Prophecies For Canada This Time!, prophetic word, August 24-September 7, 2003
-- Peggy I. Kennedy

Deferred hope has layered our land of Canada...it has affected both churches, ministries, individuals, and our nation collectively. During our walk with other leaders of Watchmen for the Nations this summer on the prophetic journey across the nation, it was apparent to me that a major focus we were to carry personally was the potential of the journey to "scoop off the layers of deferred hope". This potential had been identified by leaders; now we were entering into the assignment.
Upon completion and once home again, we found ourselves deluged both with dismay over things that didn't happen and grief over what would now never be! We were about to enter our 8th year of this mandate of ministry, yet that only brought our agony to sharp focus. Where were the promises? Where was our future? Had we only begun to now come to an abrupt and unfruitful end?
On August 24, we were among worshipers at our home church, Jesus First Ministries, in Brampton, ON. Alfred Flett, an aboriginal minister from Winnipeg was speaking from Deuteronomy 11:8. He reminded us that Joshua had ONCE BEFORE been across the Jordan; he had already been into that land. He had stood one other time at this point at the brink of the river in proximity of the promise. But, he had been turned back and outvoted by the unbelief of others.
At that point he declared: "This time..." Suddenly in my spirit those words reverberated as if a mighty cedar tree had been split open (Ps. 29:5)...in my spirit I knew the force of that declaration: THIS TIME was creating an opening in the heavenlies directly into our nation. I shouted back to Afred, "This time...!" He shouted it back to me...I shouted it back to him...and as he said it one more time, it was now established into both my spirit and into the heavenlies.
The sequel to that moment was on September 7 as we were driving on the #401 to a church to preach...the Lord had instructed me the night before that I was to release that word to the congregation. They actually became as a "press conference" to receive the word into the nation. We had known incredible development in the 14 days since the word was released. Propelled by the declaration we were now positioned in new relationship with Jesus First Ministries as Itinerate Ministers going forth from that house to the nation(s)...and as per the Lord's instruction, our house was on the market to make possible a move to Brampton. Since our home was the prophetic statement in 1999 to the nation: "the glory of the latter house will be greater than the glory of the former..." the Lord had said to STEWARD the glory carefully as we made the move. That a.m. on the freeway He commissioned us: "Not only must you steward the glory, you must CONTEND for the glory." What happened next still amazes me as the most forceful intercessory anointing I have ever experienced descended on us! Under that anointing we CONTENDED for the glory to come forth as promised...into the new SEASON: "THIS TIME..." had opened the heavens and we could now enter in.
THIS TIME...as Moses who had known a 40-year agony of delay, disappointment, temptation to disillusionment, and presumed disqualification arrived to his burning bush, he heard heaven's message: "THIS TIME...!" Joshua now walks under the same declaration as a new generation crosses over to enter in to possess the inheritance. They've now buried the last corpse of unbelief and can lay down their shovel and pick up their sword. The wanderers will become warriors; the sojourners will become soldiers; and the aimless company will become the army of God.
Hearing God declare: "THIS TIME" is very different to hearing Him say, "It is time..." That would speak of a virgin expectation untainted with any previous taste of failure or history of broken expectations. But it's quite different to hear God declare: "THIS TIME..." That word has echoed through the record of scripture: Ask Joseph about it who has endured the betrayal of his brothers, the false accusation and injustice in Potiphar's house, the confinement of his destiny in a prison, and the ungrateful forgetfulness of a fellow prisoner now released. But his moment comes and he hears God say, "THIS TIME"...
Ask David about this. He has already walked in the awe of the anointing and knew the exhilaration of God's victory. But he has been run off from the palace into the wilderness by the insanity of Saul. Would he remain a vessel of the anointing ...a man after God's own heart? Or, would the injustice of the desert contaminate his own spirit?
He has endured the suppression of Saul without forfeiting the purity of his heart. He passed the test...and he hears heaven summon him from caves and desert trails to the throne: "THIS TIME..."
It is my conclusion that we now stand in a new season in Canada; we are called to move forward under the open heaven of this declaration. Will we step with the same energy into territory that we were turned back from before? Will we pursue promises with the same passion? This sound which now reverbates through the open heaven over our land and over our lives will be heard by those whose ears are (1) NOT dulled with disappointment, nor (2) clogged with confusion, nor (3) filled with frustration with God and others. This sound: "THIS TIME... comes with an accompanying grace which will transcend everything that DID happen and will be unstopped by what didn't! Old visions will be stirred up not to mock us but to summon us. Dormant destiny will be re-activated. Promises will be possessed. Potential will be realized. Those things of God's divine desire and purpose will NOW come into place in our lives and over our land: "THIS TIME....!"


Around 1776 this prophecy was given by the Puritan Reformers, when the British Empire Loyalists turned north to settle in Canada in order to remain under British rule. When zealous Americans sought to persecute them because of this decision, the Spirit of the Lord spoke through their prophets saying, "Do not hinder these people. Let them move to Canada. Do not seek to incorporate the land of Canada into America. I am in the independence of America from Britain, and will mightily use this country. But Canad a has been reserved by me for the last days for a special work.."
Could this prophecy, delivered over 200 years ago, be a confirmation of a prophetic word concerning Canada delivered by Dr. David Yonggi Cho, of Seoul, Korea in 1975 and 1984? - James Watt (a Canadian called to call Canadian Christians to intercede for their country)


Dr. Yonggi Cho - Excerpts from messages' given in 1975 and 1984 in Canada.

Evangel Tabernacle, Kelowna, BC, 1975
"When I came to Canada, the Holy Spirit spoke in my heart, 'Son, you have come to the place which I chose. This country is the country I chose to fill the gap.'"
"Being a Canadian is now a welcome hallmark throughout the whole world…You have the welcome open door like the Philadelphia church in Revelation. You have the finances, well-trained personnel, and a good church. God calls you to rise up to meet this challenge before Christ comes. A clear-cut clarion trumpet sound is coming to Canada.Rise up, Canada!..." "God wants your young men and women to rise up and give their lives as living sacrifices. God needs your money, your businesses, your homes, your lives to be dedicated to Him…God is depending upon you….I know that you will do it."

Sackville, Nova Scotia, 1984
At a church growth seminar, Dr. Yonggi Cho reiterated the earlier prophecy, and adding to it: "Five years ago I visited Canada and traveled from Montreal to Vancouver by car. I was preaching from town to town, and while I was speaking I felt somewhat depressed. The Canadian church seemed so small."
"But wherever I went, the Holy spirit spoke in my heart that God was going to raise up tremendous churches in Canada and that Canada would be used as a missionary sending country, and that Canada would open the way for Jesus Christ to return to this earth."
"I was afraid to confess that, but when I was praying….the Spirit of the Lord would impress my heart to say it. I was afraid because I already thought that America was far greater than Canada. If ever God would use a country. He would use America instead of Canada... But again and again God spoke to my heart that He was going to use Canada. So finally in Toronto... I prophesied as the Holy Spirit anointed me. "I really believe that God is going to bless Canada and the Canadian church is going to rise up once again and go to the four corners of the world and bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to pave the way for His second coming."
(The magnitude of recent Canadian missionary and church planting endeavors + the outpouring of the Spirit, which began at the Airport Vineyard and is touching every nation in the world, could represent the beginning of the fulfillment of Dr. Yonggi Cho's prophecies.)


Smith Wigglesworth and Charles S. Price

Though this account cannot be substantiated by documentation, it is relayed by James Watt who was one of the leaders in Latter Rain Revival in North Battleford Saskatchewan, 1948 -1953.
In the 1920's Smith Wigglesworth and Dr. Charles S Price foretold of a significant revival in Northern Canada in the late 40's. They described it as a great wave of blessing that would bring great hope to the world. But because man would introduce a mixture -God in grief would withdraw. The wave would secede, leaving a desert condition for a generation of 50 years. But at the end of the century, another wave would roll in, 10 times more the power and glory of the first. It would continue in blessing until the return of the King!
James Watt can be contacted at www.2rbetter.org.

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