On July 7, 2010, the Lord powerfully visited our Youth With a Mission Fire and Fragrance community in Kona, Hawaii. Amy Sollars, one of our leaders and a contributing author in this book, was praying for revelation when she experienced the following. Below is a brief excerpt of what happened during that encounter:
As I waited on the Lord, I was given an encounter and message from the Lord where I saw a heavenly messenger dressed in clothes like those worn during the colonial period in America. In my spirit, I knew he looked like Paul Revere. He had a messenger bag and he said that he represented a people that would bring a message.“They will‘ride’ through the night to declare and prepare the way for a revolution that will lead to reformation.” He said that in the bag were documents related to this and were about the release of glory. He said that there were people who were to go and sound an alarm—an awakening alarm.
As a community, we have a value and culture that no revelation supersedes or contradicts the truths revealed in Scripture. At the same time, we pay attention when God speaks in these ways.
In response to this encounter, we went into a season of waiting on God for confirmation of this vision and revelation of what it meant. The encounter seemed fairly explanatory in itself: God is raising up a generation that will be like Paul Revere, carrying an urgent message that will lead to revolution and ultimately reformation. However, this is not a political or violent revolution, but rather an overthrow of all spiritual darkness that reigns in our lives and in our communities. From this message of revolution, many would be awakened to the truth and Lordship of Jesus. The reformation that would follow would be a cultural reformation. It would not be ethnic culture as in the Korean culture or the Norwegian culture, but a culture that both transcends and enriches human cultures.
Amy’s description of the encounter continued:
Next he said that the Lord was releasing“circuit riders” again. I saw these different circuits and this wild-eyed revivalist declaring the gospel. I saw these lines of fire igniting wherever they rode.
We understood this to mean that God will release revolution messengers who will carry the message of the simple gospel to the highways and byways of the nation. They will go preaching the love of God; total and absolute surrender to his Lordship; and joy-filled, cross-bearing obedience. Their very lives will be based on the truth of the Bible and the teachings on the life of Jesus. These messengers will be cultural warriors whose very presence, power, and lifestyle will provoke the Bride to step into its promised glory and the lost to accept their Savior! A major move of God becomes possible with messengers like this—people who will truly live for Christ, or die for gain. Persec
