Walking Tall In Babylon

By Nik Walker

The church has lost its vision under the captivity of modern day Babylon! What if the world doesn’t need a duplicate of the person you aspire to be? What if God has planted a vision in you that would change the trajectory of the entire church? This concept is nearly impossible to grasp in a society that bullies and intimidates to keep people in their make believe cages, especially in the spirit realm. Unfortunately, much of the church has taken on this identity of slavery to the point of remaining stagnate to appease a secular society and church. As referenced in scripture and throughout this text, God is up to something new in a hungry generation! It takes the anointing of the Holy Spirit to bring a big vision to life in dead regions. When all hope has been lost, God is looking to raise up a remnant generation of visionaries that are willing to run courageously out of their cages and into the heart of the Father! In this book, evangelist Nik Walker provides insight and wisdom based on scripture and experiences of casting big vision in small places. When an entire generation is crying out for the real thing, it is time for a remnant to walk tall!

Walking Tall In Babylon contains insight and experiences from scripture in areas such as:
•Living in your created identity•Refusing to live in what “used to be”
•Keeping your circle refined
•The necessity of hunger
•Mentalities that kill your vision
•Why many have lost sight of their seeds
•Removing the lens of a slave
•Keeping your passions from burning you out
•Seeing what the bird sees
•What if my spiritual womb is barren?

No longer are we simply waiting on a move of God. We are a move of God! Read how God will bring a vision to life that will change the landscape of a nation... through you!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nik Walker
• Release date: Aug 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005159610

Nik Walker

Nik Walker is a young evangelist from Mullens, West Virginia. He is the president of Nik Walker Ministries, a growing ministry that relocated to Summersville, West Virginia following a ten week revival in the area. Nik and his team travel to churches, gymnasiums, and auditoriums across the country seeking to bring revival and awakening to cities and regions across America and abroad.

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Walking Tall in Babylon

Copyright 2020 Nik Walker

Published by Nik Walker at Smashwords

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FOREWORD

In the memory vault of my mind, I can recall when a young, zealous evangelist packed his used car with boxes of notes, a few suits, and a heart full of faith. He had a burning desire to see revival. He traveled to small, rural churches hosting services that continued nightly anywhere from three to eleven weeks. I remember a night when an angel showed up and shook the house because I am that young man who is now 61 years of age. I have reached my generation, and now it is time for an anointed remnant of young men to arise and initiate a move — the Joel 2 revival. The message stays the same, but the method is changing. To step into this move of God, the Body of Christ must understand how to release themselves from the bondage of the spirit of Babylon and seize the vision. Your revelation can change your situation.

I believe Nik Walker has a calling from God to carry and lead a part of this great and final awakening. He already sees powerful revivals with amazing spiritual results in towns across the mountain regions of several states. In the pages to come, you will read the product of his hunger. I believe this book serves as a manifesto of freedom, designed to take a revelation from God's Word and unleash your potential through the obedience of God's will. Nik takes you on a journey, detailing his walk of faith through his life experiences with God. He explores the vision of who you were created to be, delivering you from the security of our worldly identities and titles. Remember, truth is only useful if it's applied. One must put what they have learned into action, and this book is a great example of what happens when you apply truth to your life in obedience to God's will.

Perry Stone

International Evangelist and Teacher

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1

The Curse Called Used to Be

Chapter 2

The Vision of You

Chapter 3

The Secret Word

Chapter 4

Mentalities That Block Vision

Chapter 5

The Power of the Seed

Chapter 6

Keeping Your Circle from Becoming A Blob

Chapter 7

When Your Vision Becomes Your Burden

Chapter 8

The Vision of a Slave

Chapter 9

From the Bird’s Eye

Chapter 10

Welcome to the World

Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

The Word of God is filled with vision. In fact, the entirety of the Word of God is a vision of love and redemption, but it is more than a love story. It is a vision of our future in eternity with Jesus Christ. Though we see the vision of the Kingdom only dimly (1 Cor. 13:12), it is this vision that keeps the zeal alive in our hearts.

In Hebrew, the word for vision has several meanings, one of which is a divine communication in a vision, oracle, or prophecy. In other words, God gives divine communication to us by way of a vision. When the Lord gives His people a vision, we must respond in faith, and in so doing, will see the vision come to life in God’s timing.

Throughout scripture, God gave visions to individuals so that His Kingdom could advance. It was a vision from God Himself that caused the galaxies, our solar system, and our planets to be spoken into existence. Before something is spoken, it must be envisioned. The mind of our infinite God had a vision of a family to spend eternity with, prompting Him to create man. When man fell in the garden (Genesis 3:6) and sin entered the world, God then had a vision to redeem humanity and bring us back to Him! In Genesis 22:1-14, God gave the people of Moriah a vision of what was to come when Abraham attempted to sacrifice Isaac, his only son. When John the Revelator was exiled to the Island of Patmos and left for dead, what kept him alive was a vision that had to be recorded for the Body of Christ known today as the Book of Revelation.

Vision is the hope that drives people to do radical things for Jesus. It brings the impossible to a place of possibility through faith, much like the way King Solomon penned it when speaking of vision in the book of Proverbs:

Where there is no prophetic vision the people perish but blessed is he who keeps the law. ~ Proverbs 29:18

Vision is what keeps faith alive in the spirits of believers all over the world. When the weight of the world seems to fall upon the shoulders of the righteous men and women of God, it is the vision that keeps them alive. It is a vision that keeps us pressing amid life’s worst storms.

It has been said that all things are created twice. First, there is the mental creation that is dropped into our heart by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Following the mental image of every vision is physical creation that brings it to life. When we talk about having a vision, we are referring to the first creation. Likewise, when we make reference to casting vision, it is suggestive of the second creation that brings the mental image to the physical world, bringing the plans and purposes of God to their fullness. Before a vision can be brought to life, it must first be seen through prayer and revelation by the Spirit of God.

From the perspective of the believer, vision is the ability to clearly see and articulate where God wants us to go or what God wants us to do in any given situation or season. Vision is the bridge between present circumstances and future reality. At times, vision is like the proverbial needle in a haystack – we just can’t see it. Yet if we place a magnet onto the haystack, the needle jumps out. When the cares of this life attempt to choke the word of God out and make it unfruitful (Mark 4:19), the visions given to us by the sovereignty of God will keep us from tapping out in the presence of our enemies. Our magnet in a world of hay that is impossible to sort through is the revelation and vision that God has placed in the hearts of His children.

In August of 1964, under the backdrop of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the speech of his lifetime, and perhaps, the speech of his generation. His speech served as the very foundation of social change. I Have a Dream encapsulated the dream of generations of African Americans felt in their hearts. Dr. King was a leader, and I Have a Dream was his vision. What he saw was a better America. It was an America of equality, brotherhood, and unity that this world has never seen. His vision is the fuel behind the beginning of many other visions.

Today, many of Dr. King’s dreams have become a reality. This is the power of a vision. Every movement begins with a dream. The dream or vision is the force that invents, helps create, and shape the future.

What has the Lord spoken into your spirit? Has he spoken plans for a future ministry? A family? A new job? Perhaps God is trying to give you a vision that will further advance His Kingdom just as He did with His people throughout scripture!

Scripture teaches that the plan of God for His children are plans for welfare and a future that is hopeful (Jeremiah 29:11). There are many people who have received a promise from God and have even started to envision this promise coming to life in their mind. However, before their vision is birthed into the world, the enemy comes sowing seeds of doubt and discouragement into their spirits, possibly using people in their innermost circle or uncontrollable circumstances to sow those seeds. When the bad seed is sown, some begin to water it by dwelling on it; and before they realize what has happened, the vision that once charged their spirit and filled them with excitement and expectation is completely taken over and choked out by the small seeds of the enemy.

In the valley of the Guyandotte River, at the foothills of lush green mountains in Southern West Virginia sits the small town of Mullens. The people of this rural town are proud, and many are heavily anointed with the Holy Spirit. Along the banks of the Guyandotte in the middle of town is a small church from which I am blessed to have received my start in the ministry of God. So, while I don’t necessarily write from years of experience as a 23-year-old evangelist and pastor, I do write from a place of knowing how to keep a vision alive in a town that was once spiritually dead, physically devastated and deprived. It is through these experiences and insights of pastoring and evangelizing in a small region full of people who have all but lost their hope that I share how keeping a vision alive can bring a hurting community back on its feet. I long to see the day when our vision is caught by the people of this region, and the power of God changes the atmosphere there and across the nation!

I write this book to the people who are discouraged and have lost sight of the promises of God on their lives. It is my hope that through reading this book, God will grant each one his spiritual breath and restore his heavenly vision. It is my prayer that His people begin to chase after the visions that God has placed in their heart to see the gospel preached in their cities, in their communities, and within their families! Remember, it takes a vision to break through darkness! Your vision that the enemy calls small and insignificant can make a catastrophic impact on the kingdom of darkness when God is orchestrating the steps! It is the vision that keeps us Walking Tall in Babylon.

Chapter 1

The Curse Called "Used to Be"

I come from a town in West Virginia full of things that used to be. Mullens used to be a thriving town in this region. The people of the city used to be constantly casting vision to keep business thriving here. Churches used to be filled with people who were hungry for a move of the Spirit of God. As the region of Southern West Virginia has declined in nearly every area, it has all but sucked the hope out of the once vibrant, thriving spirits of its people. Now, many seem to be living day to day, simply trying to survive. As the spirit of hopelessness is transferred from one generation to the next, like an inherent disease that runs rampant through the body, the generations to come continually settle for less than what God has for them. The older generation is living off what used to be, clinging to the memories of a booming business community, vibrant churches, and visionaries who were always looking to make things better for people and advance the Kingdom of God. The young generation growing up in this region, however, are living amid what used to be, which is nothing more than the ruins and remnants of buildings that may never be used again. All the younger generation can say is, I can’t wait to get out of here!

Parents and relatives constantly encourage their offspring to get out of this area as quickly as possible, reminiscing on the memories of yesterday, while providing no foundation for the memories of tomorrow. Memories are great, but I am confident and convinced that God still wants to do a new thing (Isaiah

43:19) for the seed of this generation! God still wants to restore that which was lost. God still wants to make something out of a region that has nothing.

Isaiah 43:18-21 paints a picture for those living in what used to be:

Forget the former things;

do not dwell on the past.

See, I am doing a new thing!

Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?

I am making a way in the wilderness

and streams in the wasteland.

The wild animals honor me,

the jackals and the owls,

because I provide water in the wilderness and

streams in the wasteland,

to give drink to my people, my chosen,

the people I formed for myself

that they may proclaim my praise.

In this portion of the prophetic book, Isaiah is talking about when Babylon is going to be destroyed by God and Israel will experience a second exodus. What needs to be understood here is what has already happened to Israel. Let’s explore Israel’s used to be.

Starting in the book of Exodus, we see the people of Israel delivered from Egyptian bondage. Throughout their journey, they witnessed many great miracles, signs and wonders take place. From the ten plagues, to