THE ROAR OF THE LION OF JUDAH
A Weapon Of War For This Hour!

Prophecy given through Barbara A. Williams, August 16, 2003

 

God has been sharing with Me some things that He is going to do in this hour to allow His people to experience a different facet of His character. We are going to experience the Lion of the Tribe of Judah as He begins to roar a very deep roar in the realm of the Spirit; as He begins to speak from His throne things that are going to change the face of nations and change them very quickly because the Lion of the tribe of Judah is hungry. He’s shaking Himself, He’s waking Himself up. He’s stepping into His kingly robes and His kingly position. He is tired of the devil & what He’s been getting away with with people. He’s really tired of the way the devil pushes His people around. He’s tired of His people not really living fully for Him. And we think the Lion’s going to sleep forever, but He will wake up and shake Himself with a roar, “and it will come thundering from the throne of Heaven, and it will resound throughout the realm of the Spirit, and all of the enemies of God will fear and shake and tremble. And all of those who are with God will be strengthened by that sound, and we will be encouraged by that sound, and we will reverberate that sound, and we will pick up that sound throughout the realm of the Spirit,” says the Lord. 

“Oh the roar! The Roar… The Roar… The Roar… The Roooaaarr of the Lion of the tribe of Judah,” says the Spirit of God. “That roar will come into the earth. That roar will be heard. That roar is the roar that will paralyze the enemy. That roar is a roar that will put the enemy to flight. For some of you have wondered, ‘What is going to take, God, for us to be able to win more souls? What is it going to take, God, to bring My children into obedience to you? What is it going to take, God, to make all the enemies that you said had no authority over Me, to really put them under My feet and make them My footstool? What is it going to take, Lord, for Me to have the success and to have the victory that you want Me to have?’” says the Spirit of God. And the Lord says to you, “it’s going to take a different voice, it’s going to take a different sound, it’s going to take a different utterance in the realm of the Spirit,” says the Lord. “It’s going to take the roar that comes from the throne, and the roar that comes from the Lion, and the roar that comes from the Lion who has been asleep because He has been content because YOU have been content,” says the Spirit of the Lord. “But now you are disturbed,” says the Lord. “And now you are waking up, and now you are speaking to Me and you are talking to Me in a way that I can hear and I can understand because many of you see the things of the Spirit that you desire to have, and you know that they belong to you,” says the Spirit of God, “but many of them have eluded you. Oh yes, you have some joy. Oh yes, you have some peace, but you know there is more to this than that,” says the Spirit of God. “You know there is deeper depths in Me. You know there’s more blessing in Me. You know there’s more to Me than the eye can see,” says the Spirit of God. “But somehow you haven’t been able to get quite in there,” says the Spirit. “And you know that the way is not the way that others say that it is,” says the Spirit of God, “because you don’t even believe that if you try those things it’s going to lead to where you need to go,” says the Spirit. 

“So YOU are hungry, and YOU are ravening, and YOU are looking and YOU are seeking,” says the Lord. “You are seeking for more of Me. You are seeking for more of My Power, you are seeking for the opportunity to pounce on that old devil, and FINALLY throw him down, and FINALLY get him under your feet,” says the Spirit of God. “And I have that strength for you,” says the Lord. “I have that ability for you,” says the Spirit of God, “because you HAVE asked the right question, and you DO have the right word on your lips, and you DO want the right things, the things that I’ve promised you, the things that lead to your joy, and your peace, and your contentment on this earth; that lead to your power in ministry, and your power amongst your peers, and your power in your family,” says the Spirit of God. “I have all those things for you, and you’re right to desire them,” says the Spirit of God. 

“But there is one aspect of My character that very few people tap into,” says the Spirit of God. “And that is that roaring sound that thunders in the realm of the Spirit,” says the Lord. “That sound that puts every devil on notice that one of My children is waking up and desiring what belongs to them,” says the Spirit of God. “It is that killer instinct, that ability to know when to pounce and when to crouch and when to swipe and when to grab and when to pull down and throw down your prey, and take everything that he's stolen back from him,” says the Spirit of God. “It is that stealth in the Spirit,” says the Lord. “It is that crouching in the Spirit,” says the Lord. “It is that ability to move swiftly at My unction,” says the Spirit of God. 

“So when you see, and when you hear, and when you know that the prey is approaching, (for the enemy comes as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour, but there is a stronger roar in the Spirit. There is a roar that comes from My throne, and there’s a roar that moves through My people, and there is a roar that thunders from the throne room of heaven. There is a roar yet to given out by My people,” says the Spirit of God. “There is a thundering in the Spirit YET to be given out!” says the Spirit of God. “And it is for those people who are not here to play games. It is for those people who want the real and not the false. It is for those people who are not satisfied in religion, and biding there time ‘until Jesus comes’,” says the Spirit of God. “It is for those people who intend to devour, and intend to grab, and intend to wrestle and be violent for Me until every enemy is made My footstool and your footstool,” says the Spirit of God. )

“For there is a sound coming… there is a sound coming that will make every demon tremble. EVERY demon tremble… even the ones that have made you tremble, THIS roar will make him tremble,” says the Spirit of God. “And I am releasing it to you, and as you know Me, and as you abide with Me, and as you fellowship with Me, your voice will get stronger in the Spirit. It will grow deeper in the Spirit. It will be a ROAR,” says the Spirit of God. “It will be a ROAR that thunders from heaven! It will be a ROAR from your inner most being,” says the Spirit of God. 

“And there will be silence at that roar. And there will be fear at that roar. And there will be a release at that roar of everything that the enemy has stolen and is holding and is mocking and is intimidating, and is trying to make fun of you. You will have the last laugh. HA! I’ll divide MY portion with the strong!” says the Lord. “I divide My portion with the strong! I divide My portion with the strong, not the weak,” says the Lord. “So as you’re strong in Me, and you take on that voice, and you take on that confidence, then you will come forth, and you will take your prey, and you will step on his throat, and he will gladly give it up, and he will bark away, howling and screaming in the night,” says the Spirit of God, “because My voice has spoken it, your voice reverberates it, and the enemy knows it that his day is coming soon, and you will receive all. All is preserved for you, nothing is destroyed, everything is in tact, nothing is missing and nothing is broken. And he must release it at the sound of that roar,” says the Spirit of the Living God

“So Roar! Roar! Roar!” says the Lord. “Wake up from your sleep, O church, and roar with Me,” says the Lord. “Ha Ha!! WAKE UP FROM YOUR SLEEP, O CHURCH! It is time to shake it off and roar with Me,” says the Spirit of the Living God. “For it is kill time in the Spirit. It is time for the hunt. Oh no! You’re not going to wait for the devil to knock at your door this time! But you’re going to sneak up on him, and you’re going to surprise him, and you’re going to paralyze him with your very voice,” says the Spirit of the Living God. “And he will drop what he’s holding that belongs to you, and he will be fearful to ever try and pick it up again,” says the Lord. “For I have desired to put this voice on My people, and I have put it on people throughout the ages, and they have found success, and they have found victory, and they have found authority,” says the Spirit of God. “And again I visit My people, and I will put this voice on the inside of them, and they will find victory, and they will find authority, and they will find a voice in the Spirit that the enemy must respect and bow down to,” says the Lord.

“And you are that people if you want to be,” says the Lord. “I have come for you this very day,” says the Spirit of God. “I have come for you in this very hour that you might receive My power,” says the Lord. “That you might receive My voice. 

“And after the enemy is paralyzed, he is easy to take down because he belongs to you; he’s on your turf. For greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world! And that enemy will bow, and he will fall at YOUR words. At YOUR words… At YOUR words… At YOUR words… At YOUR words! He will fall at your words,” says the Lord. “He will fall at your words! He will fall at your words! 

“So, fear not! Fear not, for the voice is upon you! Fear not, for it is as close as your very breath,” says the Lord. “Fear not! It is coming upon you!” says the Spirit of God. “It is coming upon you! It belongs to YOU!” says the Lord. “That roar from heaven that causes the good things of the Spirit to fall at your feet, that roar from heaven that causes the enemy to flee, that roar from heaven that lets the devil know you mean business and he shouldn’t mess with you any more… that’s what I’m giving to you this very hour,” says the Spirit of the Living God.

“There is a voice,” says the Lord, “there is a voice yet to be heard by the devil’s group. There is a voice that they think is not in the church,” says the Lord. “But this voice is going to shock them into reality,” says the Spirit of God. “And this is the answer for ordaining the homosexual,” says the Lord. “This the answer for people who peddle pornography on the internet. This is the answer for those situations that seem so hopeless, that seem so helpless, that make you feel like, ‘What’s the devil going to do next? He’s done all these things!’” says the Spirit of God. “This is the answer for the terrorist onslaught,” says the Spirit of God. “This is the answer to all those difficult things that puzzle you; that you pray against, but you know ‘There’s got to be something stronger that we can use, God. There’s going to be something that’s going to eradicate this, God.’

“This is the answer,” says the Lord. “This is the voice that will crack the devil’s eardrums. This is the voice that will cause his neck to be stepped on and broken and he never get up anymore,” says the Spirit of God. “This is the voice that will cause those that are bound in Islam to be released in mass numbers,” says the Lord. “This is the answer! This is the voice! This is the sleeping lion waking up because he is hungry, and he’s going to devour every wicked enemy and every wicked foe that is trying to take humanity to hell,” says the Spirit of God. 

“This is the voice of the hour. This is the voice you must assume. This is the voice you must take on to make your victory sure,” says the Spirit of God. “And go not up not armed! But arm yourself with the roar. Arm yourself with the confidence. Arm yourself with the power and the strength of the Lion,” says the Spirit of God. “And all that I give in your hand will remain yours. I give you a heathen for an inheritance this night,” says the Spirit of God. 

“So use this voice. Use this weapon. Use this confidence that I am giving you,” says the Lord. “And surely you will win and not fail. Surely, you will gain and not lose. Surely, all will be yours as you walk in this new strength that I give you,” says the Spirit of the Living God. 

“The Holy Roar is the most powerful voice in the universe. The holy roar will silence every other voice. There is none other like it!” says the Spirit of God. “Understand that I am giving you a weapon like none other,” says the Spirit of the Lord. “A weapon that cannot be resisted, a weapon that cannot be fought, a weapon that cannot be cast down, put down, or run away from,” says the Spirit of God. “The holy roar will paralyze and throw down every enemy and every foe,” says the Lord. “Respect this as a weapon. Know it belongs to you. Embrace it, and understand that this is given to you in this hour to work in My power,” says the Lord. “Nothing but the greatest power is for My people. Nothing but the greatest power is for My people,” says the Lord. “The greatest power! The greatest power! The greatest power! The greatest power!”

“And that voice of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah will bring praise to the people of God. It will bring water and refreshing to the people of God. It will be as fresh oil and fresh rain to the people of God,” says the Spirit. “It will be a refreshing and a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful watering to the thirsty and to the dry. It will bring life to the barren,” says the Spirit of God. 

“Those who are on the Lord’s side will gain strength! Those who are on the Lord’s side will prosper! Those who are on the Lord’s side will be wealthy! Those who are on the Lord’s side will be full of health! 

"But it will also unmask the pretender,” says the Lord. “It will also divide the weak from the strong. It will also divide the religious from the spiritual,” says the Spirit of God. “This is a voice of unmasking,” says the Lord. “This is a voice that will tell all,” says the Spirit. “This is a voice that has a two-edged sword that will pierce asunder in a fine way what is pure from what is impure,” says the Spirit of God. “And it will divide the church, but it will be divided between the holy and the profane; those who are sold out to Me and those who are for self,” says the Lord. “This roar will cause those who are not of Me to run in fear,” says the Lord. “And they will either run to repentance, or they will run and join the backsliders,” says the Spirit of God. 

“For this roar will cause such a separation and a division in the hearts of men, it will uncover things in people’s hearts that they knew not that they had,” says the Spirit of God. “It will be a revealer and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the hearts of My people,” says the Lord. “And it will cause My church to get right, or it will cause them to move on,” says the Lord. “It will cause a falling away because those who cannot befriend the roar and embrace the roar will begin to fight it and resist it and will in that way be cast away,” says the Spirit of God.

“So this roar is a roar of judgment to some, and it is a roar of refreshing and a roar of peace to others,” says the Spirit of God. “And great discernment will come as a result of this voice in the Spirit,” says the Spirit of the Living God. “Great discernment and great wisdom will come to those who embrace it,” says the Spirit of the Lord.

“So when this roar comes to you, embrace it, and hang onto it with everything that is in you,” says the Spirit of God. “Don’t fight the roar. Don’t resist the voice. When you hear My voice today, don’t harden your heart against it, but seek to understand it and embrace it and obey it and go with it,” says the Lord. “And this voice will be the voice that carries you through until My coming. It will be the weapon that you will use to carry you through until I return for you,” says the Spirit of God. “For surely, I am coming again!" 

“For surely, I am coming again! But I am coming for a strong, courageous, victorious, overcoming, overpowering the enemy bride,” says the Spirit of God. “I am coming for a victorious bride who has the roar that I have,” says the Lord. “And as we roar together, and we conquer every enemy and every foe that still remains, then you will bring in the harvest, the great harvest, the great catch that will break the nets of the fishermen,” says the Spirit of God. “That great miracle catch will be the last act of the church on this earth. And you will catch everything with that roar and with that net,” says the Spirit of God. “Everything that is to be caught and brought to Me will be caught by the roaring bride,” says the Spirit of God. “The one who is waking up now, the one who is a sleeping giant in the earth, the one who is shaking herself and waking herself and causing herself to take on her strength! TAKE ON YOUR STRENGTH, ZION! TAKE ON YOUR STRENGTH,” saith the Lord. “TAKE ON YOUR STRENGTH!” saith the Lord. 

“Take on your strength, for it is time for the feed. It is time for the hunt. It is time for the kill. It is time to rejoice. It is time for the marriage supper of the Lamb,” says the Spirit of God. “It is time. So take on your strength, Zion. Come with your King. Learn of Me, as you walk in this voice, the roar of the Lion of Judah,” says the Spirit of the Living God.

The roar of the Lion is a resounding voice that penetrates the heart and shakes the foundation. When God begins to speak in this voice, it will penetrate the hearts of His people. It will a drop a plumb-line in the midst of His people. It will cause those who are with the Lord to get closer to the Lord, and to those who are on the outside to get farther away. This voice is able to penetrate the hearts of people and shake their foundations. It will penetrate in such a way that it will strengthen people; it will be good news to those of us who are waiting for God to release more power. (We are waiting for God so He can bring our families together. We’re waiting for God so He can get our kids straightened up so that they can serve Him and move out in power. We’re waiting for God to do those things.) So it will be a voice that will shake our hearts to the good. It will be a voice that will penetrate us, and put strength in our hearts; we will be lionhearted people, which means we will not be afraid of anything. We won’t shrink back in the day of battle. We’ll be going forward and we’ll be running toward the prey because we have a confidence in our God. And we will know that we know that we know that no weapon that is formed against us will ever prosper. This is the final voice that we need to have added to the confession, and the prayer and the anointing, and all of the things that we do in God. 

But there is more to the voice of God that we have not experienced yet because we can all look around and see that there is still land that we haven’t taken for God yet. There’s still unfinished business with the devil. Well, this is the voice that’s going to shake and paralyze and put fear in the heart of the enemy, and he will DROP what he’s got illegally! He knows it doesn’t belong to him… he just hasn’t had the right command to make him let it go yet! And so when God begins to put this on us, the devil will know that he knows that he knows that he’s got to drop what he’s holding. 

It penetrates the heart and it shakes shaky foundations. So everything that can be shaken shakes with the sound of this voice. This roar will wake up the sleeping church, and stir the church to be alert. She will shake herself and rise into her strength. She will be bolder than a lion because she’s in the realm of the Spirit. She will have more confidence than a lion because she’s in God, and He is All Confidence! 

This voice that is coming to the church… and it’s roaring, it’s thundering even now in the realm of the Spirit… it’s reverberating in the realm of the Spirit… it’s coming closer and closer to us in the realm of the Spirit… it’s saying to us that we don’t have to shrink back in the face of ANY enemy that would come before us. There are some names still that disturb us and put fear on the inside of us, and I’m telling you that when those names come to our ears, you’ll say “NOOOOO! In the name of Jesus!” Those names that used to cause us to tremble on the inside, you’ll be able to meet it with a voice that will make that voice bow right there on the spot. And you won’t have to go through the treatment, and you won’t have to bow to this, and you won’t have to go through that, and you won’t have to be concerned about that, because that voice will say, “NOOOOOOOO! I TAKE IT BACK, IN JESUS NAME!” And you won’t have to listen to the threats of the enemy because you’ll have that on the inside of you. 

That is stored up for you by your Lord. That is stored up for you by the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. That is stored up for you by the Living God, and He’s going to give it to His people. 

“It’s available to you even now,” says the Spirit of God. “It is available,” says the Lord. “The door is open!” says the Spirit of God. “It is available to you! It is available to you! It is available to you! It’s available to you, where you can refuse immediately any evil report that comes to you,” says the Lord. “And you won’t be in denial, and you won’t be in fear, and you won’t be in presumption, and you won’t be in foolishness,” says the Spirit of the Lord. “But you’ll be in Me,” says the Lord. “And I don’t have any sickness, I don’t have any fear, I don’t have any weakness; I only have strength,” says the Spirit of God. “And when that evil report comes to you, something will well up in you and say, ‘NO! It is not mine!’” says the Spirit of God. “And that thing will tremble, and it will stop in it’s tracks, and it will die on the spot, right in the doctor’s office,” says the Lord. You will leave every symptom right at the door where it tried to meet you,” says the Spirit of the Living God. “And you will walk in My strength, and you’ll walk in My liberty, and you’ll walk in My authority in a new way,” says the Spirit of the Living God. 

The last thing the roar announces is the risen glory of God, and it announces changes in times and seasons. That roar has to come to alert every spiritual being in the realm of the Spirit that the Lord is doing something different now; that there is a change now. There is coming a changing of the guard in the body of Christ, a change in the leadership, a change in who’s leading and where they’re taking the people. God is going to begin to raise up people who are so dramatically different than what we’ve seen in the past that they’re going to confound everybody. They’re going to be a puzzle to everybody. The people that He will raise up in this last hour will be sign and wonder people, where people will just marvel at them. They’ll just not be able to get over what the people of God can do. They won’t be cookie-cutter ministries that pattern themselves after one another, but they’ll all be unique facets of God’s character. The Lord is going to show off His bride like a beautiful diamond. He’s going to show off this gift and show off that gift; and let this gift walk in and be presented to the earth and bless the earth, and she will fade back and another gift be presented, and come out and bless the earth, and then she will fade back, and then another gift be presented, and so on… “So the world will be filled the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the seas,” says the Spirit of God. “The earth will be filled with the knowledge of My glory as the waters cover the seas,” says the Spirit of God. “It will be filled! It will be filled! Everyone will know Me,” says the Lord. “Everyone will know Me. And there will come a day where it will be known that finally the gospel has been preached to all people,” says the Spirit of God. “It will be known that finally the gospel has been preached to all nations. And then the end shall come. And then the end shall come, and not before,” says the Spirit of God.

“So understand this new voice. Understand this new prosperity in Me. Understand this new confidence. Understand your new realm of royalty,” says the Spirit of the Living God. “That you are My bride, and I am the King of all kings,” says the Spirit of God. “There is none higher than Me. And I give you this final strength, this final voice, this final resounding in the Spirit that you might be all that you’ve ever wanted and needed to be in Me,” says the Spirit of the Living God.