Word for Timor-Leste
by Jennifer Choi, October 2023
“The Spirit of the Lord says to Timor-Leste:
Indeed, the days of your birth marked by great pain and bloodshed are over. You have transitioned from traumatic birth pains to growth pains: I set before you a season of growth and development that your land has awaited centuries for.
I will exercise my creative power upon your people, even changing the genetic make up of the many tribes and tongues present in your land. This will be the sign of the shifting of minds and attitudes in the nation, as my TRUTH continues to transform and renew the minds of my people. As the Timorese people think and believe, so they shall become, even physically. I require my people (Christians) in Timor-Leste to be the purveyors of new identities, and new mindsets - you are to speak of the Timorese as they will become in the future, in the way I called Simon to be Peter 'the rock'. Speak of the 'new' Timorese people, from the pulpits, halls of power and in places of meeting.
For I will lengthen the life spans of the Timorese people - there is an anointing for health and physical transformation that I am pouring out over this people, to remove the results of centuries of colonial domination and oppression off of you - body, soul and spirit. While many Spirit-filled Christians have ministered to break off generational curses in the spiritual sense, now you will also break off the physical effects of generational curses - and these results will be visible and tangible. Timorese people - you will not be called the small, fragile peoples of a small island isolated by the oceans, but you will be called the strong, sturdy ones of the hills and mountains, tribes of the hill country.
Even the new sources of your livelihoods will be found in the elevated areas of the hills - I will bless the hills and valleys of Timor-Leste to produce crops and resources throughout the year. Turn your gaze from the flatlands and coastal areas to find/see the treasures that I hide in the hills. For I am a God not bound by human knowledge or logic - I will place my blessings of fruitfulness where I choose to place them. Do not let the plans of the government or international funders dictate your development plan - but let investments be made in the highland areas.
Over the next 20 years I charge my churches in Timor-Leste to take authority over the spheres of national leadership (public service) and the economy. You are to cultivate leaders who know how to love their flock and shepherd their people, like my servant David. You are to produce a generation of worshipers who encounter my holiness and know how to dwell in my presence - worshipers with a burning heart for Me and my people will be elevated into positions of leadership and in public service. My churches are also to battle against and overcome perverse economic structures fueled by greed that have led the development of the nation over the past 20 years - and to build an alternative, Kingdom economy. You are to connect with business leaders (existing) and raise up (new) businesses and business leaders who will create organisations, systems and ways of operating that are clearly set apart and strange to those who are operating in the flesh. Kingdom businesses are to supply not only the needs of the Timorese people, but also to resource other nations and peoples.
Stay awake and do not partner with the spirits of false contentment that will say to you that 'you've already come far enough' and that 'things are already better than they were before.' Partner with MY SPIRIT as I lead you into successive seasons and phases of increase, one after another, then another. Resist the temptation to settle with the 'good enough', for that is not the reason why I have brought you out of colonial subjugation and birthed you into a national destiny. Timor-Leste, embrace your mandate to be a convenor of the nations, for I use the small and foolish things of the world to confound the wise, the weak things to shame the strong (1 Cor 1:27).”