The Wedding Feast

We feel the sense of a great preparation, like the preparation and business that goes on for a great wedding feast. The warriors are preparing to go to battle and there is a feast for their strengthening, but there is also a feast being prepared for the victory they will win, for victory is sure. Things are quickly gaining momentum and being put in place. Final touches are being made in the set up of a great providential plan. The wisdom of God is working and piecing things together, preparing for a climax. In all things God is in control. His plan is working. He puts His troops into place. Do we see His work? Are we aware of His providence? Stretch your horizon of faith and expand your thinking with the revelation of Jesus. Obedience to the Spirit will open doors.

Suspension Bridges

There was a large suspension bridge with three arches. The arches represented the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. There were also many smaller bridges, which were ministries and spiritual leaders. These bridges were disconnected and chaotic, but then the bridges began to unite together in the larger bridge.

A suspension bridge is the strongest bridge design known. They can span a distance of 7,000 feet. The strength of the bridge is due to the cables being anchored in bedrock. The pillars that uplift the cables are also planted on bedrock. God is preparing the Church to reach further than we have before and to carry the weight of a great harvest like never before, but first we must be firmly planted on the Rock.

There are many ministries doing their own thing. They fail to bridge the world to God, and they actually bring more confusion to people who are looking for God. Until we come together as one on Christ we will not reach the world for the gospel well. God is calling His people to begin to build their lives and ministries on Christ. Christ will become the true unifying factor for the Church and the only one who can sustain the move of God that will come. In the same way that the strength of a suspension bridge is not in the bridge itself, but in the rock, so we must learn to anchor in Christ. The works of man will not hold God’s Kingdom.

God is not looking for individuals and independent ministries, but team leadership. Congregations will begin to work together. Suspension bridges were originally made with chains rather than cables. If one link of a chain is weak it will be the weakness of the whole chain. One bridge was completely damaged when just one chain broke. Cables will remain strong even when many of the individual strands are weak. God is moving His people from chains of command to three fold and five fold chords of ministries working together for the kingdom.

Lessons from suspension bridges:

1) The weight is carried not by the bridge, but by the rock anchors.

2) Iron cables are strong under pressure.

3) The bridge must be able to flex and adjust as it is being built.

4) Cables can have weak links yet still be strong.

The Relay Race

A song kept resonating in my mind, “My greatest fear is regret, my greatest fear is walking in bitterness.” I began to pray and ask the Father what was going on when I had a vision of a relay race. The Father said, “This is the race of my kingdom.”

If we don’t understand the kind of race we are running we will run the wrong race and be disqualified. Many in the church are running a sprint rather than a relay. They ran fast and hard, left their opponents in the dust, but when the time came to pass the baton to the next generation they had nothing to give and the next generation had to go back to the beginning. Then I saw a runner with a baton about to pass the baton to the next generation, but when the next runner saw him coming he was threatened and began to run away from him. Once again the race was lost.

We must understand that in the race of the kingdom we do not run the race for ourselves but for others. We are not in competition with one another but rather we are working for one another and for the generations to come. If we do not understand the importance of the baton we will run largely in vain and suffer regret for what was lost.

Prophetic Song

The light must come for there to be an awakening. The light will reveal what is in the dark, and the light will purify the bride. God is coming like a magnifying glass that will burn away impurities and reveal what is in our hearts. This must happen for there to be an awakening. This must happen for God's people to walk in power. He is preparing us for a move of the Spirit. The bride will be filled with Spirit and power. Things are out of alignment, but an alignment is coming. God is aligning people and ministries so that His Spirit can flow unhindered. Things are shifting in the spirit. Things are shifting into alignment with God's will.

New Dreams Coming

I woke up around 3:30AM this morning after a short dream. In the dream I was being escorted around a shanty town that was on the shore of a beach. There was a river emptying into the ocean and there were numerous one room shanty's scattered all around the beach. Some had some organization, as they were roughly lined up into the semblance of streets.

But, the person that was escorting me drew my attention to a small plank of wood in front of the opening into each of these shanties. These looked as if they were welcome mats, but my guide told me that those were Head Stones. The owner of each shanty had been buried under the doorstep of their shanty.

Then I woke up.

As I laid there thinking about that dream. I heard the word. ABORNING! Aborning is a term used when something is born but is in danger of quickly dying.

Then I heard Him tell me that the Shanty's were the dreams of people that had dreamed dreams of ministry, but the dreams had died. He said that the only thing wrong with these dreams was that most of them were not big enough. Instead of believing Father for dreams the size of Mansions, they had dreamed of Shanty's, and so those dreams died.

But, He kept on saying, “Aborning, Aborning, Aborning. We are going Aborning.” I caught the sense that He was saying this as a Shepherd. I got the sense that there were multiple ewe's giving birth, and He was going to deliver the Lambs. That these Lambs were HIS Dreams being born in the minds of those that were dreaming big.

Fire In My Bones

God is releasing a fire on the earth, and it is the passion of Jesus to see it released. This fire will be a fire of prayer and a fire of preaching the word of God. This word is a prophecy about days to come, but more than that it is an invitation to step into it and embrace the fire.

A fire of prayer

There are few that would be considered prayer warriors, but of them even fewer have stepped into a spirit of true intercession and supplication. There is a fire for prayer that is being released on the earth, and it will burn in the hearts of people so that they will truly weep for the things that break God’s heart. A people will feel God’s heart so deeply that they will travail with Him. With them there will be no days saying, “I do not feel like going to the prayer meeting today.” They will burn, and they will NEED to pray. I saw people who could not make a prayer meeting one day, and they rushed to find a prayer meeting the next day because the fire burned in them. God has gripped them with His heart.

The fire of Preaching

Jeremiah spoke of a fire that was shut up in his bones. He could not hold in the word of God because it burned in Him like a fire (Jeremiah 20:9). He did not need to worry about fear of man. A fire burned in Him and he could not help but speak the word. A fire is coming and prophets will arise who will speak the word with fire. They will come from the place of burning prayer. As we touch the Father’s heart of burning prayer we will be filled with burning words.

Ask for a true spirit of intercession to be released in you, if you dare. Ask for the fire.

Dream of Chico

In a trance I saw Chico before me. I heard someone say it was a peaceful city. Then suddenly a very vivid picture of a large military cannon and a troop of soldiers appeared before me. I knew that this picture represented the reality of the perceived peace of the city.

What the world perceives as peace is not the peace of the kingdom, but is actually aggressively antagonistic to it. God desires to bring true peace. His peace can only come as the prince of peace sits on the throne. There is a false peace movement arising in the earth, and despite its name it will be antagonistic toward the kingdom of God.

God has a true destiny for our cities. It will not be found in politics, science, or good intentions, but as the kingdom of God invades the earth. The only true peace will come from a revival of the reality of heaven on earth and the establishment of the throne of the Prince of Peace. The only hope for our city is for the people of God to awake to who they are called to be, and then to live that reality in every part of culture. You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world.

A Third Great Awakening

Jonathan Edwards was a central leader in America’s first great awakening, a revival that shook and transformed New England in the eighteenth century. He prophesied, according to scripture, that it is God’s intent to release a revival that would touch the ends of the earth. In his words it would be a revival founded on a movement of prayer, and one of the great effects of this move would be to turn Israel back to God. Jonathan argued that since we have yet to see such a move of God, and that it is mentioned in scripture, then it is yet to come.

This reminds me of the prophecy of Amos 9:11-

“On that day I will raise up the Tabernacle of David which has fallen down, and repair its damages. I will raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old, so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the gentiles that are called by my name,” says the Lord who does this thing.

The tent of David was set apart for the sole purpose of non-stop night and day corporate worship and prayer. Amos prophesied that God would build this tent again and the results would be a global harvest. Then in verse 14 and 15 it is prophesied that Israel would once and for all return to the Lord. God is building in His people a culture of continuous corporate prayer from which to launch His last great assault of His Kingdom in the nations. A great awakening unlike the earth has seen is coming, but first the people of God must become a people of prayer.

It is interesting that today God is planting houses of night and day prayer around the globe. It is interesting that Israel once again has a nation for God to bring them back to. Now is the time the people of God to shine their brightest.

The early church walked in the true victory that Jesus said they would, overcoming sin, healing the sick, and walking in supernatural love. Many today are discouraged that this is not common in their religious experience. The church of the last days will be even more glorious than the first century church, but we must learn their key, “the key of David.” The early church was built from the place of daily corporate prayer. They lived in the “Tent of David.”

They started with daily corporate prayer. This was the first thing they did:

Luke 24:53- And they were continually in the temple praising and blessing God.

They continued this tradition daily. It is not symbolic, or an issue of the heart, for they did it at the temple:

Acts 2:46- So continuing daily with one accord in the temple…

They guarded and protected this custom as their first action. Notice how prayer is before even teaching the word:

Acts 6:4- But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to ministry of the word.

True anointed preaching backed with power is fueled and set on fire with prayer, and God is rebuilding His house of prayer in these days. We live in the days of the fulfillment of the word of Jonathan Edwards, that a great awakening would come such as the world has not seen. It begins as a culture of prayer and intimacy is built, and the house of God once again becomes a house of prayer for the nations.

Ephesians 1:16- …I pray for you constantly,

Ephesians 6:18- Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere.

Colossians 1:9- So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you.

Colossians 4:2- Devote yourselves to prayer…

1 Thessalonians 1:2- We always thank God for all of you and pray for you constantly.

Colossians 4:12- …always laboring fervently for you in prayers…

1 Thessalonians 3:10- night and day praying exceedingly…

2 Thessalonians 1:11- Therefore we also pray always for you…

2 Timothy 1:3- …as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day (the restoration of David’s tent).

There are copies of the word by Jonathan Edward online if you want to view the entire word.