CSN - Sunday LightWing Messages - Foundations for God’s Kingdom
3/23/2025
At Mount Sinai
On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt—on that very day—they came to the Desert of Sinai. After they set out from Rephidim, they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain.
Then Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain and said, “This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”
So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all the words the Lord had commanded him to speak. The people all responded together, “We will do everything the Lord has said.” So Moses brought their answer back to the Lord.
The Lord said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.” Then Moses told the Lord what the people had said.
And the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes and be ready by the third day, because on that day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. Put limits for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful that you do not approach the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain is to be put to death. They are to be stoned or shot with arrows; not a hand is to be laid on them. No person or animal shall be permitted to live.’ Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”
After Moses had gone down the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes. Then he said to the people, “Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations.”
On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the Lord descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently. As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him.
The Lord descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up and the Lord said to him, “Go down and warn the people so they do not force their way through to see the Lord and many of them perish. Even the priests, who approach the Lord, must consecrate themselves, or the Lord will break out against them.”
Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, ‘Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’” Exodus 19:1-23 (NIV)
FOUNDER’S MESSAGE:
Moving from the patron saint of Ireland back to the land of ancient Israel could be daunting, but it is important to understand the roots of the Christian faith, and we learned about that when we offered our messages on Esther, who lived around 400 years before Jesus was born. St. Patrick lived around 400 years after the coming of Jesus. Yet, the linkage to Heavenly Father was very real to both of these individuals. One of the biggest differences is that St. Patrick was not in the Bible. It is definitive evidence that God is not limited to the biblical accounts of His existence. It is likely a perception that atheists persist in defending – that God no longer exists, or for heavy duty atheists, He never did. The problem with denial is that anyone can choose to believe what they want to believe. And, so we do, and each represents faith to one degree or another.
The two primary figures that we have focused on this month are Esther and St. Patrick. One is from the Old Testament period and Patrick lived beyond the New Testament biblical times. Yet, both have stories that are extremely powerful. Esther’s courage and faith in God, specifically her willingness to risk her life, was able to save her people from extermination – the Hebrew people who inhabited lands from Africa all the way to India in such a time. Patrick’s courage and faith in God, specifically his willingness to dedicate his life to God and the Irish people, was an effort to save them and save their lives in the Christian understanding of salvation. A comparison of two people of God, from different times and different faith traditions, provides a great representative understanding of how He has been working through time.
How God has been working through time is the story of His providence, which indicates some purpose entwined within human events. The great historian Arnold Toynbee understood that history had a purpose; yet, secular humanist and Marxist historians have very little sense of a purpose at the core of human historical events. Unfortunately, we have been contaminated by the contemporary dominance of the atheists and secular humanists in pumping out an anemic understanding of history with a misdirected focus. Especially young people, who have received this intellectual pollution through the public school system and at the institutions of so-called “higher“ learning, have not developed a substantial understanding of the original purpose of human existence, and if this is the case, neither would they understand the purpose of history.
So, with such a purposeless sense of existence, is it any wonder that the nation and the world is in such a mess?
In Esther’s time, He was able to arrange circumstances through historical events that spared the Jewish people. Why? Was it to actually go through the holocaust under Hitler rather than Haman, to to go through the current war instigated by Hamas? Obviously, later in their history, their plight was not so readily resolved as it was in the time of Esther. Hebrew descendants continue to suffer greatly to this day – even at the hands of anti-Jewish sentiment in the good old United States of America. Christian people also had to go through great suffering for nearly 400 years under the tyrannical boot of the Roman Empire, just as the Hebrew people had spent a similar period of time in slavery in Egypt before they trusted in Moses’ leadership and could move out of the realm of Egyptian slavery. The question that many people have a hard time to answer is: Why would a loving God allow so much suffering? It is a disingenuous question, and one that I believe is irresponsible. We do not invite God into all of our realms of life, and then we blame Him for the corruption and suffering in those realms? The honest question, whether one is an atheist or a believer, is why would human beings accept or allow so much suffering?
It is highly ironic that an atheist would ask a question about God allowing suffering if they have no belief in God. However, when God provides the guidelines or “rules for living,” and people break them, do we who break the Ten Commandments, or Jesus’ guidance, expect that we are to be exonerated, without any penalty, for our wrongdoing? Is not a criminal who breaks the law (in a normal society where laws are obeyed) one who needs to suffer the consequences for the violation? Is there not some penalty required in a just society for those who broke the law? U.S. citizens are only beginning to see the consequences of allowing criminals to command America, but this nation, which was founded upon the Judeo-Christian principles should serve as a basis for why bad things happen to seemingly good people. It should be fairly obvious that one of the original goals of Heavenly providence would be to establish a just society based upon laws and civil obedience aligned with such laws. Was that not what God was trying to establish through a man called Moses with the Ten Commandments? Was that not what God was trying to establish through Jesus as he came proclaiming the Kingdom of God on Earth? A just society is one main purpose of the providence. How serious are we to seek His Kingdom and His righteousness?
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Seeding a Holy Nation
By Maria T. Tonello of Strike Force of Prayer - March 2025
“Lord, God of Israel, enthroned on the cherubim! You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. It is You who made the heavens and the earth.” 2 Kings 19:15
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One role of the Intercessor is to seed God’s Word for the future; to release His Word as seeds scattered far and wide, as the promises of His Holy future, a Holy Nation on earth as it is in Heaven. We water these seeds with our faith-filled proclamations, praise and thanksgiving. The Hebrew word for holiness is “hagiasmos” and means “sanctification”. A Holy Nation is sanctified, marked and set aside as God’s own. It is a people of God fully walking as Christ on earth, sons and daughters of the Most High God.1
We seed God’s Word as the promises for a Holy Nation unto the Lord God.
Intercessors as Planters of the Word of GOD
We proclaim God’s Word as the seeds of His Holy Will on earth, for earth, as His Kingdom come, the restoration of Eden.
It is the Truth of God’s Divine Will. “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.” John 14:6
It brings God’s Word into this world. God has always needed His intercessors to be His ‘boots on the ground’, to execute His will.
“Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done.” Matthew 6:10
See the end of this handout for Prophet Bob Jone’s 100-year prophecy, 2020’s and beyond.
WE PROCLAIM the Word of God to seed a Holy Nation unto the Lord God, His Kingdom Come on earth.
We Pray….
Dear Heavenly Father, Abba, we declare the end from the beginning as Isaiah 46:10 declares, that Your purpose (counsel, plan) will be established, and You will accomplish all Your good pleasure. And so it shall be in the seeding and unfolding of Your Holy Nation, a restoration of ALL of earth to Eden. We thank You for the pictures and promises You have provided us throughout Your Word, that give us glimpses of this glorious time on earth.
After Justice Comes the Birth of a Holy Nation
Dear Father God, Abba, we see from Your Word that after your time of justice, comes the fulfillment of your promise for a new Eden, a Holy Nation unto You, Lord God.
For Isaiah 51:1 & 3 declares: “Listen to me, you who pursue justice, who seek the Lord; look to the rock from which you were hewn, to the quarry from which you were taken….Yes, the Lord shall comfort Zion, shall comfort all her ruins; her wilderness he shall make like Eden, her wasteland like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of song.”
So we rejoice and give thanks Abba Father! For the coming of your new Eden on earth, the restoration of your divine blueprint for your creation, for your people on earth to be walking as sons and daughters of God.
Heavenly Father, I take heart, hope and confidence in Your promise in Isaiah 51:7 & 8, that a holy generation follows your justice, which is a purification of all that is not holy: "Hear me, you who know justice, you people who have my teaching at heart… my victory shall remain forever, my salvation, for all generations.”
Like the Garden of Eden
Heavenly Father, we proclaim Your Word in Revelation 1:6, that “Who has made us into a kingdom, priests for his God and Father,” is the promise of a Holy Nation, your priests on earth, upholding your heart and ways as the natural way of life for humanity.
Abba Father, we take hold of Ezekiel 36:33-35 as a vision of the renewed and reborn earth, and release it for fruition: “Thus says the Lord God: When I cleanse you of all your guilt, I will resettle the cities and the ruins will be rebuilt. The desolate land will be tilled—once a wasteland in the eyes of every passerby. They will say, 'This once desolate land has become like the garden of Eden. The cities once ruined, laid waste and destroyed, are now resettled and fortified.’”
Our Bodies Shall Be Glorified
Heavenly Father, walking and living as sons and daughters of God, we walk as Christ and fulfill the promise of Jesus’ transfiguration on Mount Tabor in front of His Apostles Peter, John and James; the event that prefigured our own transfiguration.
We thank you Lord God, for fulfilling the promises of Philippians 3:21, that You will change our lowly body to conform with Christ’s glorified body by the power that enables him also to bring all things into subjection to himself.
I enjoin with Isaiah 61:10 in proclaiming: “I will rejoice heartily in the Lord, my being exults in my God; for he has clothed me with garments of salvation, and wrapped me in a robe of justice, like a bridegroom adorned with a diadem, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
The Land Before It Is Like the Garden of Eden
Dear Abba Father, how profound that throughout Your Word — from the Torah to the Prophets to the Gospel, You provided us a vision and hope that this ravaged world would one day return to Your original divine blueprint — a whole people of Your own heart.
We proclaim Joel 2:3 that, “The land before it is like the garden of Eden.” If it were not so, You would not have placed it throughout Your holy history in our Sacred Scriptures, for us in this specific moment, to stand in the gap planting Your promises in this time and this space, to bring about the new earth as a Holy Nation.
The Citizens of This Holy Nation
Dear Abba, a Holy Nation is comprised of holy people; and so we seed this holy population with Your Word, proclaiming Philippians 3:20: “But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we also await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Heavenly Father, we declare Isaiah 61:3-5, that the citizens of our Holy Nation will “be called oaks of justice, the planting of the Lord to show his glory. They shall rebuild the ancient ruins, the former wastes they shall raise up and restore the desolate cities, devastations of generation upon generation.”
Living AS God’s Divine Will
Lord God Abba, as a Holy Nation, all people will walk not just in Your Will, but shall be living AS Your Divine Will. What a glorious experience! A people that truly knows how to love! Every soul consciously conceived by parents that are one with You God. Every husband and wife one with God and each other, living fully attuned to Your Heart and destiny for their lives, their children and their union.
Heavenly Father, we proclaim Deuteronomy 28:9: “The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.”
For Exodus 19:5-6 promises: “Now, if you obey me completely and keep my covenant, you will be my treasured possession among all peoples, though all the earth is mine. You will be to me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.”
“A kingdom of priests” — what a picture! Priests are those who shepherd the culture of holiness, the ways of Your Heart, who perform rituals to renew and strengthen our bond with You, those who serve You.
Indeed Isaiah 61:6 prophecies: “You yourselves shall be called ‘Priests of the Lord’, ‘Ministers of our God’ you shall be called.”
And 700 years later, Saint Peter the Apostle pronounces in 1 Peter 2:9: “But you are ‘a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises’ of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”
A Beautiful Vision of Our Holy Nation
Heavenly Father, we declare the glorious order of life that is the foundation of our Holy Nation; that every soul will knows its destiny before it is even born into this world; that every mama and father will also know and raise their children accordingly; that all vocations are in service and glory to You, God our Father; that we are walking, loving and living in the fullness of Christ Jesus, truly embodying being his brothers and sisters.
Abba Father, we seed Your promise of a Holy Nation with Revelations 21:23-27: “As the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp, the nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
SEALING PRAYER:
“Then I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth’, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Look! God’s dwelling place is now amongst the people, and He will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.’ He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’” Revelations 21:1-5 ~~~~
Bob Jones 100-Year Prophecy
“The 2020s will reveal the Rest of God. To where the body will come into a place of resting in God, where God will rest in us. And in this rest, the enemy will not be able to do warfare because we are resting in God, and He is resting in us, and He will accomplish the things He means to do in a people that is at rest. He has always wanted a people that will come into His rest. There never has been one, but rest is on the way.
“The 2030s will reveal the Family of God. There will be such a Unity that if you pick on one, you pick on all. And intercession, where If you are picking on one, intercessors immediately all over will come right in. It’s a family.
"The 2040s will reveal the coming forth of the Kingdom of God. Kingdom authority, kingdom sons; sons of the kingdom.
“The 2050s will reveal the Sons of God. They will grow into a place where they will have a *** and a likeness of the Son of God.
“I saw up to the 2060s. and the church here was not beat down. It was walking in the Glory of God. It had the Power of God on it. It had the power over death. It had the power over the weather. It had the power over everything.”
Maria T. Tonello has been teaching, leading and supporting prayer intercessors nationally and internationally for the past several years. The prayer protocols in this book series come from that ministry and have many testimonials testifying to their transformational effects.
Maria has been a management consultant, corporate trainer, public speaker, teacher and personal advisor in life and career transitions. She holds two Masters of Science degrees, an M.S. in O.D. (Applied Behavioral Sciences) and an M.S. in Psychology; but considers her most valuable education learning to listen to, heed and serve the Father’s heart.
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