God's message to the church
"Repent, and come back to God and His Word! I will shake the earth, yes, it is now! There is going to be a reformation! I am doing new things! There is going to be a new song in the body of Christ! I have started the revival and the reformation, yes, it is started!"
Old Wells, Fallen Mantles, and New Fountains
By Michael Edds, September 6. 2008
I moved to a major US city in June 2000 to assume the position as Head of School for an interdenominational Christian High School. The school was new but had numerous problems, the most severe totally unknown to me. Prior to my arrival, a teacher had been arrested for involving a student in pornography. The teacher had been convicted and sentenced. Upon my arrival, the incident had become front-page news in the community. To say the least, I was shocked and stunned.
One night I could not sleep. I was very angry with the Lord for putting me into this greatly stressful mess. “Surely, I thought, I deserve better than this.” Around 2 am, I got up to sit on the couch and pout. In spite of my upset state, anger and disgust, the Presence of the Lord settled in the living room. God did not even pay attention to or address my c complaint. Instead, His presence was so strong that I physically trembled. He spoke these words, “Old Wells, Fallen Mantles, and New Fountains.” He instructed me to get my Bible. By that time, I too had set aside my complaint. His Presence was so great that I did not know if I could survive it.
I opened my Bible to Isaiah 35: 3-7: “The eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing, for IN THE WILDERNESS SHALL WATER BREAK OUT and streams in the desert. AND THE PARCHED GROUND SHALL BECOME A POOL and the thirsty land SPRINGS OF WATER.”
The Lord led me to Isaiah 41:17 -18, "The poor and needy seek water but there is none. Their tongues fail for thirst. I, the Lord, will hear them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will open rivers in the desolate heights and fountains in the midst of valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry land springs of waters."
Next came Isaiah 43:20,”I will give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to give drink to my people, my chosen."
I was directed to verse 19 of [Isaiah 43]: “Behold I WILL DO A NEW THING. Now it shall SPRING [BURST] FORTH. Shall all ye not know it?” The Lord was moving so quickly through the scriptures that I could hardly keep up. His presence was incredibly strong. I felt like I was floating.
Leaving Isaiah, the Lord took me to Joel 2:23: “He will cause to come down for you the rain, THE FORMER RAIN AND THE LATTER RAIN IN THE FIRST MONTH.”
Then Joel 2:28 was given which states: “It shall come to pass afterwards that I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH. Your sons and daughters shall PROPHESY, YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS and your YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS.”
Finally, Genesis 26:18 finished the scriptures that the Lord was rapidly giving me: “AND ISAAC DUG AGAIN the WELLS of water which they had DUG IN THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM HIS FATHER.”
The Lord revealed the meaning of this vision:
The Early Church experienced the fullness of God. They had the fullness, the gifts and revelation of the Holy Spirit. They were full of boldness, power and anointing. God turned the world upside down through them. The dead were raised, the blind received sight, the possessed were set free, the sick healed and the Gospel was preached to the poor. The anger of Hell was violently aroused. The more the devil persecuted and killed them, the more they multiplied and spread.20So Satan changed his tactics. By 300 AD, Roman Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Empire. What Satan could not do through persecution, he accomplished through promotion, position, power, prestige, acceptance and prosperity. They SOLD OUT! The Church backslid and humanity later fell into the brutality of the Dark Ages.
The purpose of each Great Awakening or the bursting forth of a spiritual well was to restore an element of truth that the Early Church possessed back to the church. Luther restored ‘the just shall live by faith’. Wesley, Whitefield, Edwards and the First Great Awakening restored repentance, inward holiness and “Christ in you.” The Second Great Awakening with Barton Stone at Cane Ridge in the West and Francis Asbury in the East brought restoration in society through evangelism, missions, and great social renewal such as abolition, child labor laws, and suffrage movement. The Third Great Awakening of 1857 restored the power of prayer. Azusa Street Outpouring of 1905 restored the in filling and gifts of the Holy Spirit. The Lord stated that He was going to reopen all of the “old wells” of revival in order to restore TOTAL truth to His church.
Fallen mantle s of ministry and anointing that rested upon the great men and women of God of old would be picked up and placed on godly men and women today to finish what was started long ago. They are the “Isaacs” that will revisit the old wells of revival and reopen them. The mantles of ministry did not die nor were they buried with Asbury, Wesley, Stone, Amanda Berry Smith and others. They have only been “on hold” until a generation would be born that could relate to them and pick them up. Isaiah 58:12 refers to them: “And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places, thou shall rise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.” The Lord said, “What once was shall be again.”
Malachi 4:5 prophecies that “I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” He said this was not just a generational reconciliation between the old and the young. It is a restoration of His people to the Faith=2 0once delivered to the Saints, the Faith of our fathers. The Lord said He was tired of the apostasy, deadness, programs, personality cults, plans and politics that have nearly destroyed His church. He is going to restore HIS church by returning the “Faith of our Fathers to their children (descendants) and the children (descendants) to the Faith of our Fathers.” The old wells will BURST forth and the fallen mantles will be picked up. This will be a “suddenly”. Isaiah speaks of it occurring in the desert places and on the barren heights. In other words, it will happen in the most unlikely of places. The Lord continued His interpretation of the vision by explaining to me that “NEW FOUNTAINS” would gush or break forth also.
Something that has never occurred in any Great Awakening or in any historic move of God will explode upon the scene in our day. Joel 2:23 speaks of God sending the former rain (the Old Wells of revival) and the latter rain (The New Fountains) in the SAME MONTH!!! In other words, all of the moves of God and fallen mantles from Pentecost until now will be reopened and picked up and combined with a totally new thing from God. It will literally shake the church and the world. HE WILL RESTORE A CHURCH WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE! He will not allow the church to go out defeated. HE WILL ARISE FOR HIS OWN NAME’S SAKE!
God has been preparing a “Joseph Generation on” that has been enrolled in the” School of Dung.” In this schooling, they have endured the pain of rejection, slander and isolation. The ‘Word of the Lord’ has tried them severely. They cry out, “God why? All I wanted to do is serve you. All seems to have ‘gone to hell in a hand basket’. It seems just the opposite of what You promised. I am lonely, the organized church thinks I am crazy, a fanatic, out on a limb. They have rejected me and hated me because of my love for you. WHY, OH LORD?”
God has been preparing and perfecting these Josephs in the darkness and in the prison houses of loneliness and isolation for a day and hour that they will be unleashed as a secret weapon on the kingdom of darkness. He has allowed all of these things to happen to them for their good. He has prepared a people that He can trust with His power, gifts, and anointing. In holiness, humility and boldness they will fulfill His plans in our day. They will give HIM the glory. They will give HIM total control of the coming Great Awakening. The door of their prison house of utter loneliness and rejection is about to open. Their “word” is about to come. That word is “the King has need of thee.” In a moment, they will be ushered from prison to position. In a moment, they will fully understand their long and severe sufferings. In a moment, they will be brought out into the light t of God’s divine destiny for them. God will greatly use them to lead the Coming Great Awakening.
Along with this final Great Awakening is coming Divine Judgment. Isaiah 35:4 declares, “Your God shall come with vengeance, even God with a recompense.” God is going to overthrow the abuse and control of man in His church. He’s going to take back the ’ship’ that has been turned into a luxury liner and restore her back to her original state: a ship of war. HE IS GOING TO TAKE BACK CONTROL OF HIS CHURCH!!! The Church is HIS bride, not someone else’s. Additionally, this nation is going to be greatly shaken.
The First Great Awakening preceded the American Revolution. Before the Second Great Awakening began at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, a massive epidemic of Cholera occurred. In its early days, the Third Great Awakening saw every bank in the nation collapse. This awakening was followed by the greatest disaster in American History when the nation was ripped apart and 600,000 Americans perished in the horrific War Between The States. A great earthquake hit California at the same time as the Azusa Street Outpouring. He is going to shake the Church and this nation. Only that which is of Him will be left standing.
A great hunger for repentance, seeking God, 20 seeking holiness and seeking truth has exploded within the ‘Joseph Generation’. They have studied, researched and sought out the Old Wells of revival. They intensely hunger for God to do it again! They cry out, “Just one more time, oh Lord!” Programs, politics, personalities, manipulation, and plans in the church sicken them. THEY MUST HAVE GOD! They MUST be in His presence! They are meeting in the homes, in the fields, in the woods, in their prayer closets and any place that they can totally seek His face. Their despair has turned into an all-consuming hunger that says, “Give me God or let me die.” GOD HAS HEARD! He is about to reopen the old wells of revival, He is picking up the fallen mantles and placing them on men and women, and He is about to do a new thing!
Every Awakening has incurred the wrath and persecution of man. When the Presence and holiness of God confronts mankind, they must make a decision for or against Him. When they choose to reject Him, they lash out and fight against His messengers. In the mid-1700s, the Baptist in Colonial Virginia were beaten, imprisoned, and killed for preaching the Gospel. The Methodist circuit riders were jailed, tarred and feathered, beaten, abused and martyred for the message of God. The reason there is little persecution against the Church in America today is that there is so little of the Presence and Message of God to confront mankind. The world has heard how to get r rich, how to prosper, how to have self-esteem, and to feel good. They have not heard the message, “Repent or perish.” They have not heard the anointed Word of God that demands a decision. Be forewarned, The Final Great Awakening will usher in a wave of persecution against the true Church of God. Old Wells of Revival are on the threshold of being reopened. Fallen Mantles of ministry are being picked up. New Fountains are rumbling beneath the surface and about to burst forth. Frank Bartleman (chronicler of the Azusa Awakening) once said, “To understand what God is going to do, we must understand what He once did.” The most incredible move of God will suddenly explode upon the scene.
Judgment and a great shaking are coming to the land and to the church. Persecution of the Isaacs and Josephs, the true saints of God will occur. However, they will be covered with such zeal and boldness; they will be like the Fathers of old: “And they loved not their lives even until death.” (Rev 12:11) God will harvest a holy remnant from this generation. He will have a church that is without spot or wrinkle, a pure bride for His Son. Be encouraged. Lift up your heads. Your God has come! “The King has need of thee!”
New Revivalists
By Cindy Jacobs - 23. August 2007
For the Lord would say “I'm raising up a new generation of revivalists such as the world has not seen. I'm re-digging the wells of Leonard Ravenhill,” says the Lord. “I'm re-digging wells today” says the Father God. And the Lord says that there is a shifting and a turning even in this season. “Even,” says the Lord, “a time of new beginnings; but new beginnings for harvest,” says the Lord. Some have prayed, and many have not seen revival. They've not seen. They've only seen the promise of what they hope God would do in their cities. They've only seen a glimpse of what could happen if a city was saved, but the Lord says, “I am coming in response to the prayers of generations.” Says God, “I'm coming and heeding their cries. Will not my city be saved? Will not Africa be saved? Will not Europe be saved? Will not South America be saved? North America?” And God says, “I am coming. I am pouring out. For I am visiting young revivalists who are going to be the evangelists of tomorrow. For the gift of evangelism, the office of evangelist, is being opened. The wells of evangelism are being opened all across the face of the Earth; those wells of revival. Those wells of pentecost are opening in Norway that affected England,” says God. “New wells. New wells for a new day. But this well carries with it not only revival, but reformation, societal transformation.” God says, “and this move of the holy spirit is not just going to touch souls; it's going to touch nations,” says God. “For I have heard your cries for the nations to be saved. I have heard your cries. Don't think that I am deaf,” says God. “Don't think that i cannot hear when you cry unto me.” For the Lord says, “I am getting ready to pour out water. My Spirit upon the dry and thirsty places, and the dry bones will live,” says God, “and the dry bones will stand up.” And God says, “I'm pouring out my spirit for household salvation,” says the Lord. “Those who've been the hardest, the hardest. Their hearts have been hard against me. I am coming with My Mighty Spirit that no person will be able to stand when this flood tide comes,” says God. “It's gonna be greater than tsunamis; for there is a spiritual tsunami coming to Asia,” says God. “There's a spiritual tsunami being poured out across the face of the earth.” And so the Lord says, “This is a time of rejoicing. This is a time of crying unto Me. This is a time where my purging, cleansing flood is coming. There is a fountain, filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins that comes to cleanse the hardest sinners souls,” says God. And so the Lord says, “Do not let your soul be discouraged. Don't be downcast. Say to your soul, ‘Have hope in God, for God is a prayer-hearing God,’” says the Lord. Amen.
A propetic Word
By Wendy Alec - 26 January 2007
Rory & Wendy Alec, God TV Founders
“Wendy – there are many, MANY OF MY CHILDREN WHO HAVE FOUGHT WITH ALL THEIR STRENGTH TO SEE THE PROCLAIMATION OF MY GOSPEL across the earth at this time. These are my sons and daughters who have stood and fought day after day with little encouragement, yet facing so much opposition. These are the ones who have stood against the taunting Goliaths of this present age every day of their earthly lives. And even though their arms are weary, still they fight on. These are my beloved warriors who fight each day in the High places of the earth. I would comfort them and encourage them.
FOR ALL WHO ARE WEARY – YOU WERE BORN TO THE BATTLE – YOU WERE BORN FOR THE BATTLE
For the Lord would say – “Oh, my child - I who have held you up with my strong right hand – I who have held you and undergirded you – I would say to you that even from before your conception I knew you – and I foreordained you to be born into the earth for such a day and for such an hour. You were born TO the battle – You were born FOR the battle.
I HAVE SEEN THE PRESSINGS AND STRETCHINGS
And yes, there have been seasons that you have said in your heart – Lord – I am weary – Each day I have fought in the battle – each day of my existence in your kingdom I have known war – And yes my child – I have looked down upon your life and your ministry for me and seen the pressings and the stretchings – the pressures and the persecutions as you have fought for My Kingdom. That even each day you have had to gird yourself with my glory and my strength even as one who goes out to war as the warriors of old. Yes – and even as my servant - King David was to me a Psalmist and a Prophet – yet he too was born TO the battle and he too was born FOR the battle.
EVEN AS I TOOK DAVID FROM THE SHEEPFOLD – SO I HAVE TAKEN YOU
And even as I took David from the sheepfold, when he was but a youth – for his love and his devotion to me and the things of my kingdom – and his worship had risen consistently before my throne – So even as I took my servant David from the sheepfold – yes – so I have taken you. For it was by no mans hand that I raised you from the dust and out of your ragged garments. And I placed a crown of gold upon your head. And I put a new song within your heart. And day by day, month by month, my child – I took you from the sheepfold. And I taught you how to WAR.
I AM BRINGING FORTH MY WARRIORS
For it is in this day and it is in this season that I bring my warriors forth to do battle. For even now my church stands at the brink of a new outpouring of my spirit that even will herald in a last day move of my spirit,” says the Lord. “But in this dispensation in the earth, the kingdom of God comes by violence to be wrested from the powers of darkness - and the violent take it by force.
And so NOW is the time – NOW is the season of the warrior – NOW is the time. NOW is the season of the rising of those of my children that I have hidden in the backside of the wilderness – in the cleft of the rock of my Son. Now is the day and the hour where my warriors come forth. For you were born TO the battle – and you were born FOR the battle.
And I have equipped you with my Holy Spirit and with my FIRE,” says the Lord of Hosts. “ And even as you have been trained up in the hard places and the wilderness of testings of faith and endurance.
Of storms and challenges and persecutions – these things that have been your foes in the past shall become your meat and your weaponry to fight in this coming season.
I AM CALLING MY WARRIORS TO WAR AND TO WORSHIP
For I have developed in you – my endurance – and I have grown in you fortitude and the strength of my Kings of old. And even as David fought with one hand and worshipped with the other – so too I am raising up in this day and in this hour – WARRIORS, WARRIORS, WARRIORS all across the earth – from the North and the South – from the east and the West – who will war with one hand – and worship with the other.
For I calling my warriors in this last church age to war and to worship – I am calling all who I birthed for the battle – to war and to worship – for the strength to endure – and to persevere – and to wage a mighty deathblow to the enemy shall come from your worship in the SECRET PLACE – in the cleft of the rock.
For it is there that even as I poured out my strategies to my servant David. And I shall pour out my strategies unto YOU.
THE FIRE OF MY PRESENCE SHALL FALL
So seek my face – my warrior – seek my face – Call upon my Name – Draw into my presence. And the fire of my presence shall fall and consume says the Lord – the FIRE of my presence shall FALL and CONSUME,” says the Lord, “ And you shall be girded with strength for the Battle. And you shall be girded with power and with might and with divine strategy to prevail against the gates of Hell.
Lift up your weary arms, my son, my daughter – make straight the crooked paths – For you were BORN to the battle – You were BORN to war.
God's message to Norway, Scandinavia, UK and Europe
By Tamara Winslow - at Skjærgårdsheimen, Norway
My fire and My presence will move across all this land as the boundaries have been set. I ordained it, says the Lord. From the coast to the heart shall I move – shall I prove Myself as God. Watch and see, says the Lord! Watch and see! Watch and see, says the Lord. For I am about to pour out of My fire all across Scandinavia, all across UK – all across Europe.
My fire will burn, and nothing will stop it, says the Spirit of the Lord! No man. No woman. I shall accomplish My will. And I will confront the conscience of this generation with My reality – with My reality, says the Spirit of the Lord.
For many generations – the cries and the tears of the people have been buried under tradition. But I am about to blow away that tradition by winds of the Spirit. And the cry of intercession – a travail – shall begin to move in city – after city – after city.
Norway shall be lit with Holy fires as I begin to speak – and as intercessors and watchmen catch the fire. No church, No preacher, No ministry, shall dictate what I am doing in this. Because this is going to be sovereign by My Spirit. I do not see boundaries in the natural, says the Lord. I do not see denominations. But I see what My will is – and it shall be done.
I will rise up watchmen, intercessors, ministerial singers. Those who will lift up their voice in praise and prayers. I will lift it up, says the Lord. And the fire will burn. And I will touch the generation that has never heard My Word.
There is a move of the Spirit that will begin in the young – even those young as three and four years old – and it will be given to convince those that have been bound by tradition of the reality of My presence.
There is a fire that will spread – and ministries that has been hidden and prepared for this time, will come forth, because they have been in the furnace of affliction. They have been in the fires of testing for such a time as this.
Tamara Winslow afterwards sings this song:
For such a time as this, you are called into the Kingdom. For such a time as this, you were born. How can you hold your place, when your people need release, awaiting for the hope of a new morn. For such a time as this, you were called into the Kingdom – and for such a time as this, you will shine. Not demanding, or in pride, but completing the Bride. Yes, it is for such a time as this.
