The Revolution Brigade

The Lord has been giving me visions for some time about a unit of combat intercessors, spiritual special forces troops dedicated to foreign missions and warfare intercession on a global scale.  The unit, called SAPPER SQUAD, is a prophetically enabled team of intercessors who will use the tools of worship, prayer, fasting, and radical consecration to engage enemy spiritual forces and open the heavens over a particular LZ (landing zone). 

My heart is to marry the 24/7 prayer and worship movement with the missions movement to create a world-changing unit of combat intercessors who will break down strongholds and open the gates for the advancing church abroad.  The mandate is found in Isaiah 62: 10-

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.

For instance, a squad of SAPPERS would attach themselves to an international apostolic ministry.  Let’s say Pastor Greg was going to Haiti for a week.  The SAPPERS would deploy the week before, spend a week in country in prayer and fasting, tear down the strongholds over the area and bind any principalities that are causing trouble.  When the man of God arrives a week later, he finds an open heaven and no spiritual barriers to effective ministry.  This is world changing stuff, folks.

I’m asking every intercessory network to pray about their involvement with this movement, and at the very least cover it in prayer.  This is combat intercession, behind enemy lines, and it’s not for the faint of heart.

In Isaiah Chapters 64 and 65, there is an interesting dialogue between the prophet and the Lord.

Isaiah: Your holy cities are destroyed.  Zion is a wilderness;  yes, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.  The holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned down, and all the things of beauty are destroyed. After all this,  Lord,  must you still refuse to help us? Will you continue to be silent and punish us? (Isaiah 64:10-11)

The Lord Replies: I was ready to respond, but no one asked for help.  I was ready to be found, but no one was looking for me. I said, “Here I am, Here I am!” to a nation that did not call on my name. All day long I opened my arms to a rebellious people.  But they followed their own evil paths and their own crooked schemes. All day long they insult me to my face by worshipping idols in their sacred gardens.  (Isaiah 65:1-3)

This description that the Lord gives of the nation of Israel moves my heart to compassion because I recognize that it’s a description of our country in this hour.  The United States is now a post-Christian nation.  Our people attend to their own schemes and ignore the paths of God.  Our culture is consumed with idolatry (stuff), Baal worship (abortion, baby sacrifice) , and the Asherah religion (the culture of sex).

Importantly, I don’t believe God is turning a blind eye to the wicked in this hour.  I believe that He is waiting on a righteous remnant of intercessory warriors to rise up and pray in His justice.   Let it not be said of us that we never asked for help from the Lord, that we never looked for His glory and mercy.

We’re coining the term “Combat Intercession” here at the Revolution Brigade because we believe that it will take spiritual acts of violence to bring this nation into repentance before God.   It will require a lifestyle of absolute consecration and purity.  Prayer and fasting will be minimums.  It will require praying for a nation that largely doesn’t want to hear what we have to say.  In some cases, the church will even speak out against the radicals who will become the watchmen for a generation.  Even against the prevailing odds, these young people will stand in the gap, holding back the darkness from consuming our nation completely.

There’s a quote from George Orwell that seems appropriate:  “Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”  It’s a nod to our military forces, but it has application in the spirit as well.  Where is the generation that stands ready to do violence on behalf of our nation?

Part of what we’re doing here on this blog is casting a vision for what we believe is our expression of intercession.  You can log in to the forum and take a look at the extended version of the SAPPER vision, but the term is an acronym which stands for Stragegic Application of Prayer and Personal sacrifice Evoking Repentance.

In military terms, a SAPPER is a combat engineer trained to destroy enemy fortifications and clear the way for the infantry to advance.  Likewise, a Revolution Brigade SAPPER is a highly trained intercessor whose mission is to destroy strongholds, bind demonic influences, and prepare the way for the Apostolic ministry to come forth and change nations.

Due to the nature of this type of ministry, it’s absolutely essential that SAPPERS be selfless, radically devoted  prayer warriors who possess an over-the-top anointing for prayer ministry forged by living a fasted lifestyle in communion with the Lord.   Their mission is to go into a country….with just their squad…..and do spiritual battle with principalities and powers that rule over the region.  It’s not childs play.

Our vision is to begin mobilizing teams of SAPPERS in advance of the international missions trips of Greg Pusateri, our Apostolic father here at the Revolution Brigade, by the end of the year.  You heard me right.  The end of the year. Their mission will be to travel to whatever country Greg is going to, and to demolish any spiritual opposition to the Gospel that may be in place using the tools of prayer and fasting.

Ideally, each squad would have members who major in intercession, prophetic ministry, word of wisdom/knowledge, and discerning of spirits, as well as a helps specialist to coordinate the arrival and itinerary of the missionary “infantry.”  The model is taken from the military “Advon” team, which is an highly trained team of specialists who proceed any major military deployment into a foreign country for the purpose of preparation and intelligence gathering.

It’s warfare.  It’s missions.  What’s not to love?  Now, who is hard core enough to embrace that vision?