Something is shifting over Japan. During the praise on Sunday (at Sano church), it seemed like there was a whole new attitude of faith, victory, and breakthrough. I sensed an opening in the heavens that I've never felt before in Japan. Later that day I received a prophecy from Mark Gulland reaffirming and restating the same things I'd sensed that morning.

In the service I talked about the 20 purposes of prophecy (the message was split between Sano and Ikeda). Then our prophetic teams and I prophesied to about 100 people in the service. Later that day we prophesied to about 150 more. Most of those were by tape to people who had called or emailed us to register. We lined up rows of tapes with their "name tags" and just prophesied and prophesied! I really felt we were releasing the "spoken word" of the Lord into the atmosphere.

The next day at Ikeda was similar, and the afternoon meeting was really outstanding. Through the joyful, spontaneous praise, God demonstrated how to break the religious/controlling spirit off the church. It was really powerful.

Something is truly shifting over Japan. I prophesy harvest this year!

Blessings.

Ron Sawka.