The following is the first article ever written for this website NeWine Pouring. Explaining how this all got started 18 years ago.

David and I can tell you the very minute of the hour that the most remarkable shift we ever had in our lives came for us. It was the last day of a 7 day prayer and fast commitment, we were with most of the leaders of our church in the sanctuary. The prayer time had turned into a discussion about church growth, when, David and I  felt the same thing come over us at the same time. It was as if a shepherd’s rod dropped between us and the rest of the group. We suddenly felt separated, like we were standing behind a glass window in a sound proof booth, and someone hit the invisible button. “We don’t belong here any more … ” were the thoughts that silenced my mind from any further comments on the topic we were discussing. I noticed David’s countenance changed, and he looked at me. It was our immediate conversation when we got in the car and left for home. We were awestruck, as we confirmed with one another what we both had experienced- at the same time.

Without any explanation we both felt the abrupt instruction of the Spirit. It was done. We were being called out of our home, on to a journey that would culminate into an incredible mountain top experience one year later.

The whole thing was like white water rafting. All of a sudden your party is disappearing down one fork of the river and you another. There is no time, but to turn, and wave good-bye. I remembered the heart felt discussion we had with our pastor and his wife, weeks prior, about how God moves and things change, and the no fault separations that sometime occur. Little did we know our exchange was preparing us for days soon to come.  (We  were blessed and honored, however, to have our much loved pastor officiating our son’s wedding 8 months later.)

In the weeks to follow, both our jobs ended and our town house lease expired. We went on an unexpected trip all expenses paid to the mountains that turned out to be the first of two trips for refreshing and ministry. God had blessed us in such a way, that all our needs were taken care of for the whole month of September of that year. During the next couple of months we managed to take an additional trip across the United States, some how have Christmas, and purchase a vehicle. Proving once again that our personal financial restrictions mean nothing to God. David started working for a another company, we enjoyed the arrival of a new grand baby, and began packing to move; all before the year-end. We didn’t realize the magnitude of the change that we were about to embark upon. The shifts God spoke to us about truly came to pass, in every way, and on every level, as we were about to see in the days ahead.

During this time we decided to continue the prayer commitment for the remainder of the year. We often focused on the city we lived in, as well as the Eastern Seaboard, and certain regions of the United States. But it was prayer over our family, during that time, that began a series of visions and dreams where God spoke to us about changing the way we see our progression in His kingdom. We were praying one afternoon and the Spirit of the Lord said, “Why are you calling out for your inheritance as if it hasn’t come?” “You’re standing in it right now!” I opened my eyes, and in a vision of God, the living room gave way to the scene of a vineyard. It was complete with everything a vineyard would have: a winery, servants, a beautiful house, and storage buildings. I saw servants tending to the plants. I looked at the vines but there were no grapes on them. In fact, the vineyard looked as if it was already harvested, gleaned, and pruned. This concerned me so I asked the Lord, “Where are the grapes?” He said, “They are in the vats, but I thought he said baths.” It sounded like he said baths. And I was puzzled about that. But I looked over, and I saw that the grapes were already made into wine and they were in tubs ready to be poured. I was so curious about the dual wording of vats and baths, that I looked up these two words in regard to wine making in the encyclopedia (because I didn’t know the process that well). I found references to the rich bathing in wine, and vats for storage, and for the fermentation process. Praise God! Are we not the rich? We, who have immersed  ourselves in this New Wine we enjoy living our life in Jesus Christ. 

So then it was understood that the time of New Wine Pouring was for now, and the wine will be flavored by the vats it is stored in, being as culturally diverse as the family of God is in the world, with the individual signatures of each vessel pouring. And another word by the Spirit, “The bathers of the new wine, are the vats, as well, and He has made them ready for the time of New Wine Pouring.”  I have to stop and ask the question,  “Will you be that elegant bottle of wine poured in-to, that becomes empty when poured out? Or, will you truly, become the branch connected to the vine- in God’s vineyard? 

Matthew 7:20-23 (King James Version)

1 Corinthians 13:8-13 (The Message)

When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.

We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.-

Realizing then that the servants in the vineyard were angels, and they were busy under the command of God, I understood more than ever, about obedience in the Spirit, how important it is for us to pray, even when we don’t know why, even when it’s a little inconvenient, even when tongues is all we can do for hours at a time, with groanings and tears that take us through the night, and we think it’s crazy because in the natural- It doesn’t make sense.

I am reminded that there ARE operations in the spirit realm that we may not fully understand! There is MAJOR construction happening in the KINGDOM of God, and it is going on now! Our angels have assignments regarding our inheritance, there are wars that are being waged, and battles being won, souls being saved, and moves of God being prepared and administrated and we can only know some of these things by the Spirit, and walk in them by faith,  as we dwell  in the Secret Place of the Most High, so that we can have a continual, uninterrupted KNOWING, of the purposes of God… And walk in them.

Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.’ But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might KNOW the things that have been freely given to us by God.These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches….” 1 Corinthian 2:9-13

We may not always “see” these things, but God has made provision, that we might KNOW them. 

This is how we can call those things that are not as though they were.This is how we speak to the mountains and tell them to be leveled. This is how we pray in faith for the diseased ravaged body, knowing the things freely given to us by Him, as we operate in accordance to what He has purposed; In  our GIFTINGS and faith filled KNOWINGS, taught to us by the Holy Spirit that enable our call.

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Our worship, our faith declarations, and proclamations of God, and yes, the tearful groanings (in the early hours of the morning) keep these operations moving on so that they can yield, the 30, 60, and 100 fold return,of those things entrusted to us.  We need to wake up to the fact that our inheritance is NOW! It needs us now! What we do with it NOW, affects the eternity to come. When God made us, He had eternity in mind. With out faith we cannot please God, and it is accounted to us as righteousness to live by faith and not by sight. It is not what we will be, but what we already are in Christ. The one who said, tell them that I AM has sent you. Do you know how powerful those words are against hell, coming out of the mouth of that one though persecuted, and beaten, though struck and bleeding? I AM has sent me! KNOWING himself for WHO Christ is in him, not for what he sees but because the WORD of GOD says so. I am a king and a priest unto God! I have all I need for life and Godliness, I have what I need to fulfill the purposes of GOD in my life, and HIs power to demonstrate His Glory abides with in me! I am a son and I have an inheritance.

The Second trip to the Smoky Mountain…

Prelude to:     The Smokey Mountain Visitation                       And there shall be signs in the Heavens and the Earth.2nd Chapter of Joel 28-32 After our first trip to the mountains, a friend Of mine called from Franklin, North Carolina, in 2008, and asked me to pray with her regarding a matter. As we began to pray, the anointing of the Holy Spirit became very intense, and as we were praying I began to see a vision of God. I was compelled to look up at the ceiling above me in my home and the ceiling opened up and I saw the sky. I saw rumbling clouds and they were moving fast, and even though I lived near the coast, I felt like I was looking over the tip of the State  where Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and North Carolina meet. The clouds seem to gather from every direction; and then, a deluge of rain began to pour over the mountains and I saw some landslides, and damage. At the time that I had this vision the whole area was experiencing a drought. The water levels in Georgia and South Carolina, were at  crises levels. And after that.. I was facing west, standing at the tip of the four southern states; and to my left, over and above, I saw a man standing in the midst of the mountains facing towards Washington DC., as the bird flies. He was looking intently that direction, and he was leaning forward. His size was not normal (proportionately) with the mountains; he was bigger than they were. He was a man in his prime and he was wearing a blue T-shirt and blue jeans, he was Native American, and his hair was long straight down his shoulders, with the top pulled back in a pony tail.  I heard the Holy Spirit say, “It is time, now this voice will be heard in the land, and he will have his say.” NOTE: I don’t know anything about this except that there was this thing called The Longest Walk, in the Native American Community, that passed through this region during the time we were in the mountains. This man I saw was a man of God- who may have represented the Native American Church. Regardless of what this walk was, it was the voice of the First People seemingly to have the last say as they converged upon the capital of the United states in July, 2008, as America certainly turned a corner that none of us truly understood at the time. At the time of the vision which was in January 2008, I thought about the scripture that says… and the first shall be last, and the last shall be first… A few days later I was writing down all that the Lord showed me. That is when I saw a group of grandmothers, in the Spirit. I  could not see their faces, but they were bowed, and they were in travailing prayers on the steps of the White House. They were covered with blankets of earthen colors like brown tan and beige stripes; it reminded me of the shades of the color of the human race woven in one blanket; the blankets were dusty, and I thought of dust to dust and from ashes to ashes … I saw the US Senate standing up above them on the steps, but their eyes were cast down as if in shame.  What can they do? I asked the Lord what this was. He said, “The mothers are in intercession and being a voice for those who have had no voice, whose cries could not be heard…”the Crying Mothers have been, and will continue to be. And this is what I understand  of the vision: I see a people whom God has chosen in the midst of a people, and they are anointed to do his work, and speak his word:, and he has raised them up for such a time as this. And he has put love and compassion in their heart for their country and the souls that live with them in the land. And God said, “These have a mission to America. They are of all different colors and from many different places, but it is the First Peoples who will have the last say, before America turns her next corner.” And I asked, “The last say before what?” But there was no answer…and I wondered, can we still make things better if we listen to God now? We had no reason to believe that we would be up in those parts again from the previous September; however, in June of 2008  God opened up a door for us to spend 10  weeks in that area where we experienced what we now call the “The Smokey Mountain Visitation”. (The first week we were up there, the region enjoyed several days of welcomed rain. This was a confirmation that we were there in the right season. We experienced an outpouring of happenings, during the time we spent in that region. It was a step of faith, because we did not know where we were going to be going next. It was a pivotal point during our transition, and much of what we have come into, streams from our time there.Update June-Aug 2008 The Lord sent us up to Franklin, North Carolina and we joined with believers up there, in prayer. And we stayed in  the home of a faithful sister for 10 weeks. And prayer and intercession for the region, and nations, went up during our time there and God gave us  many words of prophecy, and many visions, and we also, had break through prayer for a ministry to the town of Cherokee. There we battled a prince of darkness who manifested in the form of a bear in the heat of the- “Bear Market” or otherwise known as  “The Repo- Bear market” in Wall Street Terms. The Holy Spirit revealed how it was operating against God’s people,  in different regions of the United States. After three days of prayer the darkness finally broke. That night God TV televised one of Todd Bentley’s last few appearances before his stepping down. He was leading the viewing nations in prayer for America. The cries of the people in warfare shook my spirit. “There hitting it!” I exclaimed, looking at my husband as we both joined in prayer. “Their hitting the Bear of Darkness!” We had coined the term, Bear of Darkness, sometime during the three days of warfare that we were engaged in. We continued to thank God in our prayers from that time on, that this Power of Darkness would be  broken over God’s people.  Note: We had no Idea how truly prophetic all this was to become, in the days to follow. Every true break through that I have ever experienced has always been one that has culminated into the high praises of God with prophetic Word declarations, to establish His  purpose and will  in the matter. It gives those in prayer revelatory understanding, and strategic guidance in walking out that “break through”  in there lives, churches, and ministries.  This time of prayer was no exception, a song with great joy and sense of victory ended our three day session. In closing we were blessed with the Rising Son Vision-with gift bearing angels. Testimonies of “gift bearing angels” were given for days after. From the Rising Son Vision, came light through the trees and the Warrior Bride (with out spot or wrinkle) vision came from that. Prayer Journal of the Smokey Mountatins Spotted ones ( See Smokey Mountain Visitation ) New Wine Pouring The Baals (See Smokey Mountain Visitation)New Wine Pouring The Rod Beating the Grass ( Smokey Mountain Visitation )New Wine Pouring The Tower of Strengthis  a Rock Mountain           In the Clefts of the ROCK   Prayer Break Through    China Malaysia Koreas Quick note from prayer Journal: The Lost Korea- Birthed into the kingdom from the Place of the Dead.. I thought all of Asia was finished being born, but then there was one last great contraction and the woman groaned with abating breath and strength, I looked down into the birth canal and saw the place of the dead. I watched as the church travailed grievously in another contraction and then it happened, like prisoners released from a dungeon of darkness, hundreds and thousands ran up through the birth canal and flooded into the kingdom. it was North Korea. The church of Korea, though grievously tested, is birthing a great harvest of souls.

Prelude to: The Smokey Mountain Visitation

In the Clefts of the Rock  “O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the secret places of the cliff,        Let me see your  face,  Let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet,     And your face is lovely.”     Song of Solomon 2:14  There was a towering rock in a very remote, and quiet place. Deep in the gorge where the base of it was. The air was crisp and clean,  …and the silence was profound.      I leaned into the rock, and rested against its smooth formation and took drink from a stream that poured quietly down from a crevice. It was the purest freshest most satisfying drink I have ever had. I asked the Lord, “Where are we?”         He said, “This is Our Place, where those who know me abide in my Glory .” The Secret Place of the Most High. Psalm 91:1                                                 Main Menu