The Western Highway - Stone Request

Dear Children of God in the Americas,

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 

We approach you in your capacity as His chosen generation and His royal priesthood (1 Pe 2:9) in your nation.

We are asking you humbly to allow us to submit the vision the Lord has given us to you and to ask you to enquire of the Holy Spirit if you have a role to play in this prayer action. 

The Western Highway

On July 17, 2009 a small prayer team including myself and some friends, will start a journey at the furthest westernmost tip of Alaska. From there we intend to travel overland along the entire west coast of North Central and South America to Cape Horn in 50 days. From South America we will fly to Spain and after a break resume from there along the north coast of Africa all the way to Jerusalem. 

The purpose is to claim every place we set our feet for the Kingdom of God, and to put our voice with that of creation that “waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed” (Rom 8:19).

Prophetic Stone Collection

As a prophetic action to symbolise that all of creation in the Americas is yearning for the sons of God to be revealed we would like to collect stones from every country and region along the way and present these to the Lord on Mount Zion in Jerusalem at the end of the journey. 

Submitting to you (1Pe 5:5)

We recognise you, the Body of Messiah in the Americas, as the priests He has anointed and empowered as stewards of that continent. We would therefore like to ask you to consider this vision before the Lord. If you find that we need correction, we ask you to help us in this way. If you find that the Spirit witnesses to you that this vision is consistent with the will of God, we ask that you would help us as He leads in one of the following ways:

1. If you are on the West Coast we would like to visit you to ask you personally for a stone from your region and ask you to pray for us along the way. We would also like to ask you to send a message from your “end of the earth” to Zion to testify of Isa 49:6 and confirm Isa 62:11.

2. If you are not on the West Coast we would like to ask you to mail a little stone from your State, Province or Territory to points (stone stations) along our route in order for us to be able to pick them up when we pass there. In this way your state/province/territory can be represented among the stones that are brought to Mount Zion at the end of the Western Highway.

3. If you know people in other areas that you feel should be involved, would you let us have their contact details?

4. If you feel called to pray for us during the journey we could put you on our bulk-text system that would deliver text-messages to your mobile phone daily as the journey progresses.

5. Help us, please! We are very small and we stand in awe of this task that lies before us. We need help in almost every way. We look to our Heavenly Father to meet our every need, and we trust you, His Body in America, to help us see His Face!

We are eagerly looking forward to hearing from you!

Blessings!

Contact Information

Johanna (Jansie) Fourie - Cell: +27 82 5298668 - Email: jansiefourie@yahoo.com

Blog: http://7highways.blogspot.com/ - Address: PO Box 32289, Totiusdal, 0134 South Africa

Thank You

The main feedback meeting was held on 14 September at my home in Pretoria. Thank you to all who could come, especially those who came from far like Thabiso and Malefa from Lesotho. I could only show 300 of the 3000 pictures I took, so if you would like to see any of the others I would be happy to show them to you. I'm planning to visit Cape Town before the end of the month and hope to give some feedback there too.

Thank you so much for all the prayers and support! May the Lord's revealed face be the blessing you find!

Feedback

I'm in Israel until 11 September after which I will be returning to South Africa. Feedback meeting dates will finalised when I'm back in SA, but I hope to give feedback before the end of the month. If you would like to receive the full report or if you have comments, questions or suggestions regarding this Highway or the West in 2009 and the East in 2010 please tell me by email to jansiefourie@yahoo.com.

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2008-08-30 15:36:40.0

It is done! PRAISE GOD!The stones from the Northern Highway
cried to Him from Mnt Zion at dawn.Thanx for praying!May
God Bless you abundantly.All my love.Ps34!J

2008-08-30 15:39:42 Come home safely. We are proude of what God has done by your hand. Have rest. We love you!! Errol

2008-08-28 15:02:37 Ek is so trots op jou. -André

30/8 Day 40 Mnt Zion

We made an appointment with Pieter and Liesl to meet at Zion Gate in the old City of Jerusalem at 6am. To be there on time we had to start walking at 5:30 but for some reason I had set my alarm for 5:30 so when D found that I had overslept I only had time to put my clothes of the previous day on and run.

So with the dust of the highway still on me we met Pieter, Liesl, their baby Ania and Johanna, a German staff member of JHOPFAN. We went to the place outside Zion Gate near the Upper Room where the African stones were left in 2005 and we laid out a map of the two Northern Highways with the stones from the different countries on it. I then read the various scriptures the Lord had given since the start of the Highway and proclaimed that the highways of the North are claimed for the Kingdom of God. We then interceded on behalf of creation for the revelation of the sons of God in every nation along the way and presented the stones collected along the way to the Lord in a prophetic action saying that "creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed" (Rom 8:19-21). We also bought the message from the people at the end of the world to Zion that her salvation is coming (Isa 62:11). Then we took communion and put the stones with the
stones from Africa. We blew the shofar three times to say that it is done. The church bells then chimed 7.

From Mnt Zion Denise and I went to the Holy Sepulcer where we read Revelations with great joy. We returned to Susan's appartment where we had a relaxed lunch. At 4pm Mac McCoy from the USA whom I knew from my time in Jerusalem in 2004 came to see Susan. I shared with him about what I had done and about the next Highway in the West. He immediately suggested various conacts in the United States. I felt as if I was falling into the next Highway before the sunhad set on this one.

At around 5pm D and I went to Damaskus Gate where we read Revelations to the North as the sun set on the 40th day of the Northern Highway.

29/8 Day 39 Haifa – Jerusalem

D and I took it easy over breakfast and took a lot of time to testify of all the wonderfull things the Lord has done sofar. We finally left the house around noon to go to the shops for a map and some other things needed for the closing on Mnt Zion.

We found a place on the ridge o Mnt Carmel where we prayed over the north of Israel. We had a good view over the way the old Highway to Lebanon went allong the beach.

From Haifa we got the bus to Jerusalem and found our way to Susans apparment. She met us there and we went for dinner at an Italian restaurant. We had a beautiful evening of sharing again.

28/8 Day 38 Jordan – North Israel

I got up early to read revelations, shower and find my way to the Trustb Bus by 8:30. The bus went to the northern border crossing into Israel. I bought a ticket to Nazareth.

I was delighted to find the faith in my heart not to be angsious about the Israel border crossing. Previous experience told me that these crossings could involve up to 3 hours of interaction with security and immigration officers. One of the YWAMers I met in Jordan was also denied entry to Israel earlier this year without ny explanation.

But the Lord said it would be fine, and as he said, so He did. I went through the whole process in less than 5 minutes. I could bearly believe it. In the bus to Nazareth I felt the Lord's presence as the Lion of Judah.

I baught lunch in Nazareth and then I got the bus to Haifa where I met Denise. Together we went to the north western corner of Israel about 50 kilometers north of Haifa. There we prayed at grottos where the see and the land meet in thunder. I was so blessed to be able to tell the Gospel to Lebanon too, and I had the impression that there were hundreds of people peering through the fence trying to give me stones. It was as if the church and the land of Lebanon was saying: if taking the stones to Zion is what it will to take to see the revelation of the sons of God, then all of Lebanon wants to come. I felt like I could see Lebanon leaning over to Israel like a wave of land.

We had a few miracles on our way back to Haifa because we missed the last bus.