The Vision

It's amazing how God can use things that you have written in the past to encourage you in the now. Today the Holy Spirit reminded me of a journal entry that I had written when I was 15 years old. It was December 11, 1999 and it's called "The Vision." I had been praying and interceding over my school and then later on, my city. I don't know when I started writing this, but it finished when I was 15. I don't know if I would call this a prophesy, but I believe that whether it is or not; God wants to move and shake in this city and region.


"As I walked up to Mrs. Boone's house, she was laughing and crying uncontrollably. God is moving across the small poor town of _____ like never before! Revival is breaking through. People are getting healed, the chains of sin and death are being broken, uncountable people are getting saved... murderers, thieves, idolators, liers, atheists... are falling on their faces before the throne of God and crying out to Him for the mercy and grace that they longed for.
God is moving like a rushing river, flowing into people's lives and using them to be bold witness for Him. It's an uncontrollable, unquenchable, unimaginable wildfire that keeps spreading and quenching hearts non-stop!
The devil is attacking the people constantly and with great force. But His power doesn't even come close to comparing with the power of the Almighty God! Anything that he attacks God's people with becomes powerless and useless.
Walking on through this city, I can ultimately see the drastic change of the souls of people... you can see it in their eyes... a void that had once been empty, lonely and sorrowful... was now totally filled up with Jesus!
People's hearts are screaming out saying. 'Jesus! Jesus! I want more and more of Jesus!' It's the fire of the Almighty God shut up in their bones that they can't stand to keep in! (Jer. 20:9). Everything within them is crying out to God and totally reverent to Him.
Mediocrity no longer rules and reigns over people's lives. It isn't even an issue that is heard about anywhere.
By now, the devil and his demons are petrified and trembling. They've tried everything in their power that they can possibly do, but nothing is working. Even their most powerful and greatest schemes and lies that have worked on people in the past, weren't working now, and were labeled, 'useless.'
People are starting to be true to God instead of themselves. Their own 'salvation' was leading them no where at all. The thrills of life lasted for short amounts of time, but when those thrills and rushes were gone, they became weighed down with the cares of their lives, and were 'trapped in a bottle,' waiting for someone or something to set them free.
God's people are tired of going through the motions, and not really knowing why they exist of why they even deserve to exist. They now know that there is more to life than drugs, alcohol, gus, girls, clothes, sex, money, depressing lives. But God's awesome power is so incredibly overwhelming, that even the precious people that the devil thought he had a stronghold in their life, are being set free from their past, and totally renewed and redeemed by the precious blood of the Lamb... Jesus Christ!
By now, the religious people are also petrified and filled with anger. There were no 'lambs' keeled over to sacrifice (I don't know where I got that from =), carved images of Mary, Buddah or burnt incense. They say, 'This must stop! You freaks are going way too far! Way too extreme! You're talking to so many unclean people who haven't done any good deeds! Just who do you think you are are, anyway??' But the religious people thought, 'But what ever can we do to stop them? There's way too many of them to control! This whole world is going crazy with this Jesus stuff! These psycho people! Ahhh!' (wow, I was dramatic at 15 =)
So many people have had to face the truth. The truth is, that God is moving and there is no stopping Him and His people! And the question is: Are you going to jump in this mighty move of God or in mediocrity, just making it in life. People's compassion, love, joy, peace, honesty, trust, devotion, respect, commitment, patience... for each other is growing so much stronger. Marriages are becoming inseperable and more and more broken hearts are being mended and the anger, regret and bitterness that people anchored for so long is totally being stripped away.
The signs and wonders, and dreams and visions (Acts 2:17-21) of the end times that God spoke about over 2,000 years ago are becoming reality. All 'hell' is breaking loose in people's lives, yet they never ever give up and keep leaning on the everlasting arms of Christ Jesus. Spiritual warfare is a daily issue in people's hearts, but Jesus always has the victory! And He is fighting the battle for us, and we as always, continue to WIN!!!"



God, I pray for an outpouring of your love, mercy and grace on this city and region. Last week, I had a vision of a straight line of wildfire coming up from Florida and targeting Kalamazoo. God, You are shifting things in the spirit and we don't want to miss it.
I don't think 'sin management' will work anymore. We need You, God. I pray that it won't just be something that will come and go... like Azusa Street. I pray for something to stick. Why do we pursue our flesh and our own pleasures? Why do we think that that aching inside will be filled inside with something other than the love of God? Eve thought that God was holding out on her and we have followed in her example. You are not holding out on us, God. You are good and your love endures. Your mercies are new every morning, every day. GREAT is Your faithfulness. I like Jason Upton's song that says, "I don't know what to do, but my eyes are on You." Not in a despair, but in DESPERATION for God. We're hungry for You, God, to move. Use the upper room this summer as a place of filling the bowls of heaven and come KING JESUS, like the rain. And if it doesn't happen that way, do what You will whatever that looks like.