Interview with Author Yvonne Denise Hicks

Revival is not an abstract idea to admire from a distance. We sit down with Yvonne, an apostolic leader and long-time watchman intercessor, to talk about what actually shifts a community: worship that stays, prayer that listens, and outreach that trains people into lasting change.

Yvonne traces her journey from Philadelphia evangelism and prayer walks to a defining open vision where worship and intercession break through spiritual resistance and transform an atmosphere. From there we dig into what “watchman” work looks like on the ground: researching the roots of a region, identifying blessings worth reclaiming, naming wounds that still shape a community, and responding with repentance, Scripture, and steady prayer. If you’ve been searching for practical Christian spiritual warfare, prophetic prayer, or how to pursue a Great Awakening in modern life, this conversation gives you language and next steps without hype.

We also talk about being positioned for assignment, including Yvonne’s sense of calling along the I-40 corridor and why local engagement matters, especially with families, schools, and the values shaping children. Along the way we unpack spiritual authority for every believer, the role of the Holy Spirit as Helper, and testimonies of restoration that touch real life, including finances, hope, and healing from addiction and despair.

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Transcript

Welcome And Guest Introduction

SPEAKER_00 0:01

God bless you and thank you for tuning in again to Blossoms of My Life Radio. Thank you to so many listeners that download our podcasts and listen to us on YouTube. I just can't thank you enough. We have some powerful guests and powerful testimonies, and today I'm going to introduce you to a sister in Christ that is on the East Coast. She's in the Carolinas. She is an apostolic leader, and she was sent by the Lord to the Carolinas. And she's going to talk about this. There's a message in where she's at right now. Um, she's been active in ministry for about 45 years, primarily as a watchman intercessor. And we can talk about that as well because that's important in this day and time. Her heart passion has been to help usher in another great awakening such that real powers is unleashed to break hopelessness, despair, drug, and alcohol addiction, as well as to restore individuals, families, and communities to the glory of God as intended. At the Lord's prompting, Yvonne has been a student of past revivals and awakenings. As such, she has taken her on a prophetic prayer journey that has spanned nearly those 40 years plus to retrace the roots of the awakening that birthed this nation. Praise the Lord. She's got a couple books out. We're going to talk about that. One of them is An Oak of Righteousness, grafting the seeds of destiny into the root of covenant. She also has her own ministry called Yvonne Denise Ministries. She's the founder and the lead minister of Releasing Heaven Ministries, which was birthed in 2012. She thought she was going to be living overseas in Iraq, and we're going to probably talk about that as well. But she's just on a journey to find out where the Lord wants her. And we're going to talk about that as well. So thank you so much for taking the time out of your day, Yvonne, to talk to us.

SPEAKER_01 1:58

It's my pleasure.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

So let's let's go back to, I know there was a lot of information that I'm giving to my audience, but you know, there may be somebody tuning in that maybe doesn't know you and wants to find out what is a watchman and why are you called to do what you're doing, and maybe, you know, when did you start feeling like this was gonna be your calling?

SPEAKER_01 2:21

So I uh am originally from Philadelphia.

What A Watchman Intercessor Does

SPEAKER_01 2:25

I was saved there and really started my journey there with the Lord. I it was out of college. I started out in church as as a little girl, like at seven, but the chaos, I was born in the 60s, so there was a lot of chaos in our city and and all that type of thing. And so been on that journey. So it was out of college that I actually got saved and started with prayer and worship and just really saw the condition of the city and had had gotten involved with a a a local church in in West Philadelphia. There were again a lot of you know crime and there was a crackhouse across the street and different things. And we we started doing evangelism, prayer walks, and that type of thing. And I I got frustrated because we would be doing these things, people would be snotting and crying and repenting, but people weren't coming inside the church, lives weren't really being changed. And I remember one outreach where I stepped outside of the park we were where we were at, and I asked the Lord, I was like, Lord, you had one conversation with the woman at the well and you changed her life. What's wrong? What's what's what's going on? How come uh we can't really break through because we're feeding people, we're clothing people, we're trying to pray for people, but tomorrow, Lord, those men are going to be on the park bench. What can we do? And so he's taken me on a journey. I uh a couple years after that and moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and I a job that I had there. And the first night that I was there, I had this open vision. And I saw, you know, that I was a part of a team. We were doing some evangelism outreach in this little village, and the rest of the team came in. We didn't have much success there, but the rest of the team came in and they were a worship band, and they were doing worship and spiritual warfare, and it was breaking open the heavens, and it was like this river of Holy Spirit glory came out of where that worship and prayer kind of was going all night, and um, it shifted the atmosphere in that village, and things started to change. And so I was like, okay, what is that? Where is that? You know, how do I get involved in that? And so uh the Lord took me on a journey in terms of I found out there were groups that did that. I first heard about Terry Law, who's now home with the Lord, you know, the power of praise and worship. He did something similar during the the heavy communist regimes, and they would do worship and prayer. I remember, you know, just different stories like that. And so the Lord has taken me on the journey to find those key core things because I would find people who would worship, but they wouldn't pray. You know, they would worship and do outreach, but wouldn't pray. They would worship and pray and wouldn't do outrage. And so, you know, so it's it's been a journey, but so that's where releasing heaven ministries came. So, like, you know, after 30 something years in, I was like, Lord, you know, still, you know, because it was I was part of a church that uh was doing worship and prayer, but it was a kind of a conference culture, and people would be asking me simple questions. I was like, we're not really feeding and teaching and training people to change their lives, their communities' lives, and so forth. And so in 2012, the Lord took me back in a dream, in a vision, back to Philadelphia. I saw my, you know, kind of saw myself, you know, kind of fussing a little bit. And and I he gave me a choice. Do you want to take that journey and and actually make a difference? Or what do you want to do? And I was like, yes, Lord, we'll release heaven on earth. And so that started releasing Heaven Ministries in 2012, and he told me to align with Chuck Pierce. I didn't know what that meant. And so I I found out different ways. I had to dig on their website, found out that they were watchmen. And I I was familiar with this his ministry, but not in those terms. And so, you know, I I immediately connected there in Texas, and I asked the Lord, am I supposed to move to Texas? And he was like, No. I called you and sent you to Charlotte, just sent you to the Carolinas. And so that's kind of what prompted me in terms of doing worship prayer and adding in outreach and again chasing that awakening. When the student of history and the Moravians, and then later on the Waldisians, and this nation was birthed out of prayer movements. And so, you know, secret sauce, right? That that's um anointing. So that's kind of where I've I've been chasing that. Um the Lord prompted me in 2019 to write the book, to write, you know, because we've been doing uh releasing Heaven Ministries has been doing like, you know, county to county prayer. We would go find the blessing that was over that area or the curse that was released in that area because of, you know, some you know, whether it could have been could have been slavery, it could have been, you know, just anything, right? In terms of we would just kind of dig and do the research and and find out, you know, what might have gone wrong, where where can we repent? What can we do? And we would try to train people as we went to do the same thing, you know, to take up that mantle and do that in your area, do it in your family, you know, like there being from Philadelphia, there would be stories, you know, from the the the you know, when uh Philadelphia was founded about, you know, you could hear worship and prayer, you know, in on the cobblestone streets and you know, in the early, you know, early time period. And you know, that's kind of what I saw we need to get back to worship and prayer at home. What's going on in your neighborhood? What's going on in your family? What's going on in your community? And that type of thing.

SPEAKER_00 9:05

Wow. Wow. I love what you're doing. And so how long ago has how long have you been? I know we're gonna talk, I want to talk about you said in your first information that you sent me that you're not quite sure where the Lord has you, you're on an unusual assignment, but that he directed you towards the I-40. And so you're in position and you're just waiting right now.

SPEAKER_01 9:32

Yes. So I've come across some things. So this region where I am now used to have those circuit riders. They used to have camp, they used to have camp meetings, and and it wanes and and when we don't occupy the the ground that's been cleared, right? The the atmosphere that's been shifted, when we don't occupy, when when we're not in government, when we're not doing business, when we're not you know, having a key role in education, when

Worship And Prayer That Break Through

SPEAKER_01 10:05

we're not doing those things, it becomes vacated and the enemy floods in. And so that's one of the things that I see in this area. And the the Lord told me that it's beautiful here, that these are his mountains. Like I, you know, the the mountain range that I'm he told me to get up to a highway wrapped around a mountain, that mountain range is called Mount Piska. I'm in the Piska National Forest, you know, it was named, you know, after the mountains in Israel and things like that. So there's history here. And so I'm engaging in there's uh the enemies, there's witchcraft here, and there's a lot of cultural things here that bring in uh demonic presence in this area. And so I've been finding out, like I'm I'm involved now with a mom's group. I don't have any children, I'm single, but they're fighting uh for their children, right? Our grade levels are really poor here, the grade scores and and things like that, and they're teaching gender ideology or or you know, different things like that. And so it it it matters and it shifts how how we're training our children. We're there's so much on the computers, you know, the the screen time and different things like that. So that's one of the reasons I believe we're here in this area to help support that, but also because I-40 goes coast to coast. Oh wow, and there's been prophetic words with through Dutch sheets and different apostolic prophetic leaders about the Lord doing revival again coast to coast, right? A new Azusa, right? They they saw arrows short shooting out and flames and you know, just runners, you know. And so I've in my territory, I've I've gone to the end of I-40 in in Wilmington, North Carolina, and and you know, we've done some prayer walks um around and again getting engaged locally at the community level and and with families, and you know, take back the authority the Lord gave you over your family. Praise the Lord. Over your community.

SPEAKER_00 12:24

And that's really important to have watchmen that are doing doing the research. I remember it's been probably eight or nine years ago, where we're at in this community in the Bay Area of California. They did something with the seven mountain peaks, and we had people go up and declare and kind of put up a canopy that you know across that. So we had watchmen at each peak, and then prayer and anointing oil went out at the same time on each mountaintop. But there was people in each of those areas that were actually doing kind of like what you describing, where they were looking at the area of what kinds of things were there before and the background of the land and everything to try kind of to claim it back, right?

SPEAKER_01 13:21

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

Yeah, I remember that happening. I don't know what much has gone on with that. I'm not in contact with the people that did that before, but I I think I remember it, if I'm not mistaken, kind of went along with the National Day of Prayer, if I'm not mistaken. But yeah, I need to connect back with those people just to see kind of where that was. But, you know, spiritually speaking, those of you that can understand what Yvonne's talking about, we're in a place right now where it's important to find out the roots of everything, even within your own family unit. You know, if things are going on, it's okay to ask the Lord, like, is there something that I need to, you know, renounce or or clean out, or because of generational curses that can happen, but there can also be generational blessings, right? But we know but we never know what peaks in because you know, the enemy and his little minions, they'll go inside of something very tiny and they'll just squirm their little way in, whether it's their grandchildren or great-grandchildren or nieces or cousins or in-laws, whatever it may be, whatever comes through that family can allow something to sneak in. And then that tends to take control rather than what we, you know, we're we're hoping as Christians now that our family can be saved and and you know, we're looking at different things. Once we come to the Lord, then we're like, okay, now I want my family to come where I what I you know, especially when you first come to the Lord, you're like, I want everybody to follow me, right? You don't want them to not repent, you want them to join you in this heaven that you're just learning about. And it's it's it's very important work, even if for someone within their family, you know. Maybe that's all you have that you can do, but that's so important. Like research your family and find out. But then there's people like you that have a calling to take that even further over an area, and I love that. I love that the Lord's called you to do that.

SPEAKER_01 15:31

Yeah, and I think it's important to look at the blessings in terms of look at the authority that you have as a believer. Yes, you know, even though the enemy might have creeped in here and there, you know, that type of thing, we have authority, and that's one of the things that I I've seen that people don't recognize the authority that they have that the Lord gave them, that you can bind and loose and release blessings. And one of the other things in my journey is that you know, going through a couple different churches and things like that is that it's important for the family, you train your child. I mean I love children's church and love all of the activities and things like that, but the children watch what their parents do. And so if you are in a place where you're a believer and you have children, train them up, you know, read the word of God with them. Read, you know, make sure that what they're watching on on screens and different things like that is aligned with what your family values are, aligned with the Lord. And one of the powerful things that I, you know, I know you

Building Releasing Heaven Ministries

SPEAKER_01 16:45

said this is gonna air in you know, next month or so, but one of the powerful things that really amazed me is that uh when they did the America Reads the Bible in seven days, and there's something about speaking the word and hearing the word, and that's the way you know, in the early church, that's what happened. You know, people were reading the scroll, right? There was one scroll, right? Then people were reading out loud and hearing out loud, and there were certain scriptures I knew, but when it was read, it was like, yes, you know, the their the authority of the word and the clarity came through it. I was just amazed. I was amazed.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

And and there's power in his word. And you know, I was just for some reason, I was just thinking about this is that, you know, maybe somebody's just new in their faith and they say, I'm not good at that, I don't know what to do. And and I just want to remind you that the blood of Christ is the same for the new believer as it is for a seasoned believer. It's it's the same blood, like he shed that blood so that we could be with him. And so if you're just new in your faith and you're like, I want to make sure that my family is doing well, and how do I do that? And what authority? I mean, there's scriptures, and I can't quote where they're at, that talk about us being ambassadors to Christ. And you think about an ambassador in another country that sometimes they come and they visit the White House and their representation of that country where you've been called to be an ambassador for Christ, that's a big title. And and he calls you that, he calls you his own, he calls you chosen, all those wonderful things that he calls you now that you're in faith through him. And so his blood is the same as it is for Yvonne talking about what she's doing as a watchman in her area, as a new believer that just repented and came to the Lord last week. His blood's the same, it covers a multitude of sins and it it relinquishes all of that and brings you to that place of freedom.

SPEAKER_01 18:58

And I just want to encourage people also is that the scriptures tell us that in and and Jesus said, you know, I'm sending you a helper.

SPEAKER_00 19:08

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

And we have a helper in the Holy Spirit. And I can tell you, as a new believer, when in my the early days, you know, I would try to read my word, and it would be difficult. You know, and then I got spirit-filled, and when I would read, it was all of a sudden the the the scriptures came alive in in terms of understanding. I was like, well, that makes per perfect sense, and and things like that. So those were the days that you know there were a lot of, I know I just saw that Meryl, Marilyn Hicke Hickey just went home with the uh to be with the Lord, but she was one of those teachers that I would listen to, and Derek Prince and things like that. I would listen to, and that there's a lot of things on YouTube and so forth. And I think you said you have resources as well for folks to to really it it it makes a difference and it changes your your life, and and the Lord is more interested in helping you do those things and get that understanding, and it's it's it's amazing.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

Yes, and the Holy Spirit is so important to have that, you know. And I like when I'm talking to the youth, you know, we believe in the Trinity and the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit. Well, the son had to go back, and so he left the Holy Spirit for us, and the Holy Spirit is here to help us, and it's so true. And I remember, you know, being in church for a long time and wanting to like I want what they're talking about because the pastors would talk about it and I want that, and it just seemed like the people in the front row were the ones that were gonna get it. And I'm like, I don't understand because it should be all of us. If he's speaking to all of us, I want that too. And you know, some places say we have to take this class and then you know, do these four weeks, and then we'll talk about where you should be, but that's not how the Holy Spirit works. Yes, it's good to learn about the Holy Spirit, but when you're gonna get filled with the Holy Spirit, it's just about your hunger for the Holy Spirit, and then it happens. And I remember where I had to leave and go somewhere else because I'm like, I'm not getting it here, and that's what I want. And then the Lord led me somewhere else, and then I talked to that pastor, which is where I'm at now, and this is where I'm at. Like, I want what they talk about, and I don't know how to I've taken this class, I've gotten this certificate, I and I can't, I want that. And so he saw my hunger and he scripturally walked me through the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and immediately, you know, uh evidence of speaking in tongues, and then I ended up, you know, time went on, and and then all of a sudden I have a prophetic tongue towards the church, and and I'm still praying for them to. Interpretation, I've interpreted a few messages, but with that power that Yvonne's talking about, from there, that's how my book started coming out. That's how there was a word of God that was spoken over me, that I would have a lot of words to share with a lot of people. Well, here comes blossoms of my life, you know, the the shows. And say we've been doing this since 2018. But that happened in 2016, just about the end of 1516, when I got the whole the met the Holy Spirit. Like this is what's real, right? And it changed my life. Changed my life completely. Yes. And so I encourage you, don't just be that person that sits in church and just goes and just listens and just, you know, do more. Like get activated because you do come with a title. You are an ambassador to Christ. Find out how you can use that gift and that title that He's giving you and watch what He does.

SPEAKER_01 23:00

It's amazing. It's amazing. And so that's where when we know who we are and know He's with us, His power, His authority, and we gather together with two or three at least, right? Your family and your church or a particular prayer group, you have authority and you've got the backing of heaven. And so when things may seem huge, you know, we can pray. We can pray and use our authority. And that that's for me, I think one of the reasons that you know the Lord has me off of I-40 coast to coast is just to have that that level of prayer and and encouragement to people and have them watch and see. I believe this area is going to be transformed, like the witchcraft that's here and all of that. I believe that God is transforming that. That's why there's there are many believers that were sent in this area. They're believers here. And He loves us. He loves the children. And, you know, I kind of did a little my three-minute comment to the Board of Education because of some of the things they were teaching. And I was like, these children belong to the Lord. And uh it's in our constitution, it's in our state constitution about who the Lord is and you know, making a covenant with the Lord. And that's one of the key things that the Lord has taught me. It's a covenant.

Researching Land Roots And Family Patterns

SPEAKER_01 24:35

And he, you know, the when you're weak and you know, you've made covenant and you you call on him, he's gonna answer. I I I love the story with David and Mesebuchet, you know, the I mispronounce his name, but you know, Jonathan's son who's crippled and things like that. He had a place at the king's table. You know, don't you don't fear, don't, you know, don't be afraid. And I believe the Lord is inviting us to his table, you know, inviting us to his presence, inviting us to fellowship with them and know that he's with us, he's for us, and you know, the earth is our inheritance. He said the meek shall inherit the earth, and when we're aligned with the Lord, uh the the earth belongs to him and it belongs to us because we belong to him.

SPEAKER_00 25:26

Can you imagine? I just have that vision of that table when we go to be with the Lord and that table, and just sitting at that table, what it's gonna look like and how long it's gonna be with everybody that's there. I can't even imagine. Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

And one of the things, Ramona, I'm I'm I'm of the type that, you know, the earth is ours. And so there's a a place where he prepares a table in the presence of our enemies. There's no enemies in heaven, and so there's a place here where he's given us authority, you know, the disciple people and disciple nations. And so I just we can do that here. We can, you know, and and invite people in, you know, to you know, that you know and fellowship and things like that to you know to to break break bread together and and and talk about the Lord together and worship together. Sounds like you're doing that. That that's sounds like what your church is like. And so I just wanted to encourage people because I I've got a lot of friends who are just looking for, you know, a rapture, you know, that type of thing, where the Lord is, you know, giving us authority here. We we can take care of this. This is together, and he wants to show us that we can.

SPEAKER_00 27:00

Right. I know it's like the other day, I can't remember who said it, but somebody in the church said during testimony time, like, you know, I just want the Lord to hurry up and come, come, Lord. And then somebody stood up and said, Wait a minute, I still got loved ones I'm praying for. I don't want them to come yet till they come to the Lord. And I thought, you know what, that makes some sense. You know, sometimes we get so selfish in the things that that we're seeing or that we're experiencing, and that our emotions are hurt by things, that we want to hurry up and expedite everything, but we fail to forget that there's a lot of prayers that still need to be answered that people are waiting for, right? And and and so I tell the Lord now is like, Lord, you know, I already know, like I've heard a couple words on a few of my loved ones that I'm just waiting for that to come to pass. Lord, you said it would come to pass. So whether you take me and I leave before it happens, I'm still trusting you that it's gonna happen because you said it.

SPEAKER_01 28:01

Yeah. And that that's my hunger for awakening, Ramona. That's where I I've studied uh past awakenings, where uh you know uh towns and and villages were completely transformed. Um there's a talent, uh I always kind of butcher it a little bit, Alamanga, Gualamala, where revival came, awakening came, where the the pastors joined together and they worshiped, they prayed, they shifted the atmosphere of their town. And now the the jails are pretty much closed, right? Because, you know, they had a problem with alcohol and and wife beating and all these kind of things. And this wave of glory hit this town. And so this town, like the the it's it's now the Holly Lily laundromat instead of the the saloon, right? Different things like that, and big cat the the cabbage, you know, growing like a you know, a head of cabbage is so huge, and a carrot the size of a man's full-length arm. Wow, the Lord restored the land and healing, and so that's where there's a level of anointing, a level of power that I've again just got glimpses of and hungry for, that we can shift the atmosphere in particularly in this nation, because this nation was founded through covenant. And one of the experiences that I had is um um it was shortly, it was like um maybe six months after my mom passed, and I was helping with the Bible college, and there was a conference in Virginia Beach, and I wasn't gonna go, and the Lord was like, Yes, you will go, right? So I'm like, Yes, Lord, I'm gonna go. And so when I went there, I found out the story of Reverend Robert Hunt and how in 1607, I didn't realize, so this was the 400th anniversary, right? You know, this was 2007, and I didn't I didn't know and all of that, and they talked about how he came and he planted a cross and he made a prayer to uh to the Lord for this nation. And so I was walking the beach and the Lord was like, this is Acts 17, 26. This is the, you know, he's pre-appointed our times and our boundaries so that we would know him. And he turned, you know, he's allowed me to do some mission stuff overseas, but he turned my heart back towards America. And I was like, Yes, Lord, you know, we'll release heaven on earth again in America. And so it's just, you know, President Trump last year, there was a group of people that got him to write the proclamation about 1607 and and and that prayer. Just there's a thread all through my story about Reverend Robert Hunt and many people who've been stirred by by um him and and other people like that, right? Um there's an A Great Awakening movie that uh I think you can get on Amazon Prime Prime now. I think it's out of the theaters about George Whitfield and Benjamin Franklin and different ones who stirred. I mean, there is no way in the natural we should have won the American Revolutionary War. No way. And only 4%, I think, actually fought or actually, you know, stood. And so we can we can shift things where we can bring prosperity back, we can bring family values back, we can, you know, just bless the earth, bless where we are, you know, pray for the cities where we are, the scripture tells us, and things like that. So that's kind of where an oak of righteousness, like rebuilding, restoring, renewing. Okay, what you that's out of Isaiah 61. And it's the scripture that Luke, I mean, that Jesus quoted of when and it's it's described in Luke, Luke chapter four, I think. And he read part of it, you know, the spirit of the Lord is upon me, you know, the Lord has anointed me, you know, and all that, that part there, but the part that's ours, I believe, is that Isaiah 61:4. He's made us oaks of righteousness so that we can rebuild, restore, renew the waste places.

SPEAKER_00 32:30

And that's your that's your book title, An Oak of Righteousness. Okay. Yes. Wow. And so, you know, there there might be people listening that maybe still struggle with walking in their faith, you know, and so your words of encouragement in in reminding them, maybe they feel hopeless. Yes. And they're just struggling, you know, like I saw how you love to work with people, you know, with addictions and things to help them. Because, you know, that's just the enemy is just trying to just squash all that power that we truly have and and not allow them to see clearly of who they are. And you know, in the name of Jesus, right now, I just claim healing over that on anybody that's listening right now because that is not God's intention, and there's greater things for you right now. And like I was saying earlier, if you're listening, that that that blood that he shed on the cross was meant for you as well. That precious blood is just there to heal you. That one drop is all that you need. It's like the woman that touched the hem, right? The woman at the well, even like there's so many incidences in the Bible of how God reached the lost and the broken because he knew they would scream out the loudest, like, you're not gonna believe what the Lord did for me, right? And and that's what he's looking for, that awakening, like you said. Like, you know, we're not talking like the people, Yvonne. There's people that just don't feel like they're called. You know, they're they're just so caught up in and worrying about how they're gonna feed their kids this week.

I-40 Assignment And Local Culture Battles

SPEAKER_00 34:15

Right. Things like that. Despair. That's the way they're in despair right now, and today in in the way the world is, and you know, Ivana and I are just want to just pray hope over you because that that those things, uh yes, they're hard, they're struggles, but I guarantee you like the Lord sees you, he hears you, and he wants more than anything for you to just trust him and watch and see. I love that, watch and see.

SPEAKER_01 34:47

Yes, yes. And I, you know, my life, you know, I started out as a little girl in a church, but just circumstances and it it my life was a wreck when I when I came back to the Lord and things that you know I just felt that he couldn't forgive me for, but he can, and he does. And I and there's just power in knowing, power in in and worship. And so the there's power in our prayers, and you can shift the atmosphere in your home by decree and declare what the word says, you know, you if if you finances I I've had, you know, the miracles. I've I've had my electric meter, you know, I had some people that I roomed with and they stiffed me on the electric bill. And when I moved to uh my first house in Charlotte, they uh you know, I had to pay a $500 electric bill that they left behind. And this was years ago, so that's probably I don't know how much that would have been in these these days and times, right? And so, you know, I I cried out to the Lord and praise and and and everything, and my electric meter went backwards for a whole year.

SPEAKER_00 36:05

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 36:07

And I I called them, I said, something's wrong with my meter, and they're like, oh no, you don't know us any money. I was like, okay, and I started like saving what I thought my electric bill might be worth because I was like, I'm gonna get a really big bill. But in a year's time, like double the money that I lost, in a year's time, it just started going back the right way.

SPEAKER_00 36:27

Wow, yeah. Yeah, I remember somebody telling me, I I can't remember a message that I heard. God, this was in 2000 and geez, probably 13, 14, but I had bad credit, bad everything, coming back to my faith, right? Everything's a mess. And I remember I was just wishing, like somebody had talked to me about buying a home. I'm like, oh god, I could never buy a house. There's just no way. I mean, I just you know, bankruptcy, everything. And out of the blue, somebody talked to me and said, Well, look, do you mind if I just like run some numbers? And I'm like, you can run them, but there's just no way. And and mind you, I had a good job. I was teaching, so I made good money, just bad credit. But you know, the the testimony is how God restores everything. I was approved with my bad credit and at the time for a condo for 250,000, and I was blown away, like I was crying. I had so much time to find a place for this grant that they were gonna give me in order where I only had to have 5,000 down. And so I remember we were looking everywhere, and everything was like 280,000, 290 at that time, and then it was kind of like my last two days of trying to find something where I would have to start the whole process again. And then all of a sudden, I just happened to go online and I found this three-bedroom, two-bath. I had my daughter and her two kids with me. Condo right where I wanted it to be. It's a block away from my other daughter, and I had asked for that, and it was 250,000. And I called my realtor on and she's like, they need the offering today. And I'm like, there's a lot of people. And I was like, okay, well, Lord, if this is where you want me, then you're gonna make that happen because I'm just surprised I even got this far. And I wrote a letter, and I was able to bump all the other 10 offers, and they took my offer, and that started my financial freedom because a pastor had told me I had heard his lesson on we pray for our health, and sometimes our finances need to be healed. And I'm like, you know what? I'm always praying for people to be healed. You're right, Lord. I'm gonna ask for healing over my finances. I'm gonna start believing that you're gonna heal that for me. By gosh, he did. Because that started my journey of home ownership. Where and so, yes, God will heal your finances. If you're listening to me, my voice, that was my testimony to let you know. Start praying over your finances and asking him for wisdom and ask him to heal the brokenness that had already, you know, it's just like if you came from a life of addiction, you have all those that garbage that came with it, right? And you you want the Lord to restore all that, he can do the same thing with your finances. Why? Because he wants to show you who he is.

SPEAKER_01 39:32

Yes, he is a covenant-keeping God.

SPEAKER_00 39:36

I love it, I love it. Praise the Lord. Well, I'm excited about your I-40.

unknown 39:43

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 39:46

Just to see what the Lord's gonna do there. I'm gonna have to introduce you to my friends in North Carolina. They're in um Charlotte, I believe, in that area, but I'm gonna have to introduce you to them, Apostle Edward and Sabina. I think you'd love to meet them because they're amazing people that are praying up there in North Carolina as well. And so your book, Yvonne, where can we get your book?

SPEAKER_01 40:10

So it is still on Amazon, I believe, but there's a I think I sent you the link to bookbaby dot com. There's a link there that'll take you to to the page. And it if, you know, if if someone for me, it's it's not about selling a book. If someone needs the book and can't afford it, just you know, have them let you know. And um, I will send you, you know, a link where it it'll be a PDF form, but they can pull it into Amazon Kindle.

SPEAKER_00 40:44

Awesome. Thank you so much. So those of you that are listening, you heard Yvonne. So if you want to reach out to me, then we can work that out. How can people follow you in your journey

Authority In Christ And Restoration Stories

SPEAKER_00 40:55

of what you're doing? Or if I've got friends that are in your area, how can they join you in what you're doing?

SPEAKER_01 41:03

So I I I think I gave you my emailed address. I have not, since moving, I have not updated any of my websites. Okay. So sorry about that, but I do keep up with the Facebook pages. So there is a releasing heaven ministries uh Facebook page, there's an Ivan Denise Ministries Facebook page, and I'm on Facebook as well. And the emails and things like that still work, and I'd be happy to reach out to folks. It was just a very difficult move, and the Lord, I'm waiting because he's shifting me. And so certain things on pause. The team is still running, releasing heaven ministries in the Charlotte area.

SPEAKER_02 41:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 41:44

And Yvonne Denise Ministries, I'm waiting. I'm I'm trying to do strategic strengths. So I've Moms for Liberty, I'm a part of the local chapter here. I um also Patriot Academy, which focuses on our, you know, the Constitution, our our government, which is which is a godly government. Um and so the history of that and rebuilding liberty and taking care of some of these areas that we're all concerned about. Um so so they can reach out to me. I think I gave, you know, the emails addresses come to me, but they can reach out on Facebook as well.

SPEAKER_00 42:21

Awesome. And so on Facebook, you're under Yvonne Hicks?

SPEAKER_01 42:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 42:27

Okay. So if those of you that are listening want to reach out or want to join her efforts or want to talk to her about how do I do this, you know, or how do I walk in my calling, I'm sure she'd be willing to walk you and talk you through that. And if you're interested, yeah, if you're in that area, boots on the ground, she's ready. She's just waiting for the Lord to give her the next step of what she needs to do, and and she's just in position, you know, waiting for that to happen. Wow. Wow, Yvonne. I'm so glad that we had this talk, and it's exciting to hear what you're doing. Um encouragement, maybe can you talk a little bit before we get ready? I'm gonna have you pray us out. But what can someone do? So, what I what I heard you just kind of re-recapping is if you've never done this type of work, start out in your home first. Does that sound about right?

SPEAKER_01 43:22

So it might not be first, but definitely should be a part of it because the so this is from Nehemiah, right? Rebuild the wall in front of your house, right? So, you know, this that is an excellent place to start. But l like for me, I'm I'm single and so I find different folks that are like minded. I I pray at home, but to to in order to impact my community, I find people who are like minded. Again, I've Moms for Liberty has, you know, things that I align with, Patriot Academy has things I align with, and so Finding uh local groups that are aligned with with what you feel the Lord is giving you strength or or or you know you're you're mad about it. You know? And you know, that's prayer is a good way to start to to make a change.

SPEAKER_00 44:19

Amen. Amen. Any last words for our guests?

SPEAKER_01 44:24

No, just believe. God is a covenant-keeping God, he's a restorer, he's a healer, and there's power in our testimony, there's power in the two or three. We are called to be the head and not the tail above and not beneath. And we are called to release heaven on earth. We're called to disciple people and nations. And so, whatever the Lord's passion is for you. And so, Father, I just it's can it's okay to pray here?

SPEAKER_00 44:56

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 44:57

So, Father, I just thank you for Ramona and thank you for her ministry, Lord. We bless it, Lord, Father, to just all the connections. We need to be connected. We're one nation under God. And so, Father, I just thank you for everyone who's gonna catch this replay or catch this broadcast, Lord, and Lord, touch their hearts, encourage them, Lord God, have them, Lord, just sit before you and ask you and Lord, answer their cry in their heart, Lord, and give them dreams and visions of what you've called them to do and be be you created them with for purpose, Lord. And we bind the hand of the enemy that's trying to cloud their vision, try trying to cloud their hearing, Lord, and we just bless them in everything that their hand touches. We bless their families, we bless their finances, Lord God, we bless their children in Jesus' name.

SPEAKER_00 45:56

And Father, right now in the name of Jesus, I pray, Father God, for that listener that maybe just happened to tune in and says, How do I do this? Or, you know, how do I meet this Jesus that they're talking about, Father? I just pray in the name of Jesus that you just speak to them, Father God. Share your truth with them, share your love with them, Father. And if you're listening and you're saying, I don't know what to do, and just repent of your sins. That means you say that you're sorry for anything that you've done. And yes, some of the things that you've done might be really, really bad, and you might feel really bad about saying it, but he wants you to just repent and say

Book Details Connections And Closing Prayer

SPEAKER_00 46:35

those things because the scripture says he'll forgive it from the east to the west. His blood was enough for you, and just ask him to be a part of your life, and then find a Bible-believing church and and get your Bible and ask the Holy Spirit to be a part of teaching you. And if you don't understand, pray before you read and just ask him to be a part of that. And so I pray that. Also, I I just felt impressed to pray over somebody that might have something to do with their hearing in the name of Jesus. I just pray, Father God, in the name of Jesus, put your hands over your ears and just ask in the name of Jesus that hearing be restored right now, in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, that hearing be restored, that you'd be able to hear a spiritual awakening voice that says, do this, do that, that your eyes will match up to what you hear, Father, in the name of Jesus. And anybody that's out there that's struggling with some type of a addiction. Uh we pray in the name of Jesus. The blood was enough for that. Allow Christ to do the work in you. You don't need to have that anymore. In the name of Jesus, I pray for strength over you right now in the name of Jesus. Strength that you can change the circumstances by just saying yes to him. And Father, I just ask a blessing over Yvonne and the work, Father God. And I just excited to hear what she what you have next for her, Father. And I just thank everybody for tuning in. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

SPEAKER_01 48:13

Amen. Amen.