fail to see it’s related to the fear of the Lord. May God help us to re-align ourselves with God‘s plumbline so that He becomes famous in the land, not us. Selah!

03/19/2024

I believe that we are in a divine pause. Caught between what has been and what is about to unfold. That means we can’t quite find what our heart is reaching for. We can’t quite find what or where the new is. We search for the “sound”, hear great words—sounds, yet none of them are the “sound” we’re listening for. It feels like we are in a type of limbo. (One phase of transition). Something has ended and we can’t quite see the new beginning.

We look around to see if there’s someone carrying the “message” that sets our hearts afire. Yet no one seems to have that piece that finishes the puzzle to where we are stalled. That doesn’t mean that anybody is wrong or off. It simply means that final piece hasn’t yet been unveiled.

We are entering the End-time apostolic age. It has begun to dribble in. Yet it’s only a dribble. And what we do see is not fully it. The apostolic age is that which was demonstrated by the New Testament church birthed on the day of Pentecost. To birth that movement, a critical mass of people required an overpowering encounter which both transformed and reformed them for the rolling out of the new.

Historically, there has always been a fullness of time. That fullness of time is when God releases both the revelation and action necessary to fully unveil and transition into His “now” time. The “fullness of time” is marked by a monumental event that captures our attention and spirit. Until then we are in the waiting room, positioned for the visible emergence of what’s been being formed in “secret”. There is great anticipation, expectation. It requires a few who see it, know that it’s coming, and will wait out the process, persevering to the breaking out event.

03/17/2024

When I awakened this morning, I was pondering on the Church as the Body of Christ. First Corinthians 12 speaks about how we resemble the physical body, every person is a part, has a function. Once we fully understand and grasp this truth, discover what part we are, we can get into place and do what we were born to do.

Until we understand, we struggle. We may have feelings of being left out, competitive, lost, clueless, wondering and wandering; the results of not seeing who we are from God‘s perspective, and how we are to fit in.

Because we don’t, we struggle with others. We may think they’re taking our place, or maybe nobody sees us, we are not significant or whatever. Or we may try to make people notice and they don’t because we’re out of place.

Ask God to show you who you are and what your place is. You are and do have a place. If you don’t understand your place in the body, you will struggle day in and day out, sometimes worse than others, because you don’t know where you fit. And you may even be somewhat contentious because you’re struggling for something that isn’t working. Others feel it. And it won’t work because you’re trying to fit in the wrong place.

Everyone has a place and is significant. It’s just like our own physical bodies. Every part is specifically positioned and has a significant role in some part of making our bodies work correctly according to God’s design. So it is with a body of Christ. But if one of those parts is trying to function in a way it was not made to function, both it and the other parts around it will suffer in someway.

Ask God to clarify who you are, where you’re to fit. When you find out, you will begin to thrive in a way that fills up your soul and ignites your spirit. Selah

02/13/2024

If you have conditions for following God, then you need to get saved! Either you love God with all your heart or you don’t. If you love him, you will have no conditions.

Here’s another issue. I’ve heard for years people talking about so and so are saved but yet they’re living in sin, living with somebody out of wedlock, doing drugs, lying, po*******hy, all kinds of things. There has been no change in behavior. When I got saved, my Bible said, if any man being in Christ, he is a new creation, old things are passed away, and all things are made new.

I challenge the fact that somebody is saved when there is no change whatsoever in their lifestyle. John the Baptist himself said, bring me meat or evidence of your repentance. That means change is the evidence of repentance. No change, no repentance! There is going to be a whole new company of young fiery believers being birthed into God’s kingdom, springing forth, driving everybody crazy, preaching the radical gospel and acting saved! Changed behavior. Jesus said come and follow me!

02/13/2024

I’ve come to the conclusion that the restoration of the New Testament church is about a lot more than just changing a model. It’s loving not your life unto death. Just thinking out loud. Could it be that it’s going to take great courage as we move into a new era of history to advance the Gospel of the Kingdom in an adversarial environment. More and more it will be less about fame, fortune, platform etc. and a lot more about laying down your life. The New Testament church was birthed in an extremely adversarial environment.

02/07/2024

The longer I live, the more I understand everybody has their story. So often we make judgments or form assumptions about people based on our observations. However, without talking with them and validating our observations, we can be totally off. Often it is just plain wrong to assume we possess such great discernment.

Somebody came to our church once. We had a young woman who was unusual. She had a brain defect which limited her human interactions. She did not interact as a normal person would. This visiting person immediately assumed that this young woman was demon possessed. They believed they “discerned” it. Not only did they assume that she was demon possessed, but they eventually stopped coming, because they felt we were tolerating demon possession.

There is nothing we could do to help this young woman other than love her, understand her and pray for her healing. She was not demon possessed. She inherited a genetic defect, which inhibited her ability to interact normally with other people.

E. W. Kenyon has written a book about agape love I believe everybody in the Body of Christ needs to read. There’s a love that goes beyond the superficial and obvious. It doesn’t make judgments and ostracize people. And often our assumptions are just plain wrong, creating great hurt to others. 

01/12/2024

Winds of Change is starting tonight. Some have asked if it’s cancelled because of weather. NO IT’S NOT CANCELLED. If you have not registered, you can register at the door. You can still also register online for the live stream, but not for in person attendance. Again, you can still register at the door tonight! We are not supposed to have icy roads until later tonight. And the biggest warning is about the wind. That’s pretty interesting isn’t it!

In my lifetime, I have never sensed such a serious call from God to war. We are warring spiritually for the future of our cities, state and nation. God is calling us (His people), inducting us into His army, to strategically partner with Him to change/transform cities, our state and nation. Michigan...

01/08/2024

Don’t miss this weekend at Shekinah—Winds Of Change! Chuck Pierce will be speaking Friday night 7PM and Saturday morning 10 AM. Saturday afternoon James Vincent will be speaking about worship and its place in breakthrough in this hour. Awesome worship will be led by Steve Swanson, accompanied by Tamara Reeves, James and Robin Vincent.

People have become accustomed to live streaming. I’m glad that we have it available for those who absolutely need it. But there are times that we need to gather in person because there is an anointing released that can only be captured by being physically present. If you can at all be there in person show up! I’m not trying to use hype, but I’m saying what’s in my heart. I believe this is going to be the most strategic meeting we’ve had in several years. MICHIGAN THE VOICE https://shekinahchurch.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/2022791 

In my lifetime, I have never sensed such a serious call from God to war. We are warring spiritually for the future of our cities, state and nation. God is calling us (His people), inducting us into His army, to strategically partner with Him to change/transform cities, our state and nation. Michigan...

01/05/2024

Ed Watts and I were having a serious conversation the other day. It was concerning what we believe God is doing and what we are seeing. We were sharing together heart-to-heart. He made a very significant statement and I want to share it with you.

YOU CAN’T SEE THE RAM IN THE THICKET UNTIL YOU LAY EVERYTHING ON THE ALTAR!

Genesis 22–Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac—photo Rembrandt