Hi, I'm Leanne Friesman, and this is Restoring Word.
Thank you for continuing to like and subscribe to the channel.
We've seen some amazing growth on YouTube in the recent months, and I'm thankful for
that.
Today I've got kind of an interesting word for you.
It's a little bit of a prophetic warning.
It's a little bit of a prophetic observation.
It's certainly an update.
So let's begin.
I live in Oklahoma, and in Oklahoma we are notorious for living in tornado alley.
Tornado season around here is really heavy April and May, and we all watch the skies.
We look and listen upward.
We listen to our local television stations and radio stations and storm chasers.
We have something called the TORCON level or system, and in Oklahoma, when there's
a storm front that's coming, we are generally prepared.
We're not scared.
We live with this every day.
We know the storms are going to form somewhere west of Oklahoma City generally, late afternoon,
when you have the cold front and the warm fronts hitting each other.
We know that those storm fronts are going to move very slowly across the state.
They're going to hit Edmond and then follow the highways all the way up here to Tulsa.
And then from Tulsa, they're going to make their way up generally up through Joplin,
Missouri.
And I'll never forget watching this ginormous storm cloud form over my home one year, and
I thought to myself, it's just a matter of time before this comes down somewhere, and
it's not going to be good.
And that was the tornado that came down in Joplin, Missouri.
I can remember for multiple of years going down to the state vocal competition in Shawnee,
Oklahoma, and standing on the steps of Oklahoma Baptist University, Raley's Chapel, and looking
out in the fields over to the west and thinking to myself, oh, it's just a matter of time
before a tornado comes through those fields and hits this campus.
And unfortunately, this last year that happened, it peeled back a portion of the roof on that
glorious famous chapel that we all love so much.
It was devastating.
And I thought to myself, ooh, the Holy Spirit was speaking to me about that for a long time.
Why?
Because as Christians, we're called to pray and to intercede.
We're called to be watchmen on the wall.
So today, my word is really about the watchers.
We are to watch.
We are to pray.
We are to observe.
We know the season.
We know how it feels.
We know how the clouds look.
We know how the radar is.
My kids make fun of me because I'm always on the phone.
Hey, guys, are you watching the weather?
That's me.
There's something else that happens during tornado season that's actually quite humorous,
and that is my husband is not a complacent Christian.
He is one of these guys who will stand up and say, watch what you say.
We're going to speak.
We're going to bind.
We're going to command this storm to go in Jesus' name.
We're going to take authority over this.
And I'm telling you, year after year, we have watched tornadoes come down, unfortunately,
over in Wagner County.
This is the reality of what we're living in.
Well, what am I trying to say today?
Well, you know, we've got some storm fronts going on all across America.
We've got a war in Ukraine.
It's not going well, and it's not going to end well.
We've got massive debt in the United States of America.
And I grew up in a family that was very much aware of what was happening in the banking
system and in the finance system.
So unfortunately, it's something I also pray about and watch.
We've got a war in the Middle East with Israel and Hamas, up in Syria with Hezbollah.
That's not good.
We've got a completely polarized political parties here in America.
Both parties are so paralyzed.
We all wish there were other options.
There really isn't.
We've got a public education system right now in America that's an absolute mess, and
a lot of it is because society is in a mess, and we've got parents.
that don't discipline, and as teachers, we can't discipline either.
Our government is starting to use
different agencies within our government as a weapon against others.
And it's all wrong, and it's all out of order,
and frankly, it's un-American. So what do we do
with all this? We see the signs, okay? Those are really the signs.
Just as we watch signs during tornado season, and we
prepare for the incoming storms. We watch the news, we listen to the radio,
we have our alerts on our phone that go off that tell us it's a tornado watch.
We know that a watch means watch the skies, prepare.
Something is coming, and I guess what I'm trying to say
to you today, the audience at Restoring Word, is there's a storm
coming, and you had better get ready.
And we don't get ready out of
the spirit of fear. You know, I tell my children all the time, you were
born to live right now. You're not to operate in fear. You're to operate
in faith. You were born to be a light. You were born to lead.
Fear is not of God. I've got some great scriptures for you today. Joshua 1.9
Have I not commanded you?
Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened.
Do not be dismayed. For the Lord your God is
with you wherever you go. 1 Timothy 1.7
is another great one. For God has not given us a spirit of
fear, but of power, love, and of a sound mind.
Okay, so in here it says self-control, but
it's really about controlling what you're thinking.
A sound mind. Do you know how many kids I work with on a daily
base that are polarized by anxiety?
I'm a SPED teacher. I write IEPs. Pretty much every kid on my
roster struggles from anxiety of some sort. It's
really disturbing. Isaiah 41.10
Fear not, for I am with you. Be not dismayed.
God is with us. We are not to
be dismayed. For I am your God, and I will
strengthen you, and I will help you, and I will uphold
you with my righteous right hand. What's coming, and coming soon
in America
is going to be another Pearl Harbor.
Another 9-11. What's coming to America is
something that is so devastating, it's going to yank the complacency
out of the body of Christ. It's going to
deal with our attitude of, well, I just
don't want to say the politically incorrect thing, because I might offend
somebody, and that might affect the offering this Sunday.
All of that nonsense in the body of Christ
has got to stop. Because this season
that we're entering now, this new storm season, we're going to
have to be prepared. Okay?
How do you prepare? Well, number one, you trust God. Number two, you listen to the Holy Spirit, and
you don't go somewhere unless the Lord tells you to.
You don't open doors to things that are not of Him.
You're led by His peace, you're led by His grace,
you're led by His provision, and if you have a red flag about something,
you just don't go there.
The Torcon scale measures the
possibility of a storm that could come in. It could anywhere from a 2
to an 8. 20% to 80%.
The Torcon scale right now for America,
in terms of the storm that's on the horizon for us, the next
12 months are going to be crazy.
We're going to see all kinds of fake media. We're going to see all kinds of
fake propaganda machines. We're going to see a lot
of stuff. Right now, China is having a heyday posting crazy stuff on
TikTok and making sure that it gets into the American news feed. Do you
realize that you're being manipulated by your social media?
Yeah, you are. Are you aware of it?
You need to be.
2024 is going to see some amazing things, just like in Oklahoma.
We live here, and we have Torcon. We know when the storms come.
We're not afraid. In fact, Oklahomans are crazy. They're notorious
for going out on the streets with binoculars and their cameras and
taking pictures of the oncoming storm. They say hi to their neighbors and
say, Hey, I like your flowers you put out this year.
Your daffodils are still looking good. That kind of stuff. That's completely normal
for Okie territory. We know the storm comes.
it's at, we're not afraid. The body of Christ, you better wake up, you better
know where that storm is, you better know who you are in Christ, and you better
know how to speak the word and be led by the Spirit of God. Because in this next
season, this next 12 months, you're gonna have to be very discerning. You can't be
fooled by the the fake text messages that are trying to get you to click on
something so they can steal your identity. You're gonna have to be careful
about what news organizations you're listening to. Frankly, you can't trust
any of them anymore, honestly. Who are you listening to? Are you listening to the
Holy Spirit more than you're listening to the television set or or the
different voices that are on YouTube? I mean, I'm one of them, you know, I know.
It's not healthy in America right now, but I do say think we're going to see
some amazing things. We're gonna see an outpouring of the Holy Ghost, we're
gonna see a move of God, we're gonna see financial breakthroughs, we're gonna see
financial provision, we're gonna see God do some amazing things, and we're gonna
walk it all out by faith, not by fear.
However, when the Pearl Harbor event happens, what could that look like? Well,
you know, we've had anywhere from 7 million to 10 million illegal immigrants
cross our borders. Most of them are not Mexicans. We know that Hezbollah has
camps in Mexico. Have they crossed our border? Probably. Do we have radical
people that want to hurt Americans in America right now? Sure. Do I think
there'll be something that shakes the American church out of its complacency?
Yes. Yes. What could that be? Well, probably some sort of a bomber in a
megachurch, some sort of a bomber on a bus or a ballgame. What's happening in
the Middle East, unfortunately, is coming here now. We've seen it hit Germany.
We've seen it in the streets in Paris and in concerts in Paris. We've seen it
in bus explosions in London. We're next. Are you ready? Don't be afraid. Pray. Bind.
Speak the Word of God. Stand on the Word. Stand in authority. You're born for such
a time as this. You're not to operate in a spirit of fear. You're supposed to be
using wisdom. You're supposed to be listening to the Holy Spirit because
He's good and He will lead and guide us in this next season. But don't be
complacent. Don't just think that life is going to go on like normal here in
America. No. No.
The TORCON scale right now, spiritually, is very high. Don't be afraid.
Prepare. Don't operate in fear. Operate in faith. Thanks for listening and have a
great day.