The Jordan is flooding and appears impossible to cross. Now is the time to arise; cry out to God to find the way through. On the third day, the officers instructed the people in the order of the march. Joshua ordered everyone to sanctify themselves. Then the priests, with the Ark on their shoulders, were to go before the people and put their feet in the Jordan. As soon as they put their feet in the water, the river parted and all the people crossed over (Joshua 3). It is a time for unusual faith, a miraculous faith which will part un-crossable rivers. It is a time for BELIEVERS to stand, taking their place in intercession, and shut the mouths of the lions which are roaring at the river’s edge, to keep us from crossing over.

Near the end of March, I heard the Lord say, Mayday, Mayday, Mayday. We have entered a countdown of urgency to break through. Many intercessors and prophetic people have been alerted to this time as one of dire alert. We are in a time when key issues must be broken through on spiritually by May 11, both in our territories as well as the nation. May is a turning month. It is no mistake that Chuck Pierce, Dutch Sheets and Cindy Jacobs will be in Washington DC for a National Day of Prayer Conference taking place over a 3 day period, at the time of the National Day of Prayer. Our nation is hanging in the balance, vacillating between two opinions.

Mayday comes from a French word m’aider which means “Help Me!” The word was always reserved for absolute impending peril because the distress call would come with great risk to the rescuers. The call for help is issued just before a disaster occurs, to summon help. When a sinking ship or troubled airliner calls mayday, it means a crash is imminent. I believe that God is issuing an urgent summons to prayer to intercept the grave plans of the enemy which will cause great distress.

The war in Iraq (which parallels Babylon in Scripture) is a picture of the maze we are in. It is so tangled and messy that many are crying out for retreat. Babylon has a spiritual force that has been loosed to confuse the minds of the righteous, so that tactical strategy is ill advised and ill timed, to bring about defeat. It is at this time that we must see through the confusion (maze) and press into intense worship and intercession which will break us through to the Mind of Christ. Supernatural strategy, strength and breakthrough are within our reach.

We are in a time of vacillation where we are being tempted to back off and take the easy way out, to call a truce because the roar is so loud OUR DISCERNMENT IS MESSED UP. However, May is the time to begin to run with the horses. The horses begin to run in May with the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. God is releasing war horses in the month of May to gallop through this nation starting with Washington DC. We have been in the tangled maze of the jungle haunted by lions nationally, territorially and in many cases personally.

Jer 12:5 Amplified says, “But the Lord rebukes Jeremiah's impatience, saying, ‘If you have raced with men on foot and they have tired you out, then how can you compete with horses? And if you take to flight in a land of peace where you feel secure, then what will you do when you tread the tangled maze of jungle haunted by lions in the swelling and flooding of the Jordan?’”

Not only is God releasing war horses but He is releasing The Man of War. The mightiest race horse in the history of horse racing is Man of War. It is a picture of the LORD who is THE Man of War. One of God’s names is The Man of War. I heard the Lord say that The Man of War would march into Washington DC and be released across the nation from DC. There would come a fresh mantle on the President for righteous war and he would be re-clothed by THE Man of War. It would then begin to charge across the nation. It is no mistake that Earl Pickard is leading a team after May 11 to travel the path of the historic Lewis and Clark expedition. It was in May that new frontiers were opened up through Lewis and Clark.

Ex 15:1-3: THEN MOSES and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord, saying, I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider or its chariot has He thrown into the sea. 2 The Lord is my Strength and my Song, and He has become my Salvation; this is my God, and I will praise Him, my father's God, and I will exalt Him. 3 The Lord is a Man of War; the Lord is His name. AMP

May is the time in the North when we see the shift in the seasons most dramatically. Luke 4:13 speaks about Satan’s response to Jesus’ successful overcoming of temptation in the wilderness. Jesus went into war with the enemy, full of the Spirit. He came out, full of power. Luke 4:13 says that Satan completed a cycle of temptation and stood apart from Jesus until the next favorable and opportune time. (Look in the Amplified Version.) The word favorable and opportune time in the Greek is kairos. Satan’s target points are kairos seasons both in our personal lives as well as in the times of our territories and nation. Kairos times provide windows of opportunity that we must grab when they open. Satan comes in the kairos, opportune time when favor is about to be released, to thwart our overcoming. As a result, breakthrough into our inheritance for the season is thwarted and consequently delayed until a future time, sometimes for many years and even centuries. We must enter this war full of the Spirit so that we can emerge from the war, full of power. Miraculous signs, wonders and miracles are about to be released. But it is contingent on how we respond in this season, while the kairos window of opportunity is open.

In mid April, I met with our pastoral staff concerning setting a time for a 3 day fast. Every one sensed the need for the fast. As we weighed the timing before God, we came to the conclusion that the 3 days leading up to the National Day of Prayer were the critical days we were to target, May 3-5. We needed to breakthrough before the Day of Prayer, so that it would be effective and result in a turning in the nation, a transformation of thought and insight because of a change of mind (Rom 12:1-2. May is critical. I challenge the nation to go on a 3 day fast leading up to the National Day of Prayer. We need to lay down our lives in prayer on behalf of our territories and the nation.

We say a new warring will be released in May which will ride through the nation, overturning the plans and plots of the enemy. RIDE ON MAN OF WAR! We will ride with you! And this warring will cause a new blossoming of the plans and purposes of God, along with a defeating of the enemy’s strategies. RIDE ON INTO VICTORY! We hear the summons of the cry, “MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY.” WE WILL ANSWER IN PRAYER AND FASTING TO TURN OUR NATION.

Lastly, we are entering the 5th month and 5 means grace as well as redemption. Great grace and redemption will be released as we move forward in the purposes of God for this month. One intercessory leader had a dream about going to 5 gates by 5/11. I believe that there may be 5 gates in most cities as well as in each territory and the nation that we are to go to. There are 5 gates of Islam in the city of Detroit. There are 5 Baal altars in the Upper Peninsula. In the 5th month, we deal with the 5’s, going out and crying grace, grace to the mountains. The word mountain in Zech 4:7 means something that looms up. It also means promotion. Grace also means favor. We will receive new favor at the place that looms up over us and will enter into our promotion individually, corporately and as a nation.