THE ROAR OF THE LION OF JUDAH
A Weapon Of War For This Hour!
Prophecy given through Barbara A. Williams, August 16, 2003
God
has been sharing with Me some things that He is going to do in this hour to
allow His people to experience a different facet of His character. We are going
to experience the Lion of the Tribe of Judah as He begins to roar a very deep
roar in the realm of the Spirit; as He begins to speak from His throne things
that are going to change the face of nations and change them very quickly
because the Lion of the tribe of Judah is hungry. He’s shaking Himself, He’s
waking Himself up.
He’s stepping into His kingly robes and His kingly position. He is tired of
the devil & what He’s been getting away with with people. He’s really
tired of the way the devil pushes His people around. He’s tired of His people
not really living fully for Him. And we think the Lion’s going to sleep
forever, but He will wake up and shake Himself with a roar, “and it will come
thundering from the throne of Heaven, and it will resound throughout the realm
of the Spirit, and all of the enemies of God will fear and shake and tremble.
And all of those who are with God will be strengthened by that sound, and we
will be encouraged by that sound, and we will reverberate that sound, and we
will pick up that sound throughout the realm of the Spirit,” says the
Lord.
“Oh the roar! The Roar… The Roar… The Roar… The Roooaaarr of the Lion of
the tribe of Judah,” says the Spirit of God. “That roar will come into the
earth. That roar will be heard. That roar is the roar that will paralyze the
enemy. That roar is a roar that will put the enemy to flight. For some of you
have wondered, ‘What is going to take, God, for us to be able to win more
souls? What is it going to take, God, to bring My children into obedience to
you? What is it going to take, God, to make all the enemies that you said had no
authority over Me, to really put them under My feet and make them My footstool?
What is it going to take, Lord, for Me to have the success and to have the
victory that you want Me to have?’” says the Spirit of God. And the Lord
says to you, “it’s going to take a different voice, it’s going to take a
different sound, it’s going to take a different utterance in the realm of the
Spirit,” says the Lord. “It’s going to take the roar that comes from the
throne, and the roar that comes from the Lion, and the roar that comes from the
Lion who has been asleep because He has been content because YOU have been
content,” says the Spirit of the Lord. “But now you are disturbed,” says
the Lord. “And now you are waking up, and now you are speaking to Me and you
are talking to Me in a way that I can hear and I can understand because many of
you see the things of the Spirit that you desire to have, and you know that they
belong to you,” says the Spirit of God, “but many of them have eluded you.
Oh yes, you have some joy. Oh yes, you have some peace, but you know there is
more to this than that,” says the Spirit of God. “You know there is deeper
depths in Me. You know there’s more blessing in Me. You know there’s more to
Me than the eye can see,” says the Spirit of God. “But somehow you haven’t
been able to get quite in there,” says the Spirit. “And you know that the
way is not the way that others say that it is,” says the Spirit of God, “because
you don’t even believe that if you try those things it’s going to lead to
where you need to go,” says the Spirit.
“So YOU are hungry, and YOU are ravening, and YOU are looking and YOU are
seeking,” says the Lord. “You are seeking for more of Me. You are seeking
for more of My Power, you are seeking for the opportunity to pounce on that old
devil, and FINALLY throw him down, and FINALLY get him under your feet,” says
the Spirit of God. “And I have that strength for you,” says the Lord. “I
have that ability for you,” says the Spirit of God, “because you HAVE asked
the right question, and you DO have the right word on your lips, and you DO want
the right things, the things that I’ve promised you, the things that lead to
your joy, and your peace, and your contentment on this earth; that lead to your
power in ministry, and your power amongst your peers, and your power in your
family,” says the Spirit of God. “I have all those things for you, and you’re
right to desire them,” says the Spirit of God.
“But there is one aspect of My character that very few people tap into,”
says the Spirit of God. “And that is that roaring sound that thunders in the
realm of the Spirit,” says the Lord. “That sound that puts every devil on
notice that one of My children is waking up and desiring what belongs to them,”
says the Spirit of God. “It is that killer instinct, that ability to know when
to pounce and when to crouch and when to swipe and when to grab and when to pull
down and throw down your prey, and take everything that he's stolen back from
him,” says the Spirit of God. “It is that stealth in the Spirit,” says the
Lord. “It is that crouching in the Spirit,” says the Lord. “It is that
ability to move swiftly at My unction,” says the Spirit of God.
“So when you see, and when you hear, and when you know that the prey is
approaching, (for the enemy comes as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour,
but there is a stronger roar in the Spirit. There is a roar that comes from My
throne, and there’s a roar that moves through My people, and there is a roar
that thunders from the throne room of heaven. There is a roar yet to given out
by My people,” says the Spirit of God. “There is a thundering in the Spirit
YET to be given out!” says the Spirit of God. “And it is for those people
who are not here to play games. It is for those people who want the real and not
the false. It is for those people who are not satisfied in religion, and biding
there time ‘until Jesus comes’,” says the Spirit of God. “It is for
those people who intend to devour, and intend to grab, and intend to wrestle and
be violent for Me until every enemy is made My footstool and your footstool,”
says the Spirit of God. )
“For there is a sound coming… there is a sound coming that will make every
demon tremble. EVERY demon tremble… even the ones that have made you tremble,
THIS roar will make him tremble,” says the Spirit of God. “And I am
releasing it to you, and as you know Me, and as you abide with Me, and as you
fellowship with Me, your voice will get stronger in the Spirit. It will grow
deeper in the Spirit. It will be a ROAR,” says the Spirit of God. “It will
be a ROAR that thunders from heaven! It will be a ROAR from your inner most
being,” says the Spirit of God.
“And there will be silence at that roar. And there will be fear at that roar.
And there will be a release at that roar of everything that the enemy has stolen
and is holding and is mocking and is intimidating, and is trying to make fun of
you. You will have the last laugh. HA! I’ll divide MY portion with the strong!”
says the Lord. “I divide My portion with the strong! I divide My portion with
the strong, not the weak,” says the Lord. “So as you’re strong in Me, and
you take on that voice, and you take on that confidence, then you will come
forth, and you will take your prey, and you will step on his throat, and he will
gladly give it up, and he will bark away, howling and screaming in the night,”
says the Spirit of God, “because My voice has spoken it, your voice
reverberates it, and the enemy knows it that his day is coming soon, and you
will receive all. All is preserved for you, nothing is destroyed, everything is
in tact, nothing is missing and nothing is broken. And he must release it at the
sound of that roar,” says the Spirit of the Living God
“So Roar! Roar! Roar!” says the Lord. “Wake up from your sleep, O church,
and roar with Me,” says the Lord. “Ha Ha!! WAKE UP FROM YOUR SLEEP, O
CHURCH! It is time to shake it off and roar with Me,” says the Spirit of the
Living God. “For it is kill time in the Spirit. It is time for the hunt. Oh
no! You’re not going to wait for the devil to knock at your door this time!
But you’re going to sneak up on him, and you’re going to surprise him, and
you’re going to paralyze him with your very voice,” says the Spirit of the
Living God. “And he will drop what he’s holding that belongs to you, and he
will be fearful to ever try and pick it up again,” says the Lord. “For I
have desired to put this voice on My people, and I have put it on people
throughout the ages, and they have found success, and they have found victory,
and they have found authority,” says the Spirit of God. “And again I visit
My people, and I will put this voice on the inside of them, and they will find
victory, and they will find authority, and they will find a voice in the Spirit
that the enemy must respect and bow down to,” says the Lord.
“And you are that people if you want to be,” says the Lord. “I have come
for you this very day,” says the Spirit of God. “I have come for you in this
very hour that you might receive My power,” says the Lord. “That you might
receive My voice.
“And after the enemy is paralyzed, he is easy to take down because he belongs
to you; he’s on your turf. For greater is He who is in you than he who is in
the world! And that enemy will bow, and he will fall at YOUR words. At YOUR
words… At YOUR words… At YOUR words… At YOUR words! He will fall at your
words,” says the Lord. “He will fall at your words! He will fall at your
words!
“So, fear not! Fear not, for the voice is upon you! Fear not, for it is as
close as your very breath,” says the Lord. “Fear not! It is coming upon you!”
says the Spirit of God. “It is coming upon you! It belongs to YOU!” says the
Lord. “That roar from heaven that causes the good things of the Spirit to fall
at your feet, that roar from heaven that causes the enemy to flee, that roar
from heaven that lets the devil know you mean business and he shouldn’t mess
with you any more… that’s what I’m giving to you this very hour,” says
the Spirit of the Living God.
“There is a voice,” says the Lord, “there is a voice yet to be heard by
the devil’s group. There is a voice that they think is not in the church,”
says the Lord. “But this voice is going to shock them into reality,” says
the Spirit of God. “And this is the answer for ordaining the homosexual,”
says the Lord. “This the answer for people who peddle pornography on the
internet. This is the answer for those situations that seem so hopeless, that
seem so helpless, that make you feel like, ‘What’s the devil going to do
next? He’s done all these things!’” says the Spirit of God. “This is the
answer for the terrorist onslaught,” says the Spirit of God. “This is the
answer to all those difficult things that puzzle you; that you pray against, but
you know ‘There’s got to be something stronger that we can use, God. There’s
going to be something that’s going to eradicate this, God.’
“This is the answer,” says the Lord. “This is the voice that will crack
the devil’s eardrums. This is the voice that will cause his neck to be stepped
on and broken and he never get up anymore,” says the Spirit of God. “This is
the voice that will cause those that are bound in Islam to be released in mass
numbers,” says the Lord. “This is the answer! This is the voice! This is the
sleeping lion waking up because he is hungry, and he’s going to devour every
wicked enemy and every wicked foe that is trying to take humanity to hell,”
says the Spirit of God.
“This is the voice of the hour. This is the voice you must assume. This is the
voice you must take on to make your victory sure,” says the Spirit of God. “And
go not up not armed! But arm yourself with the roar. Arm yourself with the
confidence. Arm yourself with the power and the strength of the Lion,” says
the Spirit of God. “And all that I give in your hand will remain yours. I give
you a heathen for an inheritance this night,” says the Spirit of God.
“So use this voice. Use this weapon. Use this confidence that I am giving you,”
says the Lord. “And surely you will win and not fail. Surely, you will gain
and not lose. Surely, all will be yours as you walk in this new strength that I
give you,” says the Spirit of the Living God.
“The Holy Roar is the most powerful voice in the universe. The holy roar will
silence every other voice. There is none other like it!” says the Spirit of
God. “Understand that I am giving you a weapon like none other,” says the
Spirit of the Lord. “A weapon that cannot be resisted, a weapon that cannot be
fought, a weapon that cannot be cast down, put down, or run away from,” says
the Spirit of God. “The holy roar will paralyze and throw down every enemy and
every foe,” says the Lord. “Respect this as a weapon. Know it belongs to
you. Embrace it, and understand that this is given to you in this hour to work
in My power,” says the Lord. “Nothing but the greatest power is for My
people. Nothing but the greatest power is for My people,” says the Lord. “The
greatest power! The greatest power! The greatest power! The greatest power!”
“And that voice of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah will bring praise to the
people of God. It will bring water and refreshing to the people of God. It will
be as fresh oil and fresh rain to the people of God,” says the Spirit. “It
will be a refreshing and a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful watering to the
thirsty and to the dry. It will bring life to the barren,” says the Spirit of
God.
“Those who are on the Lord’s side will gain strength! Those who are on the
Lord’s side will prosper! Those who are on the Lord’s side will be wealthy!
Those who are on the Lord’s side will be full of health!
"But it will also unmask the pretender,” says the Lord. “It will also
divide the weak from the strong. It will also divide the religious from the
spiritual,” says the Spirit of God. “This is a voice of unmasking,” says
the Lord. “This is a voice that will tell all,” says the Spirit. “This is
a voice that has a two-edged sword that will pierce asunder in a fine way what
is pure from what is impure,” says the Spirit of God. “And it will divide
the church, but it will be divided between the holy and the profane; those who
are sold out to Me and those who are for self,” says the Lord. “This roar
will cause those who are not of Me to run in fear,” says the Lord. “And they
will either run to repentance, or they will run and join the backsliders,”
says the Spirit of God.
“For this roar will cause such a separation and a division in the hearts of
men, it will uncover things in people’s hearts that they knew not that they
had,” says the Spirit of God. “It will be a revealer and a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the hearts of My people,” says the Lord. “And it
will cause My church to get right, or it will cause them to move on,” says the
Lord. “It will cause a falling away because those who cannot befriend the roar
and embrace the roar will begin to fight it and resist it and will in that way
be cast away,” says the Spirit of God.
“So this roar is a roar of judgment to some, and it is a roar of refreshing
and a roar of peace to others,” says the Spirit of God. “And great
discernment will come as a result of this voice in the Spirit,” says the
Spirit of the Living God. “Great discernment and great wisdom will come to
those who embrace it,” says the Spirit of the Lord.
“So
when this roar comes to you, embrace it, and hang onto it with everything that
is in you,” says the Spirit of God. “Don’t fight the roar. Don’t resist
the voice. When you hear My voice today, don’t harden your heart against it,
but seek to understand it and embrace it and obey it and go with it,” says the
Lord. “And this voice will be the voice that carries you through until My
coming. It will be the weapon that you will use to carry you through until I
return for you,” says the Spirit of God. “For surely, I am coming
again!"
“For surely, I am coming again! But I am coming for a strong, courageous,
victorious, overcoming, overpowering the enemy bride,” says the Spirit of God.
“I am coming for a victorious bride who has the roar that I have,” says the
Lord. “And as we roar together, and we conquer every enemy and every foe that
still remains, then you will bring in the harvest, the great harvest, the great
catch that will break the nets of the fishermen,” says the Spirit of God. “That
great miracle catch will be the last act of the church on this earth. And you
will catch everything with that roar and with that net,” says the Spirit of
God. “Everything that is to be caught and brought to Me will be caught by the
roaring bride,” says the Spirit of God. “The one who is waking up now, the
one who is a sleeping giant in the earth, the one who is shaking herself and
waking herself and causing herself to take on her strength! TAKE ON YOUR
STRENGTH, ZION! TAKE ON YOUR STRENGTH,” saith the Lord. “TAKE ON YOUR
STRENGTH!” saith the Lord.
“Take on your strength, for it is time for the feed. It is time for the hunt.
It is time for the kill. It is time to rejoice. It is time for the marriage
supper of the Lamb,” says the Spirit of God. “It is time. So take on your
strength, Zion. Come with your King. Learn of Me, as you walk in this voice, the
roar of the Lion of Judah,” says the Spirit of the Living God.
The roar of the Lion is a resounding voice that penetrates the heart and shakes
the foundation. When God begins to speak in this voice, it will penetrate the
hearts of His people. It will a drop a plumb-line in the midst of His people. It
will cause those who are with the Lord to get closer to the Lord, and to those
who are on the outside to get farther away. This voice is able to penetrate the
hearts of people and shake their foundations. It will penetrate in such a way
that it will strengthen people; it will be good news to those of us who are
waiting for God to release more power. (We are waiting for God so He can bring
our families together. We’re waiting for God so He can get our kids
straightened up so that they can serve Him and move out in power. We’re
waiting for God to do those things.) So it will be a voice that will shake our
hearts to the good. It will be a voice that will penetrate us, and put strength
in our hearts; we will be lionhearted people, which means we will not be afraid
of anything. We won’t shrink back in the day of battle. We’ll be going
forward and we’ll be running toward the prey because we have a confidence in
our God. And we will know that we know that we know that no weapon that is
formed against us will ever prosper. This is the final voice that we need to
have added to the confession, and the prayer and the anointing, and all of the
things that we do in God.
But there is more to the voice of God that we have not experienced yet because
we can all look around and see that there is still land that we haven’t taken
for God yet. There’s still unfinished business with the devil. Well, this is
the voice that’s going to shake and paralyze and put fear in the heart of the
enemy, and he will DROP what he’s got illegally! He knows it doesn’t belong
to him… he just hasn’t had the right command to make him let it go yet! And
so when God begins to put this on us, the devil will know that he knows that he
knows that he’s got to drop what he’s holding.
It penetrates the heart and it shakes shaky foundations. So everything that can
be shaken shakes with the sound of this voice. This roar will wake up the
sleeping church, and stir the church to be alert. She will shake herself and
rise into her strength. She will be bolder than a lion because she’s in the
realm of the Spirit. She will have more confidence than a lion because she’s
in God, and He is All Confidence!
This voice that is coming to the church… and it’s roaring, it’s thundering
even now in the realm of the Spirit… it’s reverberating in the realm of the
Spirit… it’s coming closer and closer to us in the realm of the Spirit… it’s
saying to us that we don’t have to shrink back in the face of ANY enemy that
would come before us. There are some names still that disturb us and put fear on
the inside of us, and I’m telling you that when those names come to our ears,
you’ll say “NOOOOO! In the name of Jesus!” Those names that used to cause
us to tremble on the inside, you’ll be able to meet it with a voice that will
make that voice bow right there on the spot. And you won’t have to go through
the treatment, and you won’t have to bow to this, and you won’t have to go
through that, and you won’t have to be concerned about that, because that
voice will say, “NOOOOOOOO! I TAKE IT BACK, IN JESUS NAME!” And you won’t
have to listen to the threats of the enemy because you’ll have that on the
inside of you.
That is stored up for you by your Lord. That is stored up for you by the King of
Kings and the Lord of Lords. That is stored up for you by the Living God, and He’s
going to give it to His people.
“It’s available to you even now,” says the Spirit of God. “It is
available,” says the Lord. “The door is open!” says the Spirit of God. “It
is available to you! It is available to you! It is available to you! It’s
available to you, where you can refuse immediately any evil report that comes to
you,” says the Lord. “And you won’t be in denial, and you won’t be in
fear, and you won’t be in presumption, and you won’t be in foolishness,”
says the Spirit of the Lord. “But you’ll be in Me,” says the Lord. “And
I don’t have any sickness, I don’t have any fear, I don’t have any
weakness; I only have strength,” says the Spirit of God. “And when that evil
report comes to you, something will well up in you and say, ‘NO! It is not
mine!’” says the Spirit of God. “And that thing will tremble, and it will
stop in it’s tracks, and it will die on the spot, right in the doctor’s
office,” says the Lord. You will leave every symptom right at the door where
it tried to meet you,” says the Spirit of the Living God. “And you will walk
in My strength, and you’ll walk in My liberty, and you’ll walk in My
authority in a new way,” says the Spirit of the Living God.
The
last thing the roar announces is the risen glory of God, and it announces
changes in times and seasons. That roar has to come to alert every spiritual
being in the realm of the Spirit that the Lord is doing something different now;
that there is a change now. There is coming a changing of the guard in the body
of Christ, a change in the leadership, a change in who’s leading and where
they’re taking the people. God is going to begin to raise up people who are so
dramatically different than what we’ve seen in the past that they’re going
to confound everybody. They’re going to be a puzzle to everybody. The people
that He will raise up in this last hour will be sign and wonder people, where
people will just marvel at them. They’ll just not be able to get over what the
people of God can do. They won’t be cookie-cutter ministries that pattern
themselves after one another, but they’ll all be unique facets of God’s
character. The Lord is going to show off His bride like a beautiful diamond. He’s
going to show off this gift and show off that gift; and let this gift walk in
and be presented to the earth and bless the earth, and she will fade back and
another gift be presented, and come out and bless the earth, and then she will
fade back, and then another gift be presented, and so on… “So the world will
be filled the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the seas,”
says the Spirit of God. “The earth will be filled with the knowledge of My
glory as the waters cover the seas,” says the Spirit of God. “It will be
filled! It will be filled! Everyone will know Me,” says the Lord. “Everyone
will know Me. And there will come a day where it will be known that finally the
gospel has been preached to all people,” says the Spirit of God. “It will be
known that finally the gospel has been preached to all nations. And then the end
shall come. And then the end shall come, and not before,” says the Spirit of
God.
“So understand this new voice. Understand this new prosperity in Me.
Understand this new confidence. Understand your new realm of royalty,” says
the Spirit of the Living God. “That you are My bride, and I am the King of all
kings,” says the Spirit of God. “There is none higher than Me. And I give
you this final strength, this final voice, this final resounding in the Spirit
that you might be all that you’ve ever wanted and needed to be in Me,” says
the Spirit of the Living God.