In a recent time of prayer, I had a vision of standing before double doors. As I opened one set of doors, I came before another set of double doors. I sought the Lord for more understanding, and I heard Him say, "This is the season of double doors and double favor." The Body of Christ is in a massive place of shifting and transition. To those who can endure the shifting, the shifting is positioning them for promotion. Over the last several weeks the Lord has been highlighting the numbers 22, 222, or 2222. The number two prophetically represents double. Two scriptures that are important and being highlighted in the season is Daniel 2:22 and Isaiah 22:22, Daniel 2:22 ESV says, "He reveals the deep and hidden things." Isaiah 22:22 TPT declares, "I will place upon his shoulders the key to the treasures of David's palace. He will open doors that no one can shut, and he will shut doors that no one can open."  The year 2020 is a prophetic sign in the natural of the double being released in the spirit. 

The shifting in this season is positioning us for fresh encounters and new revelation, because the books of Heaven have closed one chapter and have opened to a new chapter. The opening of this new chapter is releasing new mantles, a new wave of emerging prophetic and apostolic voices, new prophetic songs and anthems for the Body, new prophetic words and revelation for the Body of Christ. As we press into the hidden and deep things of God we will acquire the hidden treasures. Its the Isaiah 45 mandate. Isaiah 45:3 TPT says, "I will give you hidden treasures from dark, concealed places, and wealth waiting in secret places."  His glory being released over your life is releasing a greater measure of influence and favor, steward it well.

Don't stop at the first set of double doors, go through the next set and next as they come. Each set of double doors is inviting you into new realms of God and interacting with the angelic. It's the key of David. Each realm in God has angelic assistance to co labor and operate with to navigate these realms. Many of you are going to begin to notice greater angelic activity and encounters, because the Lord is assigning new angels to your life, ministry, businesses, and assignments. The angels are releasing new blueprints in how to build and release the Kingdom in this new era. How you built and functioned in last season will be different in this season. Shift to what Heaven is releasing and you will be successful and flourish.

Not only is this a season of the double doors, but I heard the Lord say, "Its a season of the double portion anointing." For those who have gone through much warfare, and those who have been slandered and disgraced, you shall receive a double portion of blessing. Isaiah 61:7 declares, "Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion;  instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion; they shall have everlasting joy." Rejoice because you're coming into a season of double honor and joy. The Hebrew word for double in this verse is mishneh which means, double, copy, second, repetition, twice as much. I prophesy you're going to have twice as much honor and twice as much joy than you had before!

I've also noticed in my dreams lately prophetic mothers and fathers in the Body have been showing up in my dreams. It's a prophetic picture of the Elijah's and Elisha's coming together for the double portion spirit to be released. In 2 Kings 2:9 Elisha asked for a double portion of Elijah's spirit. The Hebrew word for double in this scripture is shenayim, it means dual, twice, couple double. There's an exchange happening in the realm of the spirit. As the emerging, the Elisha's, honor the prophetic mother's and father's there will be a double portion of their spirit released to the emerging that will catapult them.


Prophet Madeline James

Have you been feeling the heat and pressure lately? Welcome to promotion season! I've come to learn over the years, promotion is not really about the next position or title, its about the heart.
It' s about where your heart is, and where it will go. Proverbs 4:23 says, "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." What this scripture is saying is, what is in your heart will lead and guide you. It will direct you, whether you realize it or not. Sometimes we'll be lead a certain direction and not always realize, or will have a certain reaction because of what's in our hearts. Other versions of this verse above say, "Guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life."The Hebrew word for heart is leb. It means inner man, mind, will, seat of emotions and passions. The Hebrew word for the flow of springs is towtsa'ah. It means outgoing, boundary, a source, issues. What are the issues or outgoings of your heart?

When we don't guard or check our hearts, our flow or outgoing source can become contaminated. God will allow the testings to come to expose whats there. Sometimes we see it as cruel, but really its His love protecting us. He's allowing the hidden things to be exposed so it doesn't give the enemy an open door in our lives in that moment or down the road. David prayed in Psalm 139:23 TPT, "God, I invite your searching gaze into my heart. Examine me through and through; find out everything that may be hidden within me. Put me to the test and sift through all my anxious cares." On a daily basis we have to invite the Holy Spirit to search us, because he is the spirit that searches all things. When we don't allow the Lord to test and sift us, we can't be proven. To be proven one must be tested. To walk in the new we must be sifted and tested.

Another reason why we must guard our hearts, is because the pathways of God reside in our hearts. Psalm 37:31 TPT says, "The ways of God are in their hearts and they won’t swerve from the paths of steadfast righteousness." The pathways of God or the pathway of life is found in Him. We become more aware of Him and His pathways when the eyes of our heart (Ephesians 1) becomes illuminated. When we have unresolved issues, emotions, or things that cloud the eyes of our understanding it affects the way we see. Some of you have been wondering why you haven't been dreaming like you used or discerning correctly. There's some things you need to resolve in your heart in this season. And it will also cause us to go down pathways God did not mark out for us. There is only true satisfaction and resurrection life when we follow His ways, Psalm 16:11 ESV declares, "You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy, at your hand are pleasures forever more."

In this season of promotion, acceleration, and ascending to greater heights, it's important to discern the snares and traps of the enemy as you go higher. By definition a snare is a trap, a trap that uses a noose, entangled, or any type of trap. The Lord gave me a prophetic dream a couple months ago that describes this season. In the dream I was staying at the house of a prophet, and there were others also residing there in the dream. I woke up in the morning in the dream, and went up the stairs. At the top of the stairs I was talking to one of the other prophets of the house, when suddenly we started to smell something awful. I turned on the hall light, and it revealed there was dog feces everywhere in the hallway and up the stairs. I checked my feet to make sure I hadn't stepped in the feces and I haven't. I was relieved.

Prophetically in a negative light, dogs can represent those who turn on you or those who try to tear you apart with their mouth (words). Dog feces can represent offense or stepping into offense. The stairs in the dream represent going higher, and the hallway is a place of transition. In the dream I had no idea there was dog feces all around me until the light was turned on. The enemy tried to set traps for me in the darkness to step into, but the Lord guided each step so I didn't step into offense. As you ascend higher in this season of promotion, be discerning of the snares and traps of the enemy. Everyone will not celebrate or be happy about your promotion. The enemy will try to trip you up by getting you offended by those who are offended at your promotion. Don't take the bait. Go low, Stay low, Stay in love, Stay unoffendable. In this season of promotion the Lord is testing your heart all the way to the top. He's allowing the word of the Lord to test you, refine you, and prove your character. Until the time that Joseph's word of prophecy about his brothers came to pass, the word of the Lord tested and refined him (Psalm 105:19).



Prophet Madeline James

As we have crossed over into September, I have kept hearing the Lord say, "A new normal has been set." There has been a clashing of swords over many of you in this season. The reason why the fight has been so fierce and intense, is because the enemy has been fighting your destiny. Your place of expansion and living in God's fullness. This is a word for those who have remained pure, faithful, and diligent in the midst of great of great backlash. You're stepping into a season where the Lord is going to openly and extravagantly reward you. Hebrews 11:6 AMP says, "He rewards those who earnestly and diligently seek Him." This is the season the Lord is openly rewarding what has been done and sown in secret (Matthew 6:4).

The Lord is promoting the pure ones, those who's hands are clean and hearts that have remained pure. Psalm 24:3-4 TPT declares, "Who, then, ascends into the presence of the Lord? Those who are clean, whose works and ways are pure, whose hearts are true and sealed by the truth, those who never deceive, whose words are sure." Right here David gives us keys to ascending in the spirit and positioning ourselves for promotion. Don't look to man for promotion. When we seek man for promotion, they also have the ability to take the platforms away that were given, and have the authority to shut the doors they have opened for others. The word of God declares promotion comes from the Lord and not man (Ps 75:6-7), and when God opens the doors no man can shut them (Daniel 2:22). When you allow God to promote you, he will cause man to pour out favor over your life.

What does it mean that a new normal has been set? The Lord kept highlighting Psalm 18:19-20 TPT to me it says, "His love broke open the way and he brought me into a beautiful broad place. He rescued me because he delights in me. He rewarded me for doing what's right and staying pure." Many of you have been used to staying in the background, behind the scenes, snd unseen. In this season you're going to find yourself in the front, where many will see and be blessed by what you carry and what God has developed in the secret place.. This will also require you to carry yourself different, and think of yourself differently. In other versions of Psalm 18:19 it says, "You've brought me to a spacious place." When God brings you to your spacious place, you can't carry the small place mentality or the poverty mindset.into your new. Carrying old mindsets into new places will cripple your ability to really enjoy what the Lord has opened up to you.

His love has broken open the way for you in this season, for those who have remained pure and have done right even when it was hard. You're going to find yourself in opportunities, circles of people, and tables of influence you could never have imagined. This is your new normal. Your new standard and place in the spirit has been upgraded, now its time to upgrade your expectations and mindsets. This is your season of favor and promotion. He has brought you to a spacious place, The place of exceedingly, abundantly, above all you can think or imagine. God has set a new normal for your life, His normal is becoming your new normal.


Prophet Madeline James  

Recently the opposition has seemed to intensify over the past few weeks. We are on the brink of  great breakthrough and stepping into new seasons, callings, mantles, etc. Opposition is not always a bad thing. Opposition positions you for what's next, and for promotion. Often times we can discern the next step by the measure and the intensity of the opposition, and what the opposition is coming against. There has been a great stretching in this season, because what is next is going to require a greater capacity to walk in the fullness of the Lord. There has been pressure on all sides, Many of you have been wondering when will the pressure lift. Don't jump the process too soon, the Lord is using it to make and mark you for what's next.

We have to learn to discern what's the enemy and what is God allowing. In Luke 4:1-2, after Jesus got baptized, its says,"The spirit of the Lord drove Jesus into the wilderness." It's in this place Jesus was qualified (proven), equipped, and armed for what was next. Sometimes the spirit of God will lead us to a place of threshing and testing to prepare us for our next season. When it was time for Jesus to leave the wilderness Luke 4:14 TPT says, "Then Jesus, armed with the Holy Spirit's power returned to Galilee, and His fame spread throughout the region." The spirit of God led him in and led him out. When we allow the spirit of God to lead us, there is grace and strength released to us to go through, and then come out armed. What the Lord has been taking you through is producing new weapons and strategies for the next season, Psalm 144:1 declares, "Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle."

Not only is the Lord training you to war in a new way, He's building a tenacity and a fierceness in you. God allows the opposition to come to build our spiritual muscles. So often we contradict ourselves by saying God I want to go to new levels, but when the "training" comes we fold under the opposition. We have to be a people that know and learn how to stand in the face of opposition. We have to stop running away from the hard things. We're forgetting who the Lord is in our lives, and how we have the DNA of victory and overcoming in us. Often times we don't realize what's inside us till the Lord allows the opposition to come. God allows those moments to happen not so that we are defeated, but so we can learn to overcome. If we never overcome anything then we'll never have authority to help others or nations breakthrough.

Strength doesn't come by standing still, it comes by pushing back and not giving up. Psalm 84:7 says, "They grow stronger and stronger with every step forward," Strength in this verse is the Hebrew word chayil. Chayil means strength, might, efficiency, and force. Strength is released when we keep stepping forward. The Lord is waiting on you to make up your mind and heart. We all have the choice to go backwards, stay in the middle, or go forward. The strength in Psalm 84 is talking about a realm of God strength, not a human strength. We are supernatural beings and need a supernatural God strength to accomplish all that He's called us to do. When we learn to lean on Him, and wait on Him, He renews our strength (Isa 40:31). The Hebrew word for renew in Isaiah 40 is a constant renewal, it never runs out.

Be encouraged, what has happened in this season God is using to build a supernatural strength, might, and tenacity in you. It's the chayil of God! The chayil will cause you to overcome and do what you didn't think you could. It will cause you to have the advantage over the enemy, just like Elisha outran the chariots. David said in Psalm 18:29, "In your strength I can crush an army, with my God I can scale any wall." The key is walking in His strength not our strength. Set your face like flint and determine in your heart to keep pressing forward. As you lean into God's chayil, His strength is going to cause you to go from strength to strength as you advance in this hour.


Prophet Madeline James

In light of what some prophetic voices have spoken or declared over California, I believe the Lord is not done with California, and California's best days are ahead. On the morning of July 19, 2019 as I was waking the Lord took me above a map on the United States. The state of California was highlighted to me, it came forth out of the map, and a star was highlighted in southern California. Suddenly I was there in Southern California where the star dropped, although I'm not sure of the exact location, I sense it was around Palm Springs and Los Angeles. In the dream I translated to a fairgrounds possibly in Orange County. I was with an angel named Lisa (means oath/covenant of God), and with a known prophet from Southern California, Holly Watson.

We were getting ready to leave the fair to go and drink the new wine of the spirit that was being released. As we were leaving this mother and father brought their daughter to me, she was demonized. The parents of the girl told me they had taken her every where to get help or deliverance but no one could help her, no minister could deliver her. This demon had taken control of her mouth and tongue. I laid my hands on the girl and began to declare and speak deliverance over her until the demon left. I began to tell the family I had recently released this word over a congregation, where the Lord was changing their taste buds from bitter to sweet. The people would taste and see that the Lord is good (Ps 34:8).

I believe California is on the Lord’s heart in this hour. This little girl and the fairgrounds in the dream represents a territorial spirit, and the mixture of witchcraft in Southern California. I believe this spirit the girl had represents bitterness, hatred, anger, death. The word of God says there is the power of life and death in our tongues (Prov 18:21). This little girl reminded me of the story in Matthew 17 about the epileptic boy the disciples could not deliver. Matthew 17:19-21 (AMP) says, “Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, “Why could we not drive it out?” He answered, “Because of your little faith [your lack of trust and confidence in the power of God]; for I assure you and-most solemnly say to you, if you have [living] faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and [if it is God’s will] it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. [But this kind of demon does not go out except by prayer and fasting.]” The reason the disciples could not cast out the demon, was because it represent ed a governmental or territorial spirit when you break down the Greek. The disciples needed to pray and fast more to grow their faith and authority. I believe this is a key to dealing with this terroritorial spirit in Southern California. There is a cry of deliverance being released from the people. The Lord is wanting to use His prophets to release deliverance to the people and the land. When the people get free the land can get free. Where there has been a bitterness and a bitter taste in Southern California, He’s turning the waters from bitter to sweet, and the people will begin to taste and see His goodness like never before in California. The Lord is pouring out the new wine and new awakening. When the Lord brought the state of California before me it was completely geeen. Prophetically the green represents growth, and prosperity. Where there has been barrenness and broken economy, the Lord is bringing restoration and prosperity to California’s land and economy.

The little girl in the dream also reminded me of minister Joshua Mills’s daughter, Liberty, who has been fighting for her life with issues concerning her tongue. Her name is Liberty. The Father wants to release liberty in Southern California that will ring throughout the state.

The angel in the dream represented God’s covenant with California. He has not forgotten His promises over California. His covenant speaks a better word. There shall be another move and a greater awakening than what California has experienced before.


Prophet Madeline James

I'm sure many of you have noticed in the last few years there has been an increase of warfare, and opposition. This will continue to increase as we approach the last days, but the Lord wants us to be strategic in our warfare. The enemy is strategic and evolving his tactics, we must do the same. The Lord recently reminded me of a dream I had in the fall of 2017. In the dream I entered this church that represented the Church at large. I was dressed in a military uniform as a lieutenant, and I was reporting to a general who is a known prophet in the Body of Christ. As I entered the sanctuary this prophet and another prophet were strategizing about the war and battle at hand. When the general allowed me to speak I reported from the battlefield that the prophets and prophetic people were getting taken out. We were losing so many because, they are getting caught up in the second heaven warfare.

The Apostle Paul tells us in Ephesians 6:12 (TPT) the type of war we're up against, "Your hand-to-hand combat is not with human beings, but with the highest principalities and authorities operating in rebellion under the heavenly realms. For they are a powerful class of demon-gods and evil spirits that hold this dark world in bondage."  We must remember we are in a spiritual war that requires spiritual weapons and strategies. Logic doesn't work in this realm.

To understand warfare a little better, let's take a look at the different realms we can operate in. We are made up of body, soul, and spirit. The body correlates to the earth realm which is the first heaven (Deut 28:12). Our soul which is our mind, will, and emotions is correlated to the second heaven where the angels and demons fight (Daniel 10, Eph 6). And our spirit correlates to the third heaven which is where the Lord dwells (2 Corinthians 12:2). Depending which realm we operate in, we are subject to the law and rules of that realm. For example, in Genesis 32 we read about Jacob wrestling with the angel of the Lord. The reason Jacob was able to overpower the angel because the angel had come into the earth realm where man had been given authority.  In Daniel 10 we see a glimpse of the second heaven warfare, The prophet Daniel had been fasting and praying for revelation, and discouraged because there was no answer yet. The angel finally comes to Daniel and says, "Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words. The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I was left there with the kings of Persia" (Daniel 10:12-13). We see here the second heaven is where the angels and demons are warring. And lastly, the third heaven is made reference to by Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:2 (ESV), "I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows."

In warfare, to be effective we must recognize what realm we're warring in. As a believer we should always be fighting from the third heaven, the place of glory and victory. So often we allow the enemy to pull us out of character into that second heaven warfare, and we get pounded with mental warfare and our emotions go all over the place. Ephesians 2:6 (ESV) declares, "He raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus." Being seated with him means we are above the second heaven warfare and principalities, That place with Christ, is a position of authority and triumph. When we allow the enemy to pull us from the place where we're seated, to his turf, we'll loose every time. When we fight from the place of glory, in our identity as a son and daughter, and the authority of Christ, the victory is guaranteed every time.

When we stay stuck in second heaven warfare, its the place of striving and fighting in our own strength. You don't have anything to prove. You don't have to fight on our own, His power empowers us with everything we need to be victorious. In Psalm 18:33-35 (TPT) David shares his warfare strategy,"Through you I ascend to the highest peaks of your glory to stand in the heavenly places, strong and secure in you. You’ve trained me with the weapons of warfare-worship; now I’ll descend into battle with power to chase and conquer my foes. You empower me for victory with your wrap-around presence.Your power within makes me strong to subdue." To be effective and victorious, we must allow the Lord to train us and mantle us for the warfare we face,

You are anointed to face and overcome your warfare. Don't allow the enemy to keep you stuck in the second heaven warfare and mental warfare. You have to fight in the spirit not in your logic. Our weapons are not carnal but mighty and energized with divine power (2 Corinthians 10:4 TPT). Many are getting taken out because they get caught up in a battle the Lord has not authorized them or empowered them to fight. Keep the battle on glory's turf. Come up higher Beloved, there's a higher way and different level of thinking to your battle. When you keep the battle in the glory, you have the advantage against the enemy.


Prophet Madeline James

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During a time of recent worship I was pressing in for more, and suddenly I began to see in the spirit several mantles being released to the earth. I asked the Lord what He was showing me, and He said, "I'm releasing new mantles of glory upon My people." I believe this is a continuation of the Isaiah 60 mandate God is releasing over His people. Isaiah 60:1-2 (TPT) declares, "Rise up in splendor and be radiant, for your light has dawned. Look carefully! Darkness blankets the earth, and thick gloom covers the nations, but Yahweh arises upon you and the brightness of His glory appears over you." For those who are willing to grab it, there are fresh mantles of glory being released from Heaven. Fresh can be defined as not previously known, new, unprocessed, not altered, different, pure. God desires for His people to walk in a new glory they've not known, or that the world has not experienced yet. Despite what may be taking place upon the earth and in the Church, the glory of God will continue to increase. Habakkuk 2:14 (ESV) declares, "For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea."

What is a mantle? Mantle is term we see in the Bible used and worn by prophets. The mantle carries a supernatural realm and authority, and everything the prophet would need to carry their assignment out. Mantles empower us to carry out the assignments the Lord gives us. Many have been in a season of transition for the past two years, because the Lord is birthing new assignments. One of the things that hinders us from stepping into new seasons and new assignments, is keeping our mantles from past seasons and assignments. New seasons require new mantles, and new anointings.

We're stepping into new era of glory. Don't miss the mantle the Lord is releasing for your next. The mantle of glory you wore in previous seasons won't do in this new season. New mantles release new influence, a greater measure of faith, and greater measures of wealth and inheritance. Isaiah 60:3-6 TPT, declares the nations will be attracted to the glory on your life. In this passage Isaiah tells us to lift up our eyes, look around and believe. And Isaiah 60:5 (TPT) says, "The fullness of the sea will flow to you and the wealth of the nations will be transferred to you." The warfare and the contending you've been going through over the past few years has been for the more and the increase.

As the Lord mantles you for this new season, own your mantle and wear it with confidence. Stop dulling down or trying to hide your shine, because it may upset others You were made to shine, and its your time to shine. Go forth with your new mantle and release His glory!


Prophet Madeline James



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As we begin the second half of 2019, the pace is going to shift and pick up. Many of you have been experiencing a lull the first half of the year. In that waiting time the Lord has been enlarging your capacity to carry what you're going to begin to manifest the second half of this year. For things to manifest in the natural, it must first be birthed in the spirit. Each prophetic word is like a seed the Lord puts in our spirits. The seed has to grow and mature, so it doesn't die prematurely. Each prophetic word released has an assignment. Isaiah 55:8-11 (MSG) declares, “I don’t think the way you think. The way you work isn’t the way I work. For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think.Just as rain and snow descend from the skies and don’t go back until they’ve watered the earth, Doing their work of making things grow and blossom, producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry, So will the words that come out of my mouth not come back empty-handed. They’ll do the work I sent them to do, they’ll complete the assignment I gave them."  What you've been experiencing these past few months is the birthing pangs of these prophetic words. For many of you, the pressure you've been feeling is the pressure of the "baby" that has dropped into position to come forth. The head is crowning in the spirit.

Many are pregnant with promise, but prophetic words just don't happen. We have to partner and co labor with Holy Spirit to see the manifestation of His promises in our lives. The Holy Spirit is your midwife. Romans 8:26-27 (MSG) says, "Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God."  Don't give up now, you've come too far. There is grace and help to birth what the Lord has been growing and developing in you.

Many of you feel like Mary, and can't believe what you're carrying. When the angel of the Lord came to Mary in Luke 1, she had a hard time wrapping her head around what Gabriel just told her. Gabriel told her she would carry and birth Jesus. She would be the mother of God Imagine hearing that. She asked Gabriel how can this be? He told her not to fear and worry, and that, "Not one promise from God is empty of power, for nothing is impossible with God" (Luke 1:37 TPT)! Some of you feel like Mary, have been asking the Lord how can I birth what you spoke over me. As the angel told Mary, I encourage you today there is power in the promise the Lord has given you. Mary may not have understood how it was all going to work out, but she came into agreement with the promise. Mary told Gabriel, "Then Mary responded, saying, “This is amazing! I will be a mother for the Lord![ad] As his servant, I accept whatever he has for me. May everything you have told me come to pass" (Luke 1:38 TPT). Mary accepted the promise and partnered her faith with the word to activate it. Some of you have come out of agreement with what God has spoken over you. It's time to come back into agreement with the word over your life, Partner your faith with each promise, and watch them become activated in your life again. It's not too late. As Gabriel told Mary, "There's nothing impossible with God." 

Position yourself as we enter the second half of this really. The pace is shifting and picking up. Jump into July, and get ready to go full speed ahead. Door are opening, opportunities are coming, promotion is being released. The new is now!


​~Prophet Madeline James