The Revolution Brigade

I had a dream the other day about Grace Community Fellowship.  In the dream, there were members of the church out on the road on highway 16 setting up a checkpoint.  As the checkpoint was opened, I began to see vast quantities of refugees travelling down the road into Starke.  Many of the refugees were very heavy laden with baggage, and were barely able to continue walking.

As the refugees passed the checkpoint, some of the members of the fellowship were standing by.  These folks would remove the baggage from the refugees, usher them into the church, and help them to eat and rest.  After a suitable period of time, the refugees would re-emerge from the church and continue on their way in good health.

Clearly, the dream highlights a restorational mission for our church.  We are seeing an increase in this ministry through the various recovery ministries, jail ministries, and pastoral ministries represented in our congregation.  Maybe this will serve as confirmation for those good folks involved.  Keep it up.

I recently had a prophetic experience where the Lord showed me a hand gun.  It was a revolver with a spinning cylinder style chamber.  On the barrell was written the word “ministry.”  I watched as the Lord began to take people and form them into bullets and place them in the chamber of the revolver.

After the people had been formed into bullets and placed into the chamber, the Lord would spin the cylinder Russian-roulette style and point the gun into a group of people.  When He pulled the trigger, the “bullets” would go forth and cause a revival to break out.

I believe that this vision speaks of ministry teams of several people.  I believe that the Lord is saying that the days of the personality cult in ministry are over.  The season of men building ministries in their own name has drawn to a close.  It is my belief that the next generation of revivalists will not be well-known preachers with huge platforms, but rather teams of apostolic warriors who are submitted to the cause of Christ.  They will be nameless and faceless and rather than ambitiously building a ministry will be committed to advancing the Kingdom.

I believe that the Lord will utilize different team members under different circumstances to effect powerful ministry.  This is what the spinning of the cylinder symbolizes.  I also received interpretations for the following components of the gun itself:

The sights: Control the direction of the bullets.  This is the role of prophetic counsel to the apostolic teams of ministers who will take part in the next wave of revival.

The cylinder: This is the place of prayer.  It is the sole abode, qualification, equipping center, and desire of those who will be endued with power from on high. It is the chamber in which the combustion will take place that propels people to their prophetic destiny.

The gun powder: This is intimacy with the Lord.  This is the combustible force that will fill the place of prayer (the chamber) and propel the projectile (the spirit-filled minister) down the barrel and into the heart of the people where they will be a catalyst for revival on an epic scale.

but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God. (1 Peter 3:4)

I was in my prayer time this morning and the Lord showed me a vision.  I saw a sports car driving down the road.  The car looked new.  It had a nice paint job, fancy spoiler, new tires, aluminum rims, the works.  I said to myself, “that’s a nice car right there.”  As the car drove down the road, all of the people on the side of the road turned to look as it zipped past in all it’s glory.

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Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? (Song of Solomon 6:10)

I sat and began reading this verse in my quiet time this morning, and the Lord began to open up revelation to me about the end-time prophetic army which is the fully consecrated bride of Christ.  He began to show me attributes of that army from this verse:

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I had a vision at the small group meeting last night.  I saw a field of dead flowers.  I had the impression that the dead flowers represented our churches, people, etc. They had been exposed to the environment (sin, work, the world) until they shriveled and looked completely dead.  Then, I watched as the Lord began to take potted plants that were full of life with lush green leaves and plant then into the field.  The dead flowers began to come back to life as the Lord planted more and more potted plants.

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This is a prophetic vision that I had while attending a prayer meeting at the Watchman Prayer Furnace in Gainesville, FL last Friday night.  I was in a daydream-like trance when I saw the vision.  It went a little something like this:

I saw a tribe of people (some of whom I recognized and with whom I have already shared this vision) dressed in grass skirts.  They were wearing face paint and dancing around a fire pit full of logs (with no fire).  There were spectators who were watching the dance.  The spectators kept pouring glass after glass of water on the fire pit.  The tribe paid no attention to the spectators, and simply kept praising their God and asking for fire from heaven.

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I had another dream last night.  This one was extremely detailed, but I never woke during the process of receiving this vision.  I always like to tell the circumstances of my dreams and visions, just so people have a reference for the level of prophetic surety that I’m dealing with.

During the dream, I saw a unit of soldiers walking down a road.  The soldiers were dressed in battle fatigues and had red horses painted on their helmets.  The soldiers reached a mountainous region where there was no road, and they took out explosives and began blasting a road.  Then, they reached a river.  Within minutes they had built a bridge over the river and were moving on to the next objective.  They were extremely competent combat engineers and they were building a highway through the wilderness.

All around these soldiers there were enemies shooting, setting ambushes and booby traps, and causing as much chaos as possible.  This didn’t effect the engineers at all, and they simply kept building the road despite the conflict around them.

I don’t know if the Lord showed me the red horse as some sort of symbollic gesture, or just to illustrate the point that these were combat engineers.  In the Air Force, we have a unit called the “Red Horse.”  They are amazing engineers.  We landed in Afghanistan and slept in the dirt for months.  When the Red Horse Squadron showed up, they had a small city built within hours, complete with showers, chow halls, quarters, the whole nine yards.  It was the most amazing feat of engineering I had ever seen.

The Lord quickened the scripture from Isaiah 62:10-11 in my heart after the dream:

Go through, go through the gates,
Clear the way for the people;
Build up, build up the highway,
Remove the stones, lift up a standard over the peoples.
¹¹Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth,
Say to the daughter of Zion, “Lo, your salvation comes;
Behold His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.”

Again, the reference to building highways and removing obstacles.  I’m open to some interpretation and feedback.

I was trying to sleep last night and the Lord awakened me with a vision.  I’ve heard His voice on this subject before, and have some understanding of the concept, but apparently I didn’t take it seriously enough.  This was an open vision.  I was awake, but I was…ehm, “transported”….maybe a bad word, it’s hard to describe.  Anyway, my eyes were open but I wasn’t seeing my bedroom.  I was seeing this vision.  I wanted to share it here because it definitely bears relevance to what the Lord has called us to do:

I saw an Army dressed in dark clothing moving across America.  They had in their possession flaming swords, and when they opened their mouths locusts flew out.  Everywhere this army went, they left a wide path of total destruction.  Houses were burned.  Crops were consumed.  People were left in the wreckage and looked totally miserable and destitute.  It seemed as if this army had power to destroy everything: Houses, families, economies, nations, hope, and the future.

The Lord spoke to me and said, “this is the Total War that the enemy is waging against your nation.”

Then I saw another army rise up, beginning on the coasts in California and in Florida, Georgia, and all the way up through Virginia.  At first the numbers of soldiers were small in comparison to the soldiers of the evil army, but they were not afraid.  These soldiers eventually began to move from the coasts into the Midwest where they joined together to form a huge army.

This Army began to follow the path of the evil army, and the destruction and chaos that it had left behind.  Everywhere that the army went, the destruction and chaos stopped.  There was restoration of all things.  Economies began to flourish.  People were restored.  Families were brought together.  Righteousness was established in the land.

Finally, the righteous army caught up to the evil army and began to consume them.  It looked as if they righteous army walked right over the evil army and simply kept going.

The Lord said, “This is the Total War that you are called to wage.”

A few observations:

Again, the age of the average soldier in the righteous army was very, very young.  Some as young as ten years old, maybe younger.  They had no faces except for blazing eyes that looked like fire.

The army seemed very, very coordinated with officers calling cadences enabling every soldier to be in step as the army advanced.  I believe this indicates that the Lord will raise up coordinators who will help to train and facilitate the cohesiveness of the army.

I welcome thoughts and comments.