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{{opinionarticle}} {{box | text=An anonymous opinion article}} '''The Iowa Alliance for Reformation''' has emerged under God’s divine direction to release [[Revelation_%28EBD%29 | revelationRevelation]] into the state of [[Iowa]] and bring [[reformation]] into the church. This alliance exists to release [[Revelation_%28EBD%29 | revelationRevelation]] into the state, encourage existing leaders to pursue [[Revelation_%28EBD%29 | Revelation]], and to cause the [[Body of Christ]] of [[Iowa]] to hunger for greater encounters with [[God]].
==The Iowa Band: Iowa is the Key to United States Freedom==
As they started this alliance they had no idea they would be fulfilling a 150 year old mandate [[God]] had given to a group called the Iowa Band. They recently found out the rich deep spiritual heritage of [[Iowa]] and God's desire for this state to lead the nation into encounters with Him. Twelve men came to [[Iowa]] to bring [[reformation]] into the new territory opening up in the 1840’s. Of the 12 only 5 truly felt a mandate to see change occur. These five started out from a Bible college in SE Iowa. The original men had a prophetic word in 1842 from [[Lyman Beecher]], Father of the [[Second Great Awakening]], at [[Charles Finney]]’s church in [[Oberlin%2C_Ohio | Oberlin, Ohio]]. That word proclaimed that Iowa was the key to the
[[United States]] freedom and future of the next generation of leaders to change the world. [[Iowa]] was known as a place of
==Reformation is Returning to Iowa!==
They also found out the great parallels they are also reliving. They also had 5 men start the '''Iowa Alliance for Reformation''' and now 2 remain to continue. They started from Jubilee School of Ministry in [[Fairfield%2C_Iowa | Fairfield, SE Iowa]]. They were given a 1900 Tent stake as a prophetic act by their Bible students to make covenants with the land by staking it were they go. Apostle Greg Crawford, the one who stated the Alliance, was recently in [[Oberlin%2C_Ohio | Oberlin, Ohio]] to do a conference and found out this was the place of [[Charles Finney]]’s church. When he visited the church and as he stood behind [[Charles Finney]]’s pulpit, God dropped things about reformation into his spirit concerning [[Iowa]]. These are only a few parallels that have supernaturally occurred.
The question now before the state is will we miss the next move of [[God]] because of our complacency, just like the past?
The Iowa band came with the mandate of Is. 25.6-7, and Is. 2.2-3:
It is Iowa’s destiny to be a mountain for God. The church broke the covenant and mandate with God 150 years ago. Now it is being restored for such a time as this.
[[Iowa]] is a [[Jericho]]; it must fall first for the rest of the nation to fall to God’s purpose once again. The restoration of 5 fold function will appear in fullness in [[Iowa]].
[[Iowa]] is a [[Revelation_%28EBD%29 | revelatory]] state, It will export [[Revelation_%28EBD%29 | revelation]] to the nation and the nations to bring change.
[[Iowa]] is an [[apostolic church | apostolic state]] that will loose strategy and the sound of heaven to the nation. The Next [[Great awakening]] would come out and be birthed in [[Iowa]]
This very word should be treated as holy!
* HE said, “I'M taking back MY earth!” Iowa … “And I'M going to arouse, from here, the sleep. [[Revelation_%28EBD%29 | Revelation]] is gonna' flow out of [[Iowa]] that awakens people in the nation and the nations of the earth. It's MY covenantal heartland.”
* “From Iowa, I want to feed the nations of the earth, and not just physical food, but the Bread of Heaven! I want you to glean, from the four corners --- and then the center --- of this state, the wealth of Heaven! And I want you to export it to the nations, so I can awaken a people! So I can bring forth MY Covenant! So I can bring Jubilee into the Land and let the oppressed go free --- to set at liberty the broken and the bruised. I want to restore! I want to let the captives go free! I want somebody to run throughout the land and say, ‘FREEDOM! LIBERTY !'” Ring the bell of freedom.
And right then, the full anointing shall break forth from the plains of Iowa . The fire of MY Spirit is going to begin to burn through the dross, to colorize wounds and heal [the hurts]. It's going to heal, not only physical and emotional wounds, but the Body of Christ is going to be healed in [awesome] ways… There is coming a Spirit of healing, harmony, and unity that is going to be by the fire of MY Spirit, because I AM no longer going to be persuasive and speaking in ways that try to woo MY people into this, but,” the LORD says, “I AM coming with a Holy Fire that is going to literally burn down walls that have separated and divided! And I AM coming with Holy Fire and passion [to] break into MY Church, even in places that they have not asked ME to. I'M going to do it anyway. I'M gonna move in and crash through walls and barriers. I'M going to lift fatigue and weariness off of MY people. MY leaders are going to be filled with fresh zeal, fresh fire, and fresh oil from MY Spirit.”
==REFERENCESReferences==
The Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association:
ANNALS OF IOWA Vol. XII Iowa City, April, 1920 No. 4, The Iowa Band, Ephraim Adams, 1870
*[http://www.jiministrybase.com/alliance.htm Iowa Alliance For Reformation]
All text taken from the above sites used by express permission of the authors.