Rania’s trip to Sweden and Norway was a wonderful blessing, and the Lord really surprised her in many ways.

The first leg of the journey was in Sweden, where Rania spent the first few days meeting with leaders of a prayer movement there, who shared about what God is doing in Sweden, and how He has been using initiative prayer and prophetic journeys, repentance on behalf of the nation, and special prayer gatherings to bring a real breakthrough in different areas. Rania’s time in Sweden was wonderful and effective. After meeting with the leaders, Rania went on to visit her family, and seeing her nephews, her brother and his wife again was also refreshing. It was a beautiful family reunion.

Afterwards, Rania travelled on to Norway, where she was invited to be part of the Stord Conference, a strategic and timely gathering, which took place on the Island of Stord in the western part of the country. This gathering was part of a series of different prayer initiatives, ship cruises and prophetic acts organized all over the country because of the thousand years of Norway’s independence as a nation. The Body of Christ and the prayer movement had started all these different initiatives to cover the nation in prayer and restore the heritage and stand on the values of the constitution and the heritage of Norway being founded as a Christian nation.

The Stord Conference, which Rania was part of, was a wonderful gathering, and the Holy Spirit and God’s presence was tangible there. There were around 170-200 participants in the meetings. During the three days of the conference, God was moving and releasing prophecy, declaring the restoration of Norway back to its Christian roots. For Rania it was a blessing to be able to speak there twice. During a long one-hour session, Rania spoke about heritage, and she also shared a vision she had seen during the conference and released it over the nation, and the Lord was really touching people. (To look at the vision, click here.)

It was a powerful time of sharing this vision. While Rania was emphasizing the difference between heritage and inheritance, how God works with the inheritance, and how we can secure it, she was speaking about God’s destiny for Norway. Beside this, Rania also shared about the situation in Israel and the prophetic assignment during Purim, where they were standing together, Jew and Arab, repenting and decreeing a decree, breaking the covenant of death and replacing it with a covenant of life together as one family in the Land of Israel. Rania spoke about the importance and the power of reestablishing the covenant, and the upcoming trip to Poland, where the Jewish and Arab family would be endeavouring together on a journey of prayer reestablishing the covenant during Shavuot, the time when the Book of Ruth is traditionally opened. After Rania spoke about these things, everyone united in prayer for Israel and for Gaza, praying for both the Arab and the Jew and the salvation of God’s people both in Israel and in Gaza.

During the Stord Conference, Rania also shared a prophetic word for Norway, which God gave her for the thousand years of independence. God first gave this word to Rania in February during the national prayer conference in Grimerud, where He told her that His timing for Norway is now in the thousand years.

God spoke to Rania, as she was sitting in the room praying, while snow was coming down outside. The Lord spoke to her about how the snow comes down to clean and purify the land. He also spoke from Isaiah 55:10-11, where it says that like the snow coming down, the Word of the Lord is going forth from His mouth, and it will not return to Him void, but succeed and prosper and fulfil all God’s purposes. God spoke to Rania about the snow and then whispered in her ear about the thousand years. He then took her to Zechariah 3, where it speaks about Joshua the priest, and says, “‘If you will walk in My ways, And if you will keep My command…” (verse 7), “And I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day” (verse 9). As Rania was pondering on that during the conference in February, the Lord then spoke to her and said that He would remove the iniquities of the nation in a day. Then she went back to 2 Peter 3:8, where it says, “with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” Then it really clicked in Rania’s heart. It says in Zechariah 3 that “I will inscribe on the stone that I will remove the iniquity of a nation in a day.” So, this was a thousand years in a day, the thousand years of anniversary for the nation of Norway. That was a promise that God had given that He would remove the iniquity of a nation in a day, “if you walk in my ways and keep my commands.” This was a very important word that resonated with many of the leaders’ hearts.

Incredibly enough, one of the prophetic leaders in Norway named Howard Sand had initiated a project of a stone, which he had made a replica of. The stone is located in Moster Island, half an hour from Stord, where the conference was, and it was the actual stone, where King Olav, the first king of Norway, said, as he bowed on it, “We will bow toward the east, and we will bow for Christ. The king will be a friend of God. The king will be a friend of the people.” That was his declaration a thousand years ago, when he bowed on that rock. This stone they believed was the foundation of the values of Norway, and it was here the Christian nation of Norway was born. It says in Isaiah 28 that they wanted to establish this, like I will put a chief cornerstone in Zion. It is, indeed, not about the stone, but about the values and the cornerstone, Jesus. The establishment of the values of the heritage of the Christian nation of Norway, how it was founded, and the covenant of this king.

As part of the project, Norwegian believers want to make a replica of this stone in order to take it all over Norway and place it everywhere to decree that the nation is returning to its foundations, to reestablish and stand on the values of the nation again. It was truly a renewal of a covenant. Rania did not know about this project, but God spoke to her about the verse in Zechariah 3, where it says, “I will inscribe on a stone that I will remove the iniquity of the nation in a day.” It was stunning and shocking for Rania to hear this from the Lord, but the people were really encouraged, because it speaks very much about what they were doing. Ultimately, they ended up inscribing and engraving all over the replica of the stone the same words from Zechariah 3:9, “I will inscribe on a stone that I will remove the iniquity of the nation in a day.” It was a very powerful time, with lots of confirmation from different people telling Rania how much this had touched their hearts and confirmed in their spirit that God will, indeed, visit Norway, and in a day, there will be revival and mass salvation within the nation!

After finishing the Stord conference, they all went together to Moster and prayed in a very old church, near where the stone is, and during their time of prayer and breaking of bread, there was a renewal of covenant with all the participants in the conference. They also bowed towards the east on the stone, and renewed the covenant with the nation of Norway together with the remnant of the Norwegian family that was present. Afterwards, they went up to the cross on the mountain, where they also prayed and broke bread, declaring that the nation of Norway belongs to Jesus, “No king but Jesus over Norway!” It was a very powerful time.

Rania then had two days in Bergen, where she had been invited by a friend to speak in Credo Church. Around 100-120 people were gathered, and it was a wonderful evening of prayer and intercession. Rania shared about what is taking place in Israel right now during the war. She also shared her vision from the Lord and released the prophetic word God had given her for Norway, like she did at the Stord Conference.

Finally, Rania went back to Sweden for another six days, where she, together with a group of Messianic-Jewish leaders, had been invited to be part of a retreat with Pastor Linda Bergling in Shohamra. It was a wonderful time of refreshment, prayer and intercession, and deepening relationship with the Swedish family and the Messianic-Jewish leaders who were present. Sunday morning, Rania and all the rest of the leaders who were at the retreat, participated in a church service at Arken Church, where Rania was asked to speak for 15 minutes. She gave a word about God’s heart for unity between the Jewish and Arab family and walking together. She gave a short report about the war, emphasizing how we should keep our hearts and love for one another that we may not break covenant during this hard time with Israel being nine months in war with Hamas, how we should pray for both Arab and Jew as one heart in love and covenant, like Ruth and Naomi did. They made a covenant together to stand together in love for one another, and from that Obed was born, and with him a whole generation of worshippers was born. It was wonderful to have time to reflect on all what God is doing, and to pray and fellowship. It was indeed a very refreshing time for Rania right before her trip to Poland, which was a very strategic trip with six from the team at HOPE and another five from the Messianic-Jewish family, who went together.