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Hallelujah Hollywood

Posted on by Dr. Meri Crouley

Hollywood is being transformed!  There is a movement going on in this city and people are starting to notice.  There have been many movies throughout the years which Hollywood has produced and have changed the world.  Hollywood originally had produced many biblical epics which revolutionized a culture.  But throughout the years there has been a degeneration in the films which were produced.  But now that is starting to change and people are beginning to notice.

A few months ago I went  to Hollywood, California for an event which was called “Hallelujah Hollywood”.  Trinity Broadcasting Network was sponsoring an event and invited Arthur Blessitt to come and share his story.  There were thousands which showed up and I did a short documentary which you can watch on my website under the name “Hallelujah Hollywood”.  I interviewed several people on Hollywood Blvd. and also starting following Arthur Blessitt as he carried the cross from Hollywood High School to the famous intersection of Hollywood and Vine.  Arthur Blessitt had come back to the exact location where he had started carrying the cross around the world 45 years ago.  Here is part of his story.

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Arthur Blessit Carrying his Cross

In the late 1960’s Blessitt began evangelizing to the youth of Hollywood, California.  There he became known as the “Minister of Sunset Strip.”  Blessitt preached to hippies, Hells Angels, runaways, drug addicts, teen prostitutes, flower children, would-be actors, and rock stars.  In March 1968, he opened a coffee house called “His Place” in a rented building next door to a topless go-go club.  It was there that he first made a big cross to hang on the wall of the building on the inside.  He started carrying the cross on Sunset Strip from time to time.

On Christmas morning in 1969, Blessitt began his journey with the cross, walking from Los Angeles (starting on Hollywood Blvd.) to Washington, DC.   In August 1971, Blessitt made his first overseas crosswalk beginning in Northern Ireland.    He has carried the cross to all parts of the world including war-torn countries such as Lebanon and parts of Africa to pray for peace.  During the Cold War, Blessitt carried his cross into the Soviet Union, through Russia, the Baltic States, Ukraine and other countries.  He has carried the cross through such places as Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, China, South Africa, Lebanon, India, Antarctica, Palestine, Israel, Cuba, Libya, Yemen, Vietnam and Mongolia.

Arthur-now“The Pilgrim with the Cross”

In total, Blessitt has walked over 40,000 miles through 321 countries, of which 54 were in open war.  He has crossed every ocean and walked on all seven continents.  He is known internationally as the “Pilgrim with the Cross.”

In the Bible, Luke 9:23 states, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”  Arthur has literally done that and affected the entire world.  There was a 2009 documentary feature called, “The Cross:  The Arthur Blessitt Story” which was directed by Matthew Crouch and premiered at the famous Grauman’s Chinese Cinema on Hollywood Blvd.  I was there for this premiere a few years ago and actually interviewed people on the red carpet.

There are many people who God has inspired to start making movies about God’s kingdom.  I am in development on a major motion picture about the Jesus Movement and Lonnie Frisbee.  Lonnie Frisbee was a young hippie who was used by God in the late sixties to be the catalyst for the Jesus Movement.  It’s an inspirational story which I believe will change people’s lives.

TheBible_EpicMiniseries_DVDThis History Channel started showing the epic five part mini-series called “The Bible” produced by Mark Burnett and his wife, actress Roma Downey.  The first night of showing “The Bible” mini-series there were over 12 million viewers.  It actually beat out American Idol.  This has taken Hollywood by surprise and there are many studios now coming out with Biblical epics.  God is preparing the way for Hollywood to become Holywood.  The transformation has begun…..Hallelujah Hollywood.

The Passing of a Mantle – Faith of our Fathers

Posted on by Dr. Meri Crouley

My Father, Joe Jensen, went home to be with Jesus on October 2, 2012.  He was surrounded by his family when he went to be with Jesus.  He was 84 years old.  I was preparing to come back to Minnesota from California to say goodbye to him.  I was leading a prayer meeting at the Vineyard Church in Laguna Niguel, California.  There were about 12 people there and we were in worship when I felt an intense desire to pray for my father.  We prayed for about ten minutes for my Father and I felt a release by the Lord that everything was going to be fine.  About twenty minutes later my sister called and told me that my Father had passed away the same time we were praying for him.  My sister, Jane, told us that his eyes were closed and all of a sudden he opened his eyes .   His eyes were as large as saucers and he looked astounded!  Then he went to be with Jesus.  My Father slid into home plate in heaven and is now playing in the BIG LEAGUES.

This is all very significant because the Lord has been speaking to me about baseball often in prophetic metaphors.  The Lord has told me that bases are loaded and the church is about ready to hit a grand slam.   All of heaven is going to do the WAVE!  The fields are ripe unto harvest and I believe millions of souls are going to come into the kingdom during this next season.  I hear the Lord saying, “It’s time to PLAY BALL!”   This is our season and we are going to hit it “out of the park”! 

My older brother, Jack, passed away over 22 years ago.  He was 32 years old when he went to heaven.  It was one of the saddest days of our lives to have to say goodbye to him.  But we knew that Jack went to heaven and is with Jesus.  My dad and Jack are now reunited in heaven and I am sure that it was a beautiful homecoming. 

A “Move of the Fathers”

I have been working on the movie about Lonnie Frisbee for several years now and it is getting ready to launch.  This movie is all about Father/son relationships and how God is getting ready to bring forth a “Move of the Fathers”.  Lonnie had been the catalyst for the Jesus Movement in the sixties and seventies.  But he experienced much pain with Father figures in his life and became very disillusioned.  But at the end of his life He finally understood the Father heart of God and was healed of his pain. 

God is getting ready to awaken the hearts of His people around the world and show them the love of the Father.  He is going to “turn the hearts of the children back to their Fathers” as in Malachi 4. 

God has chosen us all to be a part of the “Dream Team”.  Let’s Dream Big and believe that all things are possible.  It’s time to PLAY BALL.  It’s time for the GRAND SLAM!  All of heaven is going to do the Wave.  Many souls are going to be saved.  It’s our time to get up to the plate.  Don’t be late and don’t hesitate. 

It’s time to hit a HOME RUN!

A Great Awakening In California

Posted on by Dr. Meri Crouley

The spirit of the Lord is moving in a tremendous way across the land and it is the time for “crossing over” into the promised land and our destinies.

Sixteen years ago God spoke to me and told me that there was a greater move of God coming than in the “Jesus Movement”.  I was told to form a foundation and call it “Youthwave Explosion” and the slogan would be – “be a part of the NEW WAVE”.    The very first Youthwave event was at the Anaheim Vineyard 16 years ago this Rosh Hashanah.

Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish new  year.  It commemorates the creation of the world and marks the beginning of the “Days of Awe”, a ten day period of introspection and repentance that culminates in the Yom Kippur holiday – also known as the “Day of Atonement”.

September 17, 2012 is the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah and will mark the 16  year anniversary of Youthwave.  But there is a greater wave that is now here in California!  Many of the prophets around the country are receiving similar words in regard to this fact.

I have interviewed both James Goll and Munday Martin on my television program “Now is the Time”.  James had a dream this past summer which was very relevant and I want to share some of it with you on my blog.

In the dream he saw SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AS A WOMB FOR THE BODY OF CHRIST!    He said he was in the spirit like an eagle flying over the United States and he zoomed in on California.  He saw glimpses of redemptive purposes and plans.  He then turned in flight over portions of southern California and he saw something that seemed unusual.  Southern California was a womb for the body of Christ!  She had been used to conceive both the word and the spirit over the last 100 years of the church and to bring forth different movements of God.

His “knower” was on high alert as he flew over Los Angeles and Orange County that this womb had already received another word – implanted at least a year earlier – and that another long-term, almost overdue, birth was imminent.  He then soared over Pasadena and the next thing I knew, the eagle suddenly flew into the historic Mott Auditorium on the hallowed grounds of William Carey University.  HE SAW JOHN WIMBER STANDING ON THE PLATFORM!

He saw people worshipping the Lord and the place was filled with the spirit of God.  All of a sudden, the late John Wimber, former leader of the Vineyard Movement and the voice for the Third Wave, was firmly standing on the newly purple carpeted platform.  The cultural atmosphere was now pregnant with a realm of the glory and the thick majesty of God.  Then I heard and felt the voice of John Wimber echo an invitation that rattled the entire place.  He simply declared, “COME AGAIN HOLY SPIRIT”.    People started crashing to the floor under the impact and authority that resonated in those simple words!   Two more times John Wimber cried out those simple words and there was a CHURCHQUAKE!

People screamed in terror as the entire grounds and buildings were rattled by the sound of God’s voice being heard and felt once again.   He saw a great cloud of witnesses including Aimee Semple McPherson and others who were gathering around to peer in around this strange outbreak.  The convergence of old anointing s– still seemingly resident upon California – were now colliding.  And then Jim woke up from the dream shook to his core by the Spirit of God.

And then I received another word from a friend of mine named Munday Martin.  I have interviewed Munday Martin on my television program and he is a revivalist for the kingdom of God.  His word was posted on the Elijah List within the last few weeks.  His word was about being awakened as well.  Here are some of his excerpts from his words.

There is a Greater Jesus Movement on the Horizon

“We are being awakened!  There is a great awakening upon us.  There is a greater Jesus movement on the horizon.  I see parking lots of convert venues being filled with young people leading a new healing revival in the streets.  I see people flocking to California again as in the “Summer of Love” but this time not for drugs, and not for new age, but because they hear Jesus is moving in California”.

California is being awakened again.  There is something shifting right now in the spirit realm.  This coming Rosh Hashanah will be the 16th anniversary of Youthwave at the Anaheim Vineyard.

On Mother’s Day of 1980 Lonnie Frisbee was invited to share his testimony.  He called all the young people up to the front after sharing his testimony and yelled “Come Holy Spirit” and the power of God hit the place.  All the young people fell to the ground speaking in tongues and filled with the power of God.  Half the elders walked out of the church because they didn’t think it was God.

Lonnie Frisbee had been the catalyst for the Jesus Movement in the late sixties and early seventies in Southern California.  In 1967 Lonnie went up to Tahquitz Canyon (near Palm Springs) and dropped LSD.  He cried out “God if your real – REVEAL YOURSELF TO ME”.    Jesus appeared to Lonnie and anointed him and told Lonnie that a light was put on him to reach the lost”.   The rest is history.

A Move of the Fathers

We have just completed the script about the Lonnie Frisbee story and I believe that God wants this movie to reach the world.  Another move of God is here but this time it will be a MOVE OF THE FATHERS.

John Wimber is significant in Jim Goll’s dream where he stood at the platform and said, “COME AGAIN HOLY SPIRIT”.   The Lord is going to visit California and this nation once again.  There is going to be a Churchquake and the sleeping church is going to awaken to her destiny.  God is going to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children and the hearts of the children back to the Fathers – lest he strike the earth with a curse (Malachi 4).

On October 20th, 2012, I am doing a conference called “GloryWave Outpouring” at “The River Church” in Costa Mesa.  We will then be going down to Corona del Mar at Pirate’s Cove and be doing baptisms.  God is breaking out in Los Angeles and Orange County.  Another wave of His spirit is here.  Let’s rock the region and see God’s power for this hour flow to the masses.    Get your board’s dude….surf’s up.

Go For The Gold

Posted on by Dr. Meri Crouley

Many of you have been watching the Olympics and seen the athletes competing for the medals.  But the ultimate medal is the Gold Medal!  There are many of you that have been going through transitions now and ready to breakthrough into the “NEW” thing which God is bringing forth into the body of Christ!

August is the eighth month and the number eight means “new beginnings”.  But I also sense that many have gone through such intense trials that they are very weary.  An athlete has to push himself while training and his coach is constantly challenging him to go harder than the athlete thinks he can endure.  Also, mentally the athlete has to envision himself as winning the event.  Many top athletes and contenders will see themselves crossing the finish line or scoring the point.

In the Bible there is a scripture that applies to this.  In I Peter 1:7 it says, “That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, thou it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor at the glory of the appearing of Jesus Christ”.

I hear the Lord saying, “Go for the gold!  Go for the glory!  This is the time that my church is going to shine.  Wake up and shake up.  I don’t care what has happened in the past…it’s time now to have a blast.  Run the race and you will find your pace.  Don’t look back at the season of lack.  But look ahead and run for the gold instead.  It’s another gold rush!  Get ready for the glory and the gold.  As long as you do what you are told.  It’s time now to be bold.  And I will give you back what the devil has stole.  And now is the time to cross the goal!  Go for the GOLD AND THE GLORY!

Michael Phelps – From ADHD Issues to Winning his 18th Olympic Gold Medal

Michael Phelps as a young man had very serious ADHD issues.  He had so much energy his mother felt she was going to lose her mind.  But then she enrolled him in swimming classes and he was like a fish out of water.  One thing Michael Phelps had was tenacity.  He hated to lose!  Many of you know that he just won his 18th gold medal (22 medals in all) at the Olympics.  I believe that this is a symbolic sign of Isaiah 22:22.  God is going to give us the key of David.  There are many keys that are being released to the church.  But we have to have patience, endurance and tenacity to not give up during times of hopelessness.  Every person in this world experiences these moments.  But we have to push past them and run for the gold.

Lonnie Frisbee Film Project

I have been working on producing a major motion picture about a man named Lonnie Frisbee for over five years.  After 3 screenplays and thousands of dollars spent – I finally found the writer who wrote the draft which I believe is the one God wants.  We just completed the script in May and now are putting together the package for final funding.  But in 2011 I was very discouraged and at one of the lowest places in my life.  I was suddenly awoken at on April 4 at 4:20 a.m.  My clock is not digital and it said, “4:4”.  I heard the voice of God say to me, “You are crossing over a threshhold, I am greenlighting your movie”.  The number 4 is the number of earth.  But 4/4 is about double portion and combined it says “8” or new beginnings.  Right after that time God started showing me how to raise the funds and they have been coming in.  If I would have quit after the 3rd script I would be no where today.  But I am pressing on for the prize – for the gold.  God told me to believe for an Oscar.  A gold statue!  Am I doing that for myself and for the glory!  No!  I want this one for the King and the Kingdom of God.

Sylvester Stallone’s Perseverance and the Script for “Rocky”

One last story to encourage you.  Sylvester Stallone was an unknown actor who had gotten a few bit parts in the early 70’s.  One day he was watching a fight between Mohammed Ali and a Caucasian fighter who happened to knock down the champ.  He was inspired to write a script about a boxer who would “go the distance”.  He wrote the “Rocky” script in an amazing two days.  He was going out on an audition for a role in a movie.  A famous producer was there who was casting for the movie and as Sylvester Stallone was leaving he happened to mention to this man that he had just written a script.  The producer told Sylvester to send it over.  Well, he immediately had the script sent and amazingly got a call and said that the producer wanted to buy it for $100,000.  This was amazing!  But Sylvester Stallone had to tell the producer that only he could play Rocky.  They turned him down!  They wanted to get Robert Redford or Ryan O’Neil to play the lead.  Sylvester Stallone was broke as a joke.  He couldn’t even feed his dog and had to sell Butkiss (he was the dog who played in the movie with Rocky).  But Sylvester persevered and finally the offer got up to $400,000!  Most people would have taken the money at that time.   But Sylvester held onto his belief that he was the only one who could play Rocky.  He wrote the role thinking of himself playing Rocky.
Finally, after months of nothing happening….something did!  A man who owned a boxing gym in Philadelphia happened to read the script.  He was very excited and called up the producer and said that he would put up 1.1 million dollars if the movie could be filmed in his boxing gym in Philadelphia.  Sylvester Stallone got the call of his lifetime.  He could play Rocky!  The rest is history.  The movie went on to win five Academy Awards!
So let’s believe that anything is possible!  Let’s go for the gold and don’t quit when things look bad.  Winston Churchhill was asked to speak at a college commencement ceremony many years ago.  He walked up to the podium with everyone looking at him with anticipation as to what he would say.  He walked to the podium, stopped, looked around and then he said these words, “Never give up, never, never, never give up”.  Then he turned around and walked away.
Just keep going.  Eventually the tide will turn and you will see the winds of change blowing you right on course.  Go for the gold!  Let’s believe that anything is possible if we don’t quit and believe what God has told us to do.

A Time To Cross Over…

Posted on by Dr. Meri Crouley

This is a season when everything is going to shift suddenly.    Last year an amazing thing happened to me on 4/4/11   I woke up from a sound sleep and looked at the clock.  It was 4:20 a.m. (on my clock it said 4:4).  I heard the Lord speak to me almost in an audible voice, “You are crossing over a threshold – I am greenlighting your movie.  Things are going to suddenly change!”  It was April 4th and the time was 4:20 a.m.   

I have been in development on a movie about Lonnie Frisbee for almost five years.  There had been many delays and difficulties the last few years.  When I heard the Lord speak to me about this I was instantly awake!   Wow!  God was going to greenlight the movie!  The bible says, “Unless the Lord build the house, they that labor, labor in vain!”.  (Psalms 127:1). 

Hold on – it’s time for the ride of your lives!

It was a week later that we did our first Frisbee event and raised enough money to hire the writer and move ahead.  Now the script is done almost a year later.  But God is doing things so suddenly now that I hear Him saying, “Hold on – it’s time for the ride of your lives!”. 

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated.  This year it will be 44 years since Martin Luther King was killed.  Four is the number of earth and  44 together is  8.  Eight is the number of new beginnings.  But I also believe that 44 is significant of  Double Portion  or the spirit of Elijah.  Look at Malachi 4:4 and it says, “Remember you the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.  Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.   And He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of  the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. 

Restoration to our Families – Isaiah 61

God is going to bring restoration to our families and everything that was lost will be recovered (Isaiah 61).  God is doing this in my own family.  My daughter, Christina, has been miraculously delivered from a spirit of anxiety and is now over in Japan and then going to Thailand to work with victims of human trafficking.  My son, Jason, is at the Dream Center and growing strong in the Lord every day.

Don’t ever quit on your Dreams!  The Lord told me the end of last year that “He was going to make our dreams come true”.  This coming Easter Season just know that God is going to roll away the stone and the things which seemed dead in your life are going to be resurrected.  Don’t lose heart….don’t lose hope.  The Lord is going to greenlight your projects and give you favor.  JUST BELIEVE!

A Cry For Hollywood…

Posted on by Dr. Meri Crouley

Hollywood is at the epicenter of an incredible movement of the Lord.  In North America today the average person spends less than 28 hours a year in church but 6 hours per day saturated in media.  That’s 2190 hours in media versus 28 hours in church!  Wow! 

Most people spend more than half their day saturated in media.  A recent Nelson study determined there are more televisions in America than human beings!  The average child will have watched 4,000 hours of TV before Kindergarten.  By age 18 the average person in America will have seen 16,000 simulated murders and 200,000 acts of violence through media (National Institute on Media and Family). 

If you want to impact a generation – impact what is impacting them – MEDIA!  Better yet – impact it with your most powerful tool – love and prayer. 

Many people throughout the years have been cursing Hollywood.  I have heard many people say that nothing good comes out of Hollywood.  But throughout the years since Hollywood’s inception – God has used Hollywood in tremendous ways to bring forth epic biblical blockbusters which have impacted a culture. 

I have been in development on a major motion picture about the Jesus Movement and Lonnie Frisbee.  The script is now completed and we are believing that this movie will be completely funded and released within the next year.  We are not cursing the darkness but putting a light forth to reach those in great darkness and despair.

I want to invite you to an event which I am involved with called THE CRY HOLLYWOOD.  On Thursday, March 15, 2012, at the Gibson Amphitheatre, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA from 2:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. you are invited to come join us from a time where thousands will cry out to God to BLESS HOLLYWOOD.  The CRY Hollywood is a strategic day of worship, prayer, fasting and decreeing the blessing of God into the heart of entertainment media.  We are believing God to release His glory in a way that will ripple through the earth.  Join us in touching a city that touches the world.

There is power in our prayers.  There is power in our blessing.  Let’s take that power and loose His glory into a sphere that is impacting the world.  Let’s Cry out for Hollywood!

Another Jesus Movement is at Hand

Posted on by Dr. Meri Crouley

In 1967 there was a 17 year old young man named Lonnie Frisbee.  He had gone up to Tahquitz Canyon and dropped LSD.  He cried out to God, “God if you’re real….reveal yourself to me!”  All of a sudden the canyon started to change.  He had a vision of the Pacific Ocean.  But instead of being filled with water it was filled with people.  They were all in darkness and lost!  Jesus then appeared to Lonnie and told him that God was putting a light on him to reach lost people.

At the same time in history there was another middle aged man named Chuck Smith.  He had been pastoring a small church for 17 years and was disillusioned.  He didn’t feel that he was making an impact anymore and was thinking about quitting the ministry.  Chuck and his wife, Kay, used to go down to Laguna Beach and watch all the hippies as they would sit on the sidewalks.  Chuck would shake his head and say, “Dirty hippies, why don’t they take a bath”.    But his wife would cry out and say, “Chuck, don’t say that!  We have to reach these kids! “

“If you ever see a hippie – bring one home!”

Chuck went home and told his kids, “If you ever see a hippie – bring one home!”   Well the Lord caused the path of these two men to connect.  Lonnie used to hitchhike around southern California to tell people about the Lord.  One day he was hitchhiking and Chuck Smith’s daughter’s boyfriend,  John, saw Lonnie and picked him up.  He brought him home to meet Chuck and the rest is history.

The moment the door opened and Chuck and Lonnie met there was an immediate connection.  Lonnie started attending the small church and bringing hundreds of hippies to the services.  Within a few months the church had exploded into a movement!

They started doing mass baptisms at the ocean in Corona Del Mar.  Time magazine heard about it and started covering the story.  They started calling it “The Jesus Revolution” and even put Jesus on the cover of Time.

The Jesus Movement

The Jesus Movement had begun!  It was very different than the established church of its time both in style and substance.  The differences were very obvious in style.  The Movement’s leaders and workers were long-haired bearded Hippies in 1968hippies in sandals who sang and preached on street corners, parks and coffeehouses, baptisms were often in the ocean at popular surfing beaches, and folk-rock “Jesus music” became a lasting form of contemporary worship that’s still popular in many churches today.

Some in the movement adapted aspects of the sixties counterculture including peaceful demonstrations, marches, and communal living.  But the hallmark of the Jesus Movement was its return to a simple Gospel and the New Testament prototype of Christianity, centered in the life and teachings of Jesus and demanding a personal relationship with him, placing a renewed emphasis on discipleship, evangelism and Bible Study.  It wasn’t about political or social agendas, it was about Jesus and His life in us and centering our lives around His teachings.  It caught a lot of traditional churches by surprise, sounding a wake-up call to comfortable Christians while proclaiming good news to those outside.

 

A Revolution of Righteousness

Well, I believe that we are at a similar time in history where another revolution is at hand.  But this will be a revolution of righteousness and it will be greater than the former Jesus Movement.

The young people of today really don’t get impacted by the mega churches which have exploded around the country.   They want something to believe in that they would give their life for.   God is looking for radical believers who will give their whole life for the Lord.  Lonnie Frisbee was one of those radicals who God used in a tremendous way to reach the culture during that time.

In 1996 the Lord spoke to me and said that there was a greater wave coming to this country than the Jesus Movement.  He told me to call my organization “Youthwave” and the slogan would be, “Be a part of the new wave!”

hippie bus

The new wave is here NOW!  It’s time to get on board and prepare for the new thing which God is breaking forth in California.  But get ready for God to use things which possibly could offend you or the church.

Lonnie Frisbee made a comment when he was on the Kathryn Kuhlman program.  He said, “And the church for so long has been expecting a certain mold of what the Christian should look like, what the Christian should say, and what the Christian should be.

But God is blowing everybody’s minds….because He’s saving the hippies.   And nobody thought a hippie could be saved.  Get ready for God to use the foolish thing to confound the wise.  Get ready for a huge tsunami of God’s love and grace which are going to rock our culture.  Surf’s up dude…grab your boards and get ready for the ride of your life!