Ark of Grace with Amanda Grace A Bear Attack, Heavy Losses, and a Word on Resting Through the Storm You’re tired…But God Has a Word for You! Join Amanda Grace LIVE Today at 5:30 PM ET for an urgent prophetic message! You’ve been struggling...but God isn’t done! Share • Subscribe • Set Your Reminder! Partners: https://arkofgrace.org/ministry-partners Amanda’s Books: https://buff.ly/MeZPdxG Need Prayer: https://arkofgrace.org/prayer #prophetic #propheticword #christianmotivation #faith #prayer Amanda Grace returns after a brutal ten-day stretch, a bear attack on her sanctuary, the loss of three animals and her husband Chris's hospitalization, to teach on spiritual warfare, the signs she sees aligning before the midterms, and how believers can rest in the Lord through crushing seasons. Opening Greetings and a Prayer of Protection Amanda Grace opens her October 16, 2026 broadcast from her office, welcoming viewers from Michigan and Buffalo, New York to Alberta, the Bahamas, Bermuda and New Zealand, and thanking her Ark of Grace moderators for their work. She tells the audience she has much to share about the past ten days, including an update on her husband, Chris, before leading an extended prayer invoking Jesus Christ and the Ruach HaKodesh. She asks that angels surround the broadcast and that every plot, scheme, curse and act of witchcraft aimed at her team be dismantled, disarmed and cast back to where it came from, and that nothing pass through her mouth that does not first pass through God's throne. Coming out of prayer, she reports that Chris is now home from the hospital, calls this a critical hour, and promises to walk through everything that has happened to her family, staff and animals before turning to a wider prophetic word. A Bear Climbs the Fence at Night Amanda Grace recounts the night a 600-pound black bear scaled a tall fence into the animal pen while she was an hour and a half away in Windham, New York. She says the Lord stopped her in prayer hours earlier and told her to intercede for sanctuary staffer Sarah's safety, and Sarah later ran out barefoot alone when she heard the goats scream, confronting the bear as it attacked. The bear kills a female goat, Dawn, and badly lacerates another goat, Ray, while a third, James, suffers lighter cuts. Directing the response by phone, Amanda Grace has her sanctuary manager, Ricky, open every truck door and turn up the volume so she can pray aloud, commanding the bear in the name of Jesus Christ to leave and never return. Ricky and Sarah report the bear turning and walking off the property as she prays, which she credits to angels holding it back from Sarah. Police, Vets, and an Electric Fence Amanda Grace describes calling the Dutchess County Sheriff so her farm vet could safely reach the property, and deputies arrive within four minutes carrying high-powered rifles to track the bear into the woods, where they find her with a cub and choose to drive her off rather than shoot. Dr. Shirkey of Bentley Veterinary in Stanfordville races out at 1:30 a.m. to stitch Ray's deep wounds and treat James, and both goats are later transferred to Cornell Large Animal Hospital, where the attending doctor calls Ray's survival miraculous and says black bears rarely scale high fences to attack livestock this way. Shaken, her staff begins staying at the house in pairs, and a 20,000-volt electric fence goes in on Monday. Amanda Grace and Chris, whose health begins to falter under the strain, leave Windham and drive home Sunday, with staffers Lance and Kayden staying overnight in case the bear returns. More Losses Across Ten Days The difficult stretch continues, Amanda Grace says, when her eighteen-year-old cat, Sadie, goes into shock early Monday morning and cannot be revived at the Guardian animal hospital; the team prays over her and says goodbye before she is euthanized. On Tuesday, Chris suffers a continuous seizure that will not break, and Amanda Grace calls 911 to have him hospitalized and placed on heavy medication to stop it. By Thursday she hears from Dr. Hunter that Grace, a painted horse being treated for laminitis at a rehabilitation barn, has deteriorated so quickly that her bone is about to break through; the team anoints and prays over Grace by speakerphone before the horse dies. Amanda Grace says the Holy Spirit had warned her on October 7th that a season like this was coming, and that some of her staff are experiencing a spiritual attack of this magnitude for the first time, learning to rest in the Lord even amid exhaustion and grief. Reading Signs Before the Midterms Turning to teaching, Amanda Grace preaches on being sober and alert from 1 Peter 5:8, Ephesians 6:12 and James 4:7, telling viewers to submit to God first and then resist the devil with hostile, standing resistance. She says the Holy Spirit told her on October 7th that the two weeks between 9/11 and the midterms carry heightened spiritual warfare, pointing to what she calls evidence in the culture: Chipotle's Summon the Spirits tour and a National Geographic issue on the History of Witchcraft and the occult, both of which she argues are designed to desensitize the public to the demonic ahead of the election. She then reads a news item about actress Selma Blair's arraignment over a Delta flight outburst, plays a TMZ clip of the screaming, and walks through a numerology linking the flight's JFK destination, Selma Blair's January 19th court date and the two-year mark of President Trump's term, urging viewers to pray for her deliverance and salvation. Storms, Words, and an Olive Oil Teaching Amanda Grace reads a sign in three storms, Rachel, Simon and Isaias, saying the names together spell sheep, listen, Yahweh is your salvation, a message she ties to Matthew 7's parable of houses built on rock and sand. She reads earlier words from the Lord, dated March 26th and May 30th, describing a coming shake-up inside the administration and the exposure of hidden secrets among conservative leaders, and teaches that crushing, like the crushing that releases olive oil, precedes a greater anointing and the ability to withstand pressure without being consumed. She closes by confirming that her events at The Gathering and in Arkansas are postponed rather than canceled because of Chris's hospitalization, asks viewers to keep interceding, thanks Bentley Veterinary and Cornell for their care of Ray and James, and encourages everyone to pray Ephesians 6, Psalm 91 and the Lord's Prayer nightly before wishing a Shabbat Shalom and promising to return live early the next week.