Lakeland, Florida Revival?

Anticipation

Anticipation is the word for today. Many of us are standing ready with anticipation of what God is going to do next, and can we please, please, please, somehow have a roll in it. Lord??? It doesn’t matter if it is personal or corporate, a touch from God in a supernatural way is what we all need and desperately seek, isn’t it?

I have written about love, unity, testifying, obedience, transformation, prayer, and many other topics, but intimacy with God is my favorite because even as I write, His intimate presence seems to push thoughts (as they come) onto the keyboard, and all is sealed according to His presence within me.

Columns of Life

It is a concentrated goo-like intimacy with God that I anticipate – a presence that is thick like honey but full of power and light and purpose…without burden. I have seen this in my spirit… a presence of God interacting with people in specific geographical locations that God referred to as “My Domains” and “My Camps” in a vision several years ago in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

This is a great hour to live in New Hampshire, though we are yet dry as a state (spiritually speaking). Anticipation in my heart is intensifying as revival closes in on us. It has already started, and many us have been broken time and time again as God teaches us to yield to Him, and lean on Him - depend solely upon Him.

Dependency

The unusual things of God make many uncomfortable, but God has never been “usual”, has He? The more we learn about God, the more we realize how little we know Him, and, the more we enter into His presence, the more we need to go deeper, and the dryer we seem to get if we lose the sense of the intensity of His presence – even though we sense Him within us. We simply need more and more of Him, don’t we?

Sound like a “Holy Spirit” addiction? Yes, it most certainly is in some ways, but yet it is healthy and right because God provides us with a supernatural balance of both dependence and independence. Dependence destroys the enemy’s strongholds on pride, religion, exclusivity and bigotry. Independence builds confidence and helps to personalize our transformation processes. Both are required to build a strong individual and a strong corporate body. Please join with me in anticipation of what God has in store for us here in New Hampshire, and all up and down the east coast.

Leviathan

A few years ago, I was faced with having to battle with a territorial enemy. A few warriors were sent to me, and a mission became evident. Take the land – reclaim it for God’s kingdom. This mission was not given to me directly, but it was placed in my care, and Net2Church became engaged in a battle to claim the Monadnock region for the Kingdom of God.

What we did was dangerous and unknown. We were all clueless of what God was asking from us as a team. The only expert we could find to guide us was a man that I had never heard of – Todd Bentley (Fresh Fire Ministries). Todd’s writings on the topic was all that we could find to guide us in our understanding of what and who we were facing. Who is Leviathan? The battle was so feared by some intercessors that some pastors/intercessors warned us that we might not be covered in prayer well enough to survive. (Few people knew about the magnitude of what we were doing)

When the mission was complete, I asked those who were risking the most, “What do you think this was all about?” The answer came back, “Dave, we were laughing all morning, we get it now – It was all about what you had been saying – it was all about love and getting us to the point that we understand love more closely…”

Swirl Winds of Love

Fast-forward a year or so, God showed me a holy tornado in my spirit. Swirling winds and lights contained in a very small area near the front of a church sanctuary about halfway between the ceiling and the floor, perhaps three or four feet wide. Again, I asked Him what this was, and I understood Him to say these will be called “holy tornados, swirls of lights, and winds of love”.

It wasn’t long after that when a man testified in my church that he had seen angels in a swirl of lights, like a tornado, and another man by the name of James Levesque had seen something similar and was scheduled to visit the White Horse Café’ in Vermont as an itinerant speaker (naturally, I had to go).

My good friend Pastor Lee Johndrow (New England Flame) of Springfield Vermont assured me that both Todd and James were his friends and none of what I said seemed too far-fetched. Lee was part of the worship team that night in Hartford, Vermont.

Heaven’s Portal

Lee later invited me to travel to Connecticut for a visit at the Apostolic Resource Center where a speaker by the name of Bob Jones was scheduled to speak. I had never heard of this Bob Jones – but I went along because I sensed that God was in it. There were about 130 Christian pastors and leaders present that day. Each one was prayed for individually by Bob Jones as he silently requested that each person would have heavenly experiences, encounters with God in His kingdom. It was the best service I attended that year – one of my all-time best experiences watching another man minister to others in silence.

But, please, understand that this was still over a year ago. What about today?

Lakeland Florida

Lee called me a few weeks ago – “Dave, have you heard about what is going on in Lakeland Florida?” “No”, I sheepishly replied. “Todd Bentley and James Levesque, and Bob Jones are in Lakeland, and revival is breaking out!”, he said, and added a week later, “I’ve been glued to the Internet, watching the videos every night – asking God if I should go!” …Lee sent me an email from Lakeland Monday night.

The Net2Church ministry has always been about unity. When we come together in relationship, God delivers a purpose, each of us carrying a small piece of the puzzle. I don’t think that it is a coincidence that Todd, James, Bob, and Lee have each independently (and usually unknowingly) had a major role to play in my ministry work. To see them all together in Lakeland Florida causes me to wonder what Lee might be bringing back to New England – The New England Flame just might have taken on a whole new meaning!

Wait with ears to hear

Our Role in revival is to be like Christ. He said, “I do what I see my Father doing.” We need to ask God to guide us, and wait with ears to hear. Should we go to Lakeland, or to another place? Should I prepare a place to come home to – for those that traveled away? Each of us has to ask the same question that Lee asked – when I see you move, Father, will you send me to be with you there, Lord? Will I carry a torch back home with me if I go? What is your will, Lord?

Blessings!

Dave