michael carr // fresh is the key

I wanted to learn more about this place called the “historic triangle” that is the setting for this weekend’s Blaze Manifesto. It appears that this land took a significant role the birth of America (and some even call it the “womb of America”). With a little research I am struck by a few key tid-bits:

The Historic Triangle gave birth to the United States, and a huge nation grew from a tiny place in Virginia. In that same tiny place, Europeans, American Indians, and Africans first lived together and became the seed of the American people. Taken from www.historictriangle.com.

Take a read in that article! It’s incredible, not only was the nation literally birthed in these cities but the first governmental injustices started here. (Slavery, Displacement of American Indians, etc.)

Europeans, American Indians and Africans met each other here. It was not an equal meeting. Europeans enslaved Africans and killed and displaced Indians. Four hundred years later, we are still trying to deal with the results of all that began in the Historic Triangle. Taken from www.historictriangle.com.

God is serious about justice. He really wants to wash us from the inside out. His jealousy for the littlest part of our hearts is why these 3 cities matter. It’s why solemn assemblies matter, it’s why we pray and it’s why we fast.

“The Historic Triangle is located on the Virginia Peninsula of the United States and includes the colonial communities of Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, and Yorktown…” Taken from Wikipedia

• Jamestown: The first permanent English settlement in the New World was established at Jamestown in 1607.
• Williamsburg: In 1699, the capital of Virginia was moved from Jamestown to a location on high ground at Middle Plantation at the suggestion of students from the College of William and Mary, which had been established there in 1693. Middle Plantation was soon renamed Williamsburg, in honor of King William III, and it was a busy place until the American Revolution.
• Yorktown: The third point of the triangle is Yorktown where General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington in 1781, ending the American Revolution.

What if the Lord is carrying a battle plan to take the heart of America and call forth life from the barren womb of our nation?

Part of the vision for this particular assignment (Blaze Manifesto vision) is answering a cry, “‘we have been waiting for someone to release the sound in the historic triangle.‘”

What sound is this but the sound of the Sons and Daughters crying for mercy & justice? I believe the Lord is again firing the cannons of heaven into the heart of America through worship & intercession through His bride.
We’ve seen it in DC through The Call, Bound4Life, and many other gatherings, where the Lord is pouring out divine strategy to take the nation with righteousness.

As the Church of Christ we can’t let ourselves be pulled side to side by the strings of political rhetoric or the waves of media. We have to stand as best we know in the authority of Christ as sons and daughters, contending for the breakthrough in the heavens.