Prophetic Warning: Christians Must Be Ready for the Battles Ahead

Excerpted from Glory River: Waters to Swim In.

This preparation encompasses what He is about to do, and is a reminder for us not be shaken, because we are part of a Kingdom that cannot be shaken. We must set ourselves and stand in faith, in order to understand and discern the seasons and to grab hold of His promises.

I was in my office, early on a Sunday morning, when Holy Spirit said to me that we would be entering a time when we were going to have to reset our faith and proclaim the Word of God. We had recently been part of a prayer strategy for our nation that would lead to a time of great shaking and a resetting of our covenant roots. Being in a time of the river flowing, it is crucial that we have soaked ourselves in His Word, our intercession must increase, and our decrees over the prophetic words we have been given must accelerate.

It is vitally important to hear what Holy Spirit is saying in preparation for the times when your Christian faith must be lived on these principles. I’m not just trying to inform you, but to also prepare you to stand strong to win great victories.

I experienced a vision several years ago and feel I need to share it now. It is in its “now” moment and is strategic in its revelation. I often release prophetic words, dreams, and visions, not knowing how they are going to happen or when they may come to pass. I’ve declared several of them a decade or more ago that still haven’t yet happened. I just keep doing what I wrote about in my book, Planting the Heavens, on how to use prayers, decrees of faith, promises, and prophecy to seed God’s Word into the heavens and into the earth realm. It’s a vital, strategic promise of the Word of God.

God’s words are seeds that, when planted, will grow and become whatever the words had decreed. We are now in a time when literally thousands upon thousands of seed promises have been planted in the atmosphere, in the Spirit realm, around thrones of darkness, and sown into the earth realm, as well. This has taken place for several decades or more, and these last few months it has grown to where there are millions, at the very least, of decrees that have been made and are now coming to full-ness, to maturity. They are ripe and ready to be produced. Yes, it is time for a great shaking, but it’s also opening an era of promises received, of harvests that are ripe, and of victory.

God says in Isaiah 51:16 (NKJV): “I have put My words in your mouth; I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, that I may plant the heavens, lay the foundations of the earth….”

We’re seeing that take place now. The remnant has been sowing God’s Word in both the Spirit realm and the natural realm, repairing and rebuilding. There have been national prayer teams going all across our land, including some that I’m a part of. Something is beginning that we must understand: what we have been sowing and planting is now coming to its fullness of time.

In March of 2021, I had a vision of a tsunami wave that brought a great shaking, but it also brought revival and reformation. A tsunami is caused by a large, sudden displacement of water, typically caused by an underwater earthquake—a shaking that then sparks a huge wave. In this vision, I heard the decrees of Heaven that were being carried by Holy Spirit winds—sounds in the Spirit realm that began to prophesy to us. I want to describe this to you as closely as I can.

Prior to this vision, I had begun to sense a different kind of anointing—a kind of soaking in my spirit—almost as though it was a Holy Spirit encounter. It was very aggressive and bold. I had been praying for a supernatural apostolic boldness to come upon the corporate Ekklesia, just as the early apostles had prayed for boldness in Acts 4:29.

I began to feel an intense anointing on my spirit that lasted for a week or so, and I started to hear things differently in the Spirit realm. I began to sense and see things in the Spirit realm more clearly, as if they were more real. I don’t know how to describe it except that it was more real, realer than real.

As I prayed into this, asking, “Holy Spirit, what are You saying to the Church? Talk to me; give me understanding,” I was caught up in a vision and heard Holy Spirit say, “I’m anointing My apostles, prophets, and Kingdom Ekklesias to win old battles and new battles, resulting in new, victorious living.”

The word new was emphasized each time, and I began to understand that we were going to fight old battles; they needed to be dealt with. But as we fought the old battles, we are also going to be engaged in fighting new ones. There would be an engagement of both the old and the new, but it would result in both the old and new battles being won. After Holy Spirit said this, I began to hear power explosions in the Spirit realm. The word for power in the Greek is dunamis, and we get the word dynamite from that (Strong’s G1411). However, dunamis doesn’t mean a physical stick of dynamite. It means the dynamite has been lit, and when it explodes, the explosion is the dunamis.

So, what I had begun to hear was released explosions or released energy, similar to hearing fireworks on the 4th of July—boom, boom, boom. And what I was hearing was in the Spirit realm.

I knew it was an explosion against satanic strongholds in the nation—and that we would see the collapse of these strongholds—because what I saw was old-looking for-tresses, like old castles, that were being blown up. Often, when a building is being torn down, they will blow it up so it collapses, and then they can remove the debris. That’s what was happening to these old fortresses or castles.

There was a demolition going on, and strongholds began to be blown up and leveled to the ground in this new battle. As I continued to hear these explosions from the Spirit realm, I began to hear the sounds of revival. Revival, or revival sounds, have a different sound to them, and I’ve pondered how to describe this.

I was raised in revival until I was around nine or ten years old. My dad was an evangelist and traveled around in revival after revival. Back then, there was a one or two-week revival, and then we would move on. Well, being a kid, wherever Dad went, the family went, so I was in revival day after day, week after week. And as a kid, I didn’t know what things I was picking up along the way, but I was. I began to learn the different sounds of revival and how it feels to be in one. It became a natural feeling for me to be in revival.

I also began to hear the songs of revival, and they, too, have a different sound. Kingdom songs, when you really listen, have a Heaven frequency about them: a vibration that results in the sound of many waters or the sound of wind. It’s like the frequencies that are in any room, but you can’t see them. It’s as though you have a radio and you tap into that. Your spirit can tap into spiritual frequencies, and some of those are occurring in the songs. And of course, these frequencies activate. They activate our faith and prophetic decrees. They also activate Angel Armies, because angels are very sensitive to the frequencies of Heaven.

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So I began at a young age to hear the songs and sounds of revival. I can hear them now, just as plain as if I were there. Oftentimes in the visions that I have, it’s as if I’m there; it’s that clear. I began to hear the songs of the Welsh revival that was led by Evan Roberts. I could hear a song that carried revival throughout Wales and throughout all of Europe, and then came over to these shores. I could hear it so clearly:

The miners were saved in such numbers that they would sing this song for hours underground, and the sound would come floating up out of the air shafts. People would bring their chairs and sit around the openings of the shafts, listening to the sound of revival.

Hear these words floating throughout Europe: