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Prophetic Word: Call Forth The Wind To Shake Your Harvest Tree!

Prophetic Word: Call Forth The Wind To Shake Your Harvest Tree!

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Many of you have sowed seeds into this ministry over the last year. You’ve named your seeds, and we’ve come into agreement with you with your prayer for those seeds. I’m teaching you how to be spiritual farmers and how to operate according to kingdom finance principles. If you want to break out of a season of lack, you have to sow seeds into next season. 

I’ve sown many seeds into my family and into my ministry, and these seeds are starting to come to harvest. I want more of those seeds to come to harvest, and I’m like, “More, Lord. More, Lord!” 

After a recent experience with my dog’s tennis ball getting stuck in the tree and our unsuccessful attempts to get it down, I was like, “How’s that ball going to come down?” The Lord stopped me and said to me, “Command My winds to come and shake the fruit down from the trees.” 

I knew he was showing me, not just about the ball, but that we need to command His winds to come and shake the fruit down of all the seeds that we have sown into the fertile soil of the kingdom of God.

Watch the video below to hear this word in its entirety, and then pray the prayer that follows to command His winds to come and shake the fruit down from your trees!

 

Pray Out Loud

  • “Heavenly Father, Father God, in the name of Jesus Christ, I come to you today reminding You of the good seed that I have sown into the fertile ground of Your kingdom. I believe by faith that my seed has grown and has borne fruit, and that fruit is ready for harvest and ready to drop from the tree into my hands. I ask that all the good fruit from all the good seed that I have sown in faith into Your kingdom would drop into my hands right now, in the name of Jesus Christ. 


  • “I call forth, by faith, the winds of the Holy Spirit to shake my fruit off the trees and into my hands and into my baskets and into my bank accounts and into my family and into my household and into my land. I receive my abundant harvest, in Jesus’ name, because You are faithful to Your word, Father God, and every seed that I have planted in faith, going back over the past year, going back years, even going back generations – every good seed that my ancestors sowed into Your kingdom – and that I have sown into Your kingdom, I call forth that harvest now, and I command the fruit to be shaken off the trees by the power of the Holy Ghost into my hands now! I believe it. I see it. I receive it by faith. 


  • “Thank You for this word, Father God. Thank You for Your faithfulness to our seed. Thank You for Your abundant kingdom. Thank You for teaching us how to be spiritual farmers. Thank You for Your word.” 

Hold out your hands and continue speaking in faith.

  • “In Jesus’ name, the winds of the Holy Ghost have come and have shaken my good fruits, my abundant harvest from the trees into my hands and into my bushel baskets because of the faithfulness of God who has brought my good seed to harvest, in Jesus Christ’s name. Hallelujah!! Whoo hoooo!!” 
Prophetic Insight: Is God Showing You A Dragonfly? What Does It Mean?

Prophetic Insight: Is God Showing You A Dragonfly? What Does It Mean?

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This is a transcription of an excerpt of the broadcast of Life in the Faith Lane on February 21, 2022.

Watch the video, and then read the transcript and poem below and see the links for resources on dreams that follow.

 

ANNAMARIE: Do y’all know the story of the dragonfly? It’s very prophetic. When we look at animals, and I have li, I have little bluebirds on too, my little bluebird earrings. My daughter gave me those. 

But the dragonfly, when you, when you see cr, animals in nature, you see nature, and you think, “Wow, I keep seeing dragonflies,” or, “I keep seeing butterflies. Is that the Holy Spirit speaking to me? Is that God telling me something?” Yes, it is! The Holy Spirit will speak to you through nature. He will speak to you through His creation. All right? 

And you have to be very careful. Do not look up on Google, you know, “Oh, what does the dragon, what is the spiritual meaning of a dragonfly?” Be very careful because it will lead you into, uh, the, the occultNew Age meanings which are not of God. They’re not of God, right? There’s, there’s no such thing as a spirit animal. No. No. There is not. There’s only one spirit. That’s the Holy Spirit. He created it all, and He created everything with meaning to teach us, to, to use to teach us and to lead us. 

So when you see an animal, and you keep seeing it over and over and over again, just go to the Holy Spirit and say, “What are you trying to speak to me, Holy Spirit? What are you trying to tell me?” And He will lead you to why He created that creature, how He created that creature, what’s the nature of that creature, okay? 

So with the dragonfly, it’s so beautiful. The dragonfly is like the little mudbug for like the longest time. She has like this really hard shell, and she lives under the murky waters, you know, and, um, she usually is like along the bottom, like, you know, in the swampy area. 

But when it, it’s, it’s, it’s time for her to grow, when it’s time for her to transform, it’s time for her to pull herself up out of those, the muddy bottom, right, pull herself up out of the mud and look for a stalk or a, a, a reed or a, a plant or usually a strong stalk of grass in the water. 

And she will begin to grab ahold of that stalk of grass and begin to climb up, and as she climbs up out of that mud and out of that mire, right, she climbs up just above the water line. She gets herself above the waters and grabs ahold of that piece of grass, and she allows the sun to gently warm her and dry out that crusty shell. And the warm winds and, right, the warm spring winds and the warms, the warming of the sun begins to dry out that crusty shell on the dragonfly, right? 

And then soon, that shell cracks open. It cracks open, and her wings begin to emerge out of that crusty shell, and these beautiful, sparkly, bejeweled wings, and, and her eyes begin to sparkle. And her wings begin to sparkle, and she begins to stretch out of that shell, and the sun warms her and glistens on her wings. 

And she looks like a beautiful jewel. She’s come out of the mud. She’s come out of them mire. She’s climbed to the higher place. She’s climbed into the light, and the, the beautiful soft, warming winds, right, like the breath of life, the breath of the Holy Spirit begins to blow on her. 

The warming light of the beams of Jesus Christ begin to shine on her, and she begins to sparkle and shine and grow and stretch. And she’s like, “I’m going to climb a little higher, and I’m going to leave that crusty shell behind me, and I’m going to shine for Jesus.” 

So she climbs out of that shell, and she gets to the very, very tippy top of that grass, right. She gets to the very, very tippy top of that grass, and she’s, she’s glistening in the sunlight. She’s glistening in the sunlight. Then all of a sudden, she waits for the perfect breath of wind, the perfect breath of wind like that perfect breath of the Holy Spirit to just get up underneath her wings so she can start to move her wings and start to flutter and soar and then that beautiful breath of the Holy Spirit comes upon her, that beautiful perfect wind as she glistens in the sunshine, and she launches her feet off that piece of grass. And she takes that leap of faith, and the winds are beautifully on her wings and the sun glistening as she shines and sparkles in the sunlight as, as the winds and the breath of life propel her and she soars across the glistening waters. Hallelujah! 

And do you know what the dragonfly eats for lunch? Mosquitoes! Mosquitoes. Those pesky blood suckers! Mosquitoes that cause disease and cause problems, the dragonfly is a great example of who we are, who we are, how we grow, how we transform. 

And it, it’s so connected to scripture. It is God that plucks our feet out of the mirey mud. Maybe Beth can find that scripture in Psalms, right. You pull my feet, O Lord, O God, out of the mirey clay, out of the mirey mud, right. And then even in Isaiah where it says, those who wait upon the Lord, right, those who wait upon the Lord will neither stumble, right, they will, they will be lifted up and, like up, up on like eagle’s wings, right, like the dragonfly, she’s lifted up. It’s, it’s, we, she, she just wa, she just waits just for that perfect moment with the Holy Spirit, that breath of life. And she’s lifted up like eagle’s wings. The Lord will always lift you up.

And we’ve got to crack out of our shell, right. We’ve got to come out of, of, um, you know, we got to know that we can be confident to sparkle in the light of Jesus, that He is with us. He wants us to crack out of these shells, crack out of these worldly ways and sparkle and shine for him and spread our wings. 

So I love the dragonfly, and I’ve got these hairpins, they’re these little hairpins. I got them for my wedding, and I wore them for my rehearsal dinner for my wedding 22 years ago.

Michael Lee Strawhand and I will be married 22 years April 22. We’re both born on March 22. We have the same birthday, me and my husband. We have the same birthday, March 22. 

And when we got married in North Carolina, we, we, well, I was working in NASCAR, so I had to make sure … I had a lot of friends that were going to come to the wedding from NACAR, and I had to have it on a weekend that there was no races. And so I had to have it on Easter weekend because they don’t race on Easter, and so, uh, April 22 of, uh, the year 2000 is when Mike and I got married in North Carolina, and it was Easter weekend. It was so awesome. And so 22 is me and Mike’s number. And I didn’t even know back then that it meant key. Now I know. Oh, look at God. Look at God. 

So I hope you enjoyed that story of the dragonfly, and what I’ll do is I’ll have our wonderful tech director, David Piccirillo, make a video about the dragonfly for you all and that story.

And I wrote a poem. I wrote a poem. Uh, I wrote a poem about the dragonfly for my daughter, Landry, for her, her 19th birthday, and I gave it to her. 

And, uh, that dragonfly story was given to me by the Holy Spirit because I kept seeing them, and I kept asking the Holy Spirit, “What are  you saying to me?” And, um, He told me, “Annamarie, you’re going through a time of transformation, and you’re about to shine. You’re about to soar, and you’re about to shine.” And it was a time where I was not soaring or shining, and I had to really believe Him, and I had to really stretch myself up higher and reach for Him. 

And, um, when you grab ahold of Him and you reach for Jesus and you, you pull yourself to His light, He will meet you there, my friend. So if you’re not feeling very sparkly right now, you’re not feeling very shiny, um, and you feel like you’re about to go through a transformation, look to this little story of the dragonfly and know that He is pulling you up out of the mud and out of the mire and out of the darkness, and He wants you to grab ahold of Him and, and be faithful and climb higher and climb towards His light, and let the Holy Spirit breathe on you and break open out of that shell and then watch what He does with you. Isn’t that beautiful? 

All because He showed me a dragonfly. You know, the Holy Spirit wants to speak to you that way. He, He wants to show you these things in nature to encourage you. That’s what the prophetic is, right? The prophetic is to encourage you, to lead you, to give you the step-by-steps to move you forward so you can bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit in your life and fulfill what Jesus Christ has called you to do. Amen? Oh, I hope that story blessed you, of the dragonfly. 

Gabriela Parrot says, “Praise God, I’m grabbing on to Him.”

Barbara Wade says, “Believe even when you can’t see Him. Thank You, Jesus.”

Beth Shibley bringing scripture: Psalm 13:3 – “Turn and answer me, O Lord my God. Restore the sparkle to my eyes…”

I just said that about the dragonflies also becoming sparkly. That’s beautiful scripture, Beth. I love it.

What are y’all saying here? Is this blessing you, my friends? I hope so. I hope so. Little dragonfly. 

Hope Dickinson: “Amen, God is so faithful.”

Duncan Dee says, “We have lots of dragonflies all the time.”

You know, many of you … I’ve told that story, uh, uh, prophetic story about the dragonfly many times, but what we’ll do is we’ll create a page on my website with the poem, and we’ll take this little story that I just did on video, and we’ll put that on there for you so you all can always have it to encourage you. And ask the Holy Spirit to show you a dragonfly today just out of faithfulness. He will. He might show it to you in a picture. He  might show it to you on a design of something. He wants to talk with you and walk with you. Amen?

Following is the poem I wrote for my daughter:

The Damsel Dragonfly
By Annamarie Strawhand
Dedicated to Landry Leigh Strawhand – 5/1/21

Damsel was ready to climb up from the muddy, deep waters
She was young but knew she was made to soar to great heights
Ready to feel the wind in her wings and the sun on her face
Her hard shell was heavy, but she was ready to break out
A sturdy reed to climb upon was before her
She pulled herself up, climbing out up of the murky water into the sunlight
The warm breeze blew on her shell as the sun gently warmed her
Damsel’s shell cracked open, and her wings began to emerge
She took a step, and her shell fell off as the light was fully upon her
She stretched her wings, glistening in the sun
She climbed to the top of the reed on her tiptoe
Bravely, she let go
The breeze came under her wings and lifted her above the waters
Clean, new, light, and dry, sparkling in the sun
Damsel SOARED! 

Resources For Dream Interpretation

DREAM INTERPRETATION FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE – HOW TO CANCEL A BAD OR DEMONIC DREAM

ANNAMARIE STRAWHAND: DOES GOD GIVE US NIGHTMARES?

Dream Interpretation From A Biblical Perspective – How To Cancel A Bad or Demonic Dream

Dream Interpretation From A Biblical Perspective – How To Cancel A Bad or Demonic Dream

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Here are some things to understand with dreams:

When you sleep, your soul and your spirit are always awake. You have three types of dreams.

1.) Soulish Dreams – These come from stuff in your soul that is either from wounds or trauma from your past that gets stirred up, along with cell memories in your body that bring these things to the surface that the Holy Spirit wants you to deal with.  The Holy Spirit may be bringing you to repentance and even prompting you to get these wounds healed in your soul because He loves you and wants you healed and whole – you prosper as your soul prospers.  (See my soul cleansing prayer here.)

2.) Demonic Dreams – These come from demons and demonic assignments that are working against you – these demons only have access if you allow it and agree with it.  Demonic dreams must be cancelled in the name of Jesus as soon as you wake up, (unless you destroyed the demon in your dream, then praise God – the more you SUIT UP and take your Authority in Christ every day – the more authority you will have over anything demonic in your dreams!).  If you had a demonic dream years ago you can cancel it right now in Jesus name.

DEMONIC DREAM INTERPRETATION – IF THE DREAM HAD ANY NEGATIVITY, FEAR, STRIFE, ANGRY PEOPLE, CONFUSION,  OR YOU WERE LOST, WANDERING, LOSING THINGS, LOOKING FOR STOLEN THINGS, GETTING INTO STRANGE VEHICLES, STRANGER DRIVING YOU,  STRANGE PEOPLE FORCE FEEDING YOU – BEING CHASED, ATTACKED OR HELD CAPTIVE,  CAR ACCIDENTS, DEATH,  SEXUAL PERVERSION, THAT IS DEMONIC AND NEEDS TO BE CANCELLED AS SOON AS YOU WAKE UP – USE DISCERNMENT – IF IT CAUSED YOU ANY FEAR OR UPSET FEELING IN YOUR SPIRIT LISTEN TO THAT FEELING – FEAR, STRIFE, STRANGE STUFF THAT CAUSES CONFUSION IS NOT FROM GOD!!

Pray this to cancel a bad or demonic dream: “Father God in the name of Jesus I cancel that dream I had about _______. I renounce everything in that dream in Jesus name and I enforce the Blood of Jesus over that dream and mark that dream and everything that happened in that dream null and void in Jesus name! By the authority of Jesus Christ and by the power of the blood of Jesus, I send all curses and witchcraft sent to harm me in that dream back to the place from where it was sent and close the doors to all curses and witchcraft and seal it with the Blood of Jesus Christ!  Father God, in Jesus name I ask you to release your Holy Fire against any demons or demonic assignments in that dream and burn them to ashes!  Henceforth nothing from that dream will never be able to bother me again!  Father God, I ask you to send me Angelic protection over my dreams and sleep.  I receive your Angels Father God, thank you for sending them to keep me in all my ways, according to your word in Psalm 91.  I declare every night from this day forward I shall have sweet sleep and Holy Spirit filled dreams!  I now invite the Holy Spirit to come into my dreams tonight!  I declare my dreams are covered and protected by the Blood of Jesus Christ!  Thank You Father God for your love, promises and protection over my dreams and sleep!  Father God,  I believe you are doing all things for my good, even speaking to me in my dreams and I want to hear your voice Father God! I now dedicate and consecrate my dreams and sleep to you Father God all the days of my life, for Your Glory in Jesus name!”

Confess this out loud today: “I hear from God. I am led by His Holy Spirit. I know my Father’s voice, and the voice of a stranger I will not follow. I am guided by the Holy Spirit and God will guide me all the days of my life. His HOLY SPIRIT will guide me and give me the answers that I need. I renounce all unholy, ungodly voices!  Therefore, I invite the HOLY SPIRIT right now to come inside me and guide me.  I command my mind, body, soul and spirit to yield to the voice of the Holy Spirit in Jesus name!”

For Children: You can put your hands on your child’s forehead and simply pray: “In Jesus name I cancel the bad dream and I ask You Jesus to send your Angels to protect ________ while she/he sleeps.  We invite You Holy Spirit and Lord Jesus to come into his/her dreams to bring sweet and happy messages and restful sleep in Jesus name, Amen”

Children’s Bedtime Note: it is helpful to anoint your children before bed to soothe them, invite the Holy Spirit and declare scripture over them before they sleep – see my anointing prayers here.

3.) Holy Spirit Dreams – These dreams are messages, instruction and confirmations from God for your life and for others lives. All dreams from the Holy Spirit must be written down and dated, then ask the Holy Spirit to give you guidance on that dream meaning and how to apply it.  This could take days, weeks and even months before you have the full revelation.  Holy Spirit dreams can be special things being handed to you in a dream for you to get a breakthrough, a key, a sword, a scroll,  a lantern, etc.  These items can all lead you to your next steps, and of course take you to the word of God.  Having a baby in a dream means you are about to birth something ordained for your life’s purpose.  If you are actually trying to conceive a child in the natural, you may also dream about your baby or child to come.  If you see a certain prophet or teacher in that dream it means you are to seek the teachings of that person for a next step in your life right now.

NOW please understand – your dream meanings can include, colors or numbers being shown to you, even other signs. YOU MUST FOCUS ON BIBLICAL MEANINGS of these things only. The Holy Spirit’s job is to guide you to the Word of God and deeper revelation of the Kingdom.  Stick with BIBLICAL sources. For color meanings, look up the meanings of the colors of WORSHIP FLAGS. These colors have been deeply studied from the bible before these flags are made.  This is my source the Holy Spirit led me to and He has confirmed it over and over again.  For number meanings, I suggest the teachings of Troy Brewer “Numbers That Preach/PropheticNumbers.com” for a good Biblical resource.  Driving a vehicle in your dream means your Divine Purpose or Ministry.  Being in houses that need cleaning, restoration means your “soul needs a cleanup” (see my Soul Cleansing Prayer Here.)   Being in houses of your family means your family bloodline may need repentance – and to pray for your family’s salvation – it can also mean to focus on praying for your family to receive their blessings and inheritance and to go into the Courts of Heaven to remove any curses.  Being in a bathroom or going to the bathroom means you must repent of your sins and focus on soul cleansing and cleaning up your life. These are common things.  I do my best to help you.  Seeing certain animals in dreams should only be studied from biblical meanings or the nature of how God made that animal.  If the animal attacks you that is demonic and must be canceled.  DO NOT LOOK UP these things randomly online because it could lead you to new age and occult meanings that is NOT of God, understand ‘spirit animals’ is NOT of God!  We only have the HOLY SPIRIT, period – and HE is creator of all living things, and His Spirit – The Spirit of the Living God is alive on the earth speaking through all creation right now to us.  For example if you see a dragonfly or a butterfly repeatedly in the natural or in your dreams – the Holy Spirit is giving you a message, look up the nature of these – how do they grow, transform, what is their nature? God put a message for us in the nature of His creation, that could apply to your life at that moment.

Now if you are not sure if a dream is from God or not, Pray this prayer when you wake up:  “Holy Spirit, if that dream was not of you, I do not receive it in Jesus name. But, Holy Spirit, if that dream was of you, I receive it and ask for the interpretation, understanding, application and how to pray and proceed in Jesus name.”

Before you go to sleep, cover your dreams and sleep with the blood of Jesus. Cancel any demonic assignments and any demons that were assigned to you that night and tell them to leave and forbid them from touching your dreams and sleep in Jesus name the blood of Jesus is against them! Decree you have sweet sleep as written in the bible and your dreams and sleep belong to God. Invite Jesus and the Holy Spirit to visit you in your dreams and give you divine strategies for your life from the throne room of God in your sleep! Ask Father God in Jesus Name to post His Sentry Angels to surround your bed and stand guard over you with their fiery swords and shields as you sleep and protect you from all evil day and night. Anoint your bed on all four corners and your head and feet with anointing oil. Decree your bed holy and belongs to God! (See anointing prayers here.)

Be blessed! The Holy Spirit will guide you through your dreams and He always points to the word of God to confirm things – so stay in the word and He will reveal so much to you on your next steps in your life and purpose!

Sweet and restful dreams and sleep is God’s promise to you!

Proverbs 3:24 “When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.”

Much love to you and enjoy your sleep – it’s the best time to get revelation from the Holy Spirit!  He WANTS to speak to you in your dreams!  He loves to meet you there and help you with your life and purpose!

Annamarie Strawhand – Faith and Coach

Additional Resources

Prophetic Insight: Is God Showing You A Dragonfly? What Does It Mean?

Annamarie Strawhand: Does God Give Us Nightmares?

 

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