Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Ready For The Next Thing by Leigh Anne Fernandez

I was swept up in a whirlwind, and when I got to the top of it, I looked down over the edge of it and saw buildings in downtown Raleigh, particularly the round Clarion building with the sky restaurant and then Moore's Square. I saw and heard a very large explosion take place, and I understood that to mean that there would be an explosion of supernatural activity among the homeless, poor, drug addicted, prostituting, etc in our city. I see scales coming off of eyes, I see ears opening, legs walking that were lame, chains of mental illness and substance abuse falling off of people. I see, as Rosy was praying tonight, the ground calling out in Moore's square and all around downtown from a deficit of sons and daughters on that ground historically. The cry is loud coming from the ground because there have been so few sons of God on that ground for maybe even a century or more. The ground there is calling out for sons and daughters to be revealed on that land, and there is even a crater where the ground is giving way, like as if that area is literally losing ground. There have been churches come in to love and serve the poor, and I see those churches are called blessed by the Lord, because they have been Jesus to those poor and needy. But I see Him calling us to bring explosion of the supernatural and to call forth sons and daughters on that ground. I see that instead of people running from the explosion, there is something unusual going on here. The louder the boom, an d the higher the smoke cloud rises, the more people are running TO the explosion to see what's happening. I see them getting as close to the explosion as possible. I see people being propelled off the ground and rocked by the explosions to the point that the old foundations of their life are completely obliterated and replaced by the fire of the Holy Spirit. I see people getting close to the explosion with a look of distress, urgency, desperation on their faces turn to peace, joy, and rest as this foundation changes. I see flames out of my peripheral vision lighting up all over the city, just to the East and West of downtown. Then I see flames to the North around 540 all around the perimeter of the big explosion in the center and the 2 flames on the East and West of downtown. As those flames are just small flames like just of those from the light of a candle, I see the Holy Spirit blowing through town with a wind that is fanning those flames and feeding them. The flames are becoming bigger and bigger as they get blown around by the Holy Spirit. The flames are dancing wildly and nearly out of control and beginning to spread well outside of the area they were supposed to be defined in. They are uniting to the flame on either side on the outside loop of the city until the entire perimeter is a messy line of fire all around the outside of the inner city in a semi circle. As the perimeter burns brighter and brighter, the flames that were once small are now large flames, dancing out of control. The lines of fire are undefined, non-linear lines , with MANY shades of blue, yellow, red, orange, white. I feel the small flames are most likely small groups or ignite groups, some type of small gathering of people. I see that the perimeter is now clearly the outer loop, 540, because it loops the city in only a semi-circle currently. The small groups are uniting with other groups and the Holy Spirit is fanning their flames and they are wildly worshipping and gathering very diverse and "non-churchy" looking people into their groups which is what is causing the lines of fire to look so colorful and non-linear. Their passion cannot be contained neatly, and their flames cannot be quenched for the Lord, for each other, and for the city. As the line of fire grows messier and wilder, it is completely out of its boundary of a line now and it is filling in the entire city from the outer loop of 540 to the downtown area where the explosions have been happening. Now the entire city from downtown to the outer loop are ablaze with many colors (many races, many accents, many age ranges). I see flames that lap the city like water running all over the land. I see flames that are wildly jumping, sparking loudly, and dancing. There are flames that are like embers, not very dramatic flames, but they are consistently hot and steady burning flames. I believe this is also speaking of the diversity of the functions of different people within our body. We have relentless evangelists, running all over the city. We have passionate worshippers ministering to the Lord. And we have steady, consistent intercessors and prayer warriors, holding and advancing the territory for the kingdom with their consistent sacrificial intercession. One thing is very clear as I look at this whole picture after it progressed and still burns, the whole city from the outer loop to downtown is claimed for the kingdom. There are no areas left untouched by our flames. Now I sense there is someone above me looking down over the whirlwind and the whole scene of Raleigh on fire, and I know immediately it is the Father. He is smiling with the proud look of the Father. He says, "Mission complete." He smiles and just admires. He shakes His head in amazement and bursts into laughter at times when He notices how out of control it looks. He says as He laughs, "This is my handiwork," for He is THE wild One. He says to us, "You have no idea what you've just started," with a tone of 'look out it is going to get better, even better.' We have laid the very solid foundation of a very big move of God and He is very, very pleased, and He is very ready for the next thing. Leigh Anne Fernandez - Jan. 7, 2013