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

A Dream of What's to Come, from Tsege Beyene

This morning, as we were worshipping, the Holy Spirit brought a scene from my dream, the dream that I dreamt about 2 years ago. It was so vivid: The dream in summary was, Duncan was standing facing the people below the platform (I think he was leading worship or teaching..not sure) I was by the book store (this is before the center was re-modeled). As Duncan was speaking, I heard a sound, immediately I was in awe; said to myself OH IT IS HERE!!! THE ONE WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR IS HERE!!! with urgency, I wanted to run towards the center, I fell flat on the floor, I felt like there was not a bone left in me I could not move. I heard the people were making a lot of various sounds, some were crying.. THE HOLY SPIRIT WITH POWER and MIGHT TOOK OVER. Way before the center transitioned (to Carlos and Catherine); I had seen Duncan being commisioned to a new thing, I did not know what that new thing was, I believe I shared it then. So, I really believe the Father of Glory will bring this one to pass. -Tsege Beyene, Raleigh, NC, January 13, 2013

"The Five Angels and Five Highways of Revival"

Jeff Jansen: "The Five Angels and Five Highways of Revival The Five Angels While ministering in San Diego recently, the Lord revealed to me five angels that have been released in North America to bring revival fires to key cities. These five angels will be moving along five key highways that crisscross the United States. These highways will be known as Revival Highways. Bob Jones had a visitation several years ago from an angel named Breakthrough Revival. This angel had 11 other resurrection angels with him and he told Bob he had been sent to the States to prepare America for the greatest revival she had ever seen. This angel told Bob that he had previously been assigned to a man by the name of Benson Idahosa from Nigeria, but he had now come to the States. This angel said that stadiums would not be able to hold the masses of people and they would have to go to the open fields. The angel said to Bob, "Tell the people three words, 'MOVE, MOVE, MOVE!' We'll be moving with those that move in the things of God." The angels of God are looking for the sons and daughters of the Kingdom to start decreeing and moving in faith. As we begin to speak as God's authority on the earth, all of Heaven will come to back our words. The angels are being released to facilitate the will of God on the earth. The five angels that have been released are: Breakthrough Revival, Winds of Change, Healing Revival, Great Grace, and Wisdom. I've encountered each of these angels over the past few years in key meetings as we've ministered and brought a powerful release of revelation, miracles, signs, and wonders. Each time I've seen them, it's been in meetings located directly off of major interstates and intersections in North America. The five main revival highways are not exclusive in themselves as revival fires will burn all across the United States, but the places I've seen these angels move have been off of these key highways: The 5 Highways of Revival 1. Interstate 5 runs along the West Coast from San Diego to Canada. I saw major explosions of the glory of God and revival fires burning in San Diego, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Fullerton, Pasadena, and all throughout Los Angeles and the surrounding regions, and Stockton, Sacramento and Redding; into Medford, Grants Pass, Eugene, and Portland, Oregon; and into Vancouver and Seattle, Washington; and also Vancouver, B.C. Last year while ministering in Grants Pass, Oregon, I saw the angel Winds of Change moving up and down I-5. This angel was the angel that sparked revival in Lakeland just a few months later. 2. I then saw Interstate 95 on the East Coast, running from Maine to Miami, pelted with fires of revival. The cities that stood out were Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Daytona Beach, Jacksonville, Savannah, Richmond, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Newark, and all throughout New York City; also New Haven, Connecticut and Providence, Rhode Island. I saw a massive fire in Boston on the cross roads of the east where 90 and 95 meet. Last year I had a visitation from the Lord Himself in January as we were starting off the year at the Boston Cross Roads Glory conference. The Lord came to me during the worship service and handed me two stones—one red and the other green. He said to me, "Jeff, this nation has seen the natural government established here in Boston, but now they are going to see My government established here in the States." The Lord then said, "See, Jeff, My government is upon My shoulders." The stones the Lord had given me were the Urim and the Thummim which were placed upon the shoulders of the High Priest. In the Old Testament, these stones would determine the precise will of God in every situation. Jesus is the Head and we are His Body and carry His government in the earth! Boston will burn with a fire so hot that they will come from the nations of the earth to behold the glory of God. 3. I saw Interstate 90/94 running from Boston to Seattle. Along it I saw cities like Albany and Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, New York. I saw Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio; and Chicago and Milwaukee, Madison and the Fox River Valley in Wisconsin; Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Fargo, North Dakota; I saw Billings, Montana; Spokane and Seattle, Washington—all burning with different levels and degrees of the glory of God. 4. I saw Interstate 10 running from Jacksonville, Florida, to Los Angeles, California. Along this revival highway I saw Tallahassee, Florida and Mobile, Alabama. Houston and San Antonio, Texas were burning with an intense heat. Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona to L.A. were all ablaze with glory fire. I believe many cities will have invitations to host the presence and the spirit of revival, but only some will receive. 5. Lastly, I saw Interstate 40 running through the middle of the United States. Bob Jones had seen a similar vision last year and called it the "40 Revival Highway." In this vision, I saw a similar thing with key regions overrun with angelic activity and explosions of the power and glory of God. Starting on the East Coast I saw Raleigh, Greensboro and Asheville, North Carolina, engulfed in flames. Knoxville and Nashville were some of the brightest revival flames burning on the map, as raw hunger would be the fuel that would feed these revivals. Memphis, Little Rock, Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, and back to Los Angeles, were aflame. The Lord also revealed to me other circuitry that would work within these revival highways and spark new life into regions as Heaven invaded in days to come. The Lord showed me what He called the "Topeka Triangle" that runs from Topeka, Kansas, to Houston, Texas; then up the I-10 through Phoenix to L.A.; and then back to Topeka forming a revival triangle. Topeka was key to the Azusa Street Revival. His Glory Will Be Seen Upon You We are in a season where the waves of revival are beginning to build again—this time it will spill upon whole, corporate bodies of Believers in key cities and regions. These miracle angels have been sent to America to fan the flames of revival and will respond to our faith and believing, as we gather together in expectation of the Lord. Our sense of wonder, expectation, and childlike faith will draw these miracle angels to our meetings with powerful demonstrations of the Kingdom of God. As we continue to provide the fuel of love and holy awe to the moving of God, the atmosphere will become electric—resulting in mass explosions of revival fires that will burn bright for the nations to see! The Azusa Street revivalist, William J. Seymour, prophesied in 1909 that within 100 years there would be a release of the Shekinah Glory of God that would burn brighter than what took place during the Azusa Street Revival. During that revival there were incredible miracles that marveled the masses—like limbs growing out! God is preparing the Body of Christ to shine with this glory that the nations would see and come to the brightness of our rising! Isaiah 60 says that His glory will be seen upon you!

Hannah's Testimony

My life has been so touched since the conference. 3 years ago, I used to operate powerfully in the Holy Spirit, doing full time deliverance ministry and then God told me to go learn how to be a chef. Since then, it has been a very amazing and hard journey navigating in the restaurant industry with no formal training- just having the voice of the Lord to guide me and His favor. Long story short, for 3 years I have been practicing intimacy, but not in any sort of ministry or getting wrecked in the spirit very often. Just working crazy hard long hours in some very distinguished restaurants. Since the conference, I have prayed for 2 people who have received very miraculous healings from long term infirmities and today- I led my friend who was a witch to the LORD!! There is so much fruit from last weekend. I literally wake up every morning feeling the presence of God manifesting very strongly. The Lord has had me call my church family in Seattle and a friend in Colorado to impart the fire from Raleigh. I have laid hands on everyone here in Atlanta and released the fire with crazy glory pouring down on them. I wanted to write to you what the Lord shared with me about your ministry and what was going on in the spirit last weekend. Your ministry has such a special anointing for abundance and provision. Obviously, with the 1.2 million manifesting recently. Last weekend, there were gates in the spirit being opened and created to highways into the treasuries of Heaven. Keys were being released to everyone there. As a gate keeper, God showed me last weekend that not only can we open and close gates, we can call gates to be built and come forth when the Lord releases the anointing for it. There is a very specific anointing in your church for Kings to come forth. I saw that many of your young people will be raised up to be world leaders in finance, entertainment, evangelism, education etc. I kept hearing the word, "Royalty". You are raising a generation who knows they are royalty in the Kingdom, but will pave the way for that reality manifesting in the world. -Hannah Chung, Burning! Conference 2012 attendee

Kaisa's Testimony and Word

We recently received this from a young lady who attended our Burning! Conference: "Something about your church was very, very special to me and I wanted to let you know. I just felt that God really appreciates your hearts, who are leading, and really appreciates the work you do and He will bring people to help build up the church. Cause CTF will grow in Raleigh and lots of people will start coming to Raleigh just for that. People will move to Raleigh for the church, also from abroad. And it will be a place where people get equipped, and then they go back to their countries to equip others. It will be an equipping center. God will send the fire starters there to get equipped first... Lots of knowledge and revelation of Father's heart will be sent from CTF Raleigh to all around the world. I believe also through media. God will give exceptional wisdom and revelation to the leaders of CTF Raleigh, so that you will build the church all around the world. CTF Raleigh will have a very special place and anointing, unlike any other. That's what I'm feeling. Your church is a very, very special place and has a special place in Father's heart. He's gonna take care of all your needs cause this church is very precious to Him, He's gonna show the world who He is through this church in Raleigh. So many people will get to know Him through you. You already have, but you will have even more of exceptional teaching that will flow straight from the heart of God and change people's lives instantly. So.. I was so blessed to be there, and hope I'll be able to come back soon. Thank you so much for everything, you have been such a blessing to me!" -Kaisa from Finland

Prophetic Word from The Time is Now Conference-Tammy Schabel October 2011

When the alarm woke me this morning I was in a dream. I heard the name "August South" twice right before the alarm went off.

August means : inspiring, reverence or admiration; majestic. It is the eighth month, symbolizing new beginnings. Also, the month of the Jewish New Year known as "Rosh Hashanah." There are 31 days in August: one of the names of God is "El", meaning "the Almighty." The numeric value of this Hebrew word is 31.

South: "a cardinal point of the compass lying directly opposite north." The cardinal is our North Carolina state bird. It is a bright red, North American songbird. Cardinal means: "of prime importance; a high ecclesiastical appointment standing in rank next to the pope." Red is used as one of the primary colors of light.

This is what I am hearing:

God is visiting North Carolina right now and North Carolina will be one of the primary states to lead the way in this next move of God among us. When the month of August was originally chosen for the calendar, it was because of several great triumphs, one of which was Egypt. I hear the Lord saying that the Spirit of Egypt (love of the world and slavery or bondage to it) is being broken off of the Body of Christ. Our reverence and admiration for the Majesty of the Almighty God is going to be restored. This day, " The Time is Now Conference", is the beginnings of this new thing that God is doing in our hearts.

- Tammy Scahbel, Raleigh, NC, October 2, 2011

Testimony- Burning Conference, June 2011

For the past 3 years my 16 year old daughter has been experiencing overheating. This started with sports, but expanded to her everyday life. Now this doesn’t sound like a serious problem, but when she would exert herself the least little bit she would get physically sick; turn pale, cold sweat, muscle weakness, dizziness, shaking, and upset stomach. She was hydrating like crazy but nothing helped. She went to her pediatrician who ran lots of tests (including looking for tumors) but could not find the source. She finally had to quit playing volleyball and could not even enjoy going to the water park or beach with her friends. We would notice even in the coldest room she would still be hot.

Last June we came to the Burning Conference at your church. She was prayed for many times throughout the conference – but she noticed a difference. She was able to dance during the Burning set and not overheat. All summer long she kept testing it and testing it and she was not overheating. She would get hot (as a normal person does) but not cross over to that point of getting sick anymore.

That was 5 months ago and she has been dancing up a storm. We are so grateful to God and to Catch the Fire Raleigh for this miracle. Blessings on your church!

-Anne Sych, Newport News, VA, October 14, 2011

Word from Tammy Schabel during The Time is Now! Conference

Friday night I heard the Lord say that He is/would be sending us (Catch the Fire Raleigh) out and that we would need to have our arms stretched wide open because we would return with the harvest of souls. I heard the old hymn, "Bringing in the sheaves." My husband sang the hymn beautifully on the way to church on Saturday morning. On Saturday night, I saw bodies all over the floor face down and the Lord reminded me of the outpouring that we experienced in the Baptist church in the 80's. I saw this in Brownsville, Fl. as well. I felt in my spirit that it would not be long before this would be happening at Catch the Fire Raleigh.

-Tammy Schabel, October 5, 2011

Karen's Testimony

Just over a month ago after reading a book by Andrew Murray called 'Experiencing the Holy Spirit' I was seized with a desperate and urgent desire for this experience of the Holy Spirit. Since then I have had many experiences including electrical currents flowing through me in the night as well as visions. I have also been attending the Holy Spirit meetings at the Island Church every Thursday and thus heard about the Catch the Fire Conference. I must say I found it to be a most blessed experience particularly gaining huge insight from the teaching on the cross and who we are in Christ - I must state this here as I am most grateful to Duncan for this teaching - it helped me to explain some of the visions etc which I have been experiencing, but that is a whole different story.

I had never experienced a fire tunnel before so I was most excited since I have been in a state of urgent expectancy ever since reading the book. However I must admit I had my own ideas about what I hoped to receive from the Lord. When I walked through the tunnel I just stumbled and fell down halfway through, but I was fully conscious and aware of everything that was going on around me, I soon got up and decided to walk through again since I noticed the many strange manifestations around me and thought perhaps I needed to receive more, this time I just stumbled a bit but made it through without falling...so I went a third time when again I fell halfway through, but was completely conscious and aware of everything going on around me, where it seemed others were in some other place and experiencing far deeper things than me. To be honest this bothered me as I wondered why I had not really received anything as I felt exactly the same, but I had gone in with a huge willingness to receive. It bothered me so that throughout the next morning I pondered it almost non stop..naturally it also led me to question whether anyone really received anything REAL or if they were just pretending or making up the laughing etc..but not in a bad way..I just honestly sensed God there but wondered how someone could be that close and yet not receive..it was at this point that I felt the Lord say....'don't be so quick to say you didn't receive anything...' so I accepted this thought and trusted the Lord to show me more.

Almost as soon as I got in my house after work I had an irresistible urge to start speaking (I was alone) and when I did a strange language was coming out my mouth...well I had heard about tongues before but never felt I had received a proper tongue as it always felt made up. But this was quite different. So I spoke for about an hour non stop, but I already noticed that as I was speaking I could almost see the phrases before my eyes, this 'seeing the words' continued throughout Friday and Saturday night (hardly slept) and convinced me that this was definitely a different experience to previous unsatisfactory attempts to speak in tongues. Eventually after Church on Sunday I felt a need to write the phrases I could see down..almost as soon as they were down I felt the Lord tell me to turn my computer on and type in 'language identification'. Immediately a website whatlanguageisthis.com came up and I entered the first phrase thinking this was crazy... the first phrase was immediately identified as Tagalog which I since discovered is the second biggest language spoken in the Philippines, all of the remaining phrases were also identified as Tagalog. The next step was to translate the words. Some of them had direct translations such as 'kataka-taka which means miracle - something independent of laws of nature and 'pagtaka' which means astonishment, 'halina' - to call a person and 'mundo' - universe, everything there is...but I got no direct message as some words I had joined together likethis and some had been misspell using an a instead of an o. I have also since discovered there are several dialects of this tongue as it is spoken by approximately 22 million people which complicates such a literal interpretation. For the record I must state that I am probably one of the least traveled people in the world. I was born in Zimbabwe and lived there all my life until coming to Knysna about 9 years ago. I have never been in any other countries and never had the slightest interest in the Philippines. Since then I have had other words come to me one of which was the name of a city in the Philippines 'Naga'. Oh and the thing I like the most about this is the meaning of Tagalog - it is a name of an Ethnic group of people and the word literally translates as 'coming from the river' or 'native of the river'. I like this so much as I have seen in Rev 22:1 and other places that the Holy Spirit is likened to a river of life. It was at this point that I felt the Lord gently say to me 'Now was that REAL enough for you?' The strangest thing though is that I keep getting and seeing words which I can identify but don't string into a particular message, the sense is more of learning a language almost like in the Matrix when they put Neo in the chair with that cap and things were just downloaded in his brain..also interesting that getting a tongue was the last thing I expected or even wanted..

By the way probably one of the most astonishing miracles is the fact that when Brian asked me to share this at the Holy Spirit meeting I readily agreed and managed easily standing in front of people talking into a microphone..you see I have always been a quiet and shy person and I was terrified of public speaking and never in my wildest dreams thought I would stand and testify in front of others..but I actually quite enjoyed it!!! :)

Blessings to you and your family - Karen

Testimony from Women Ablaze 2011

We wanted to let you know how blessed and changed we were by the conference. It was a powerful time for us as many things were being confirmed and lining right up. We enjoyed meeting many sweet sisters in Christ- what a blessing it is to see and experience God's transformation of His daughters. Powerful ministry! and the grace and peace at CTF Raleigh clearly manifested.

God bless you,
Cass, and daughter Josephine, Hawkinson 6/28/2011

Word from Patricia Bootsma 7/7/2011

For myself, before Duncan and Kate announced (at least before I knew) they were going to Raleigh, I was in the hospitality room in Toronto and I received a vision of two cities the Lord was going to powerfully touch. One of them was Raleigh and the other Cleveland. Who happened to be in the room was Steve Witt and also Duncan and Kate. Anyway, I am aware great things are happening now in Cleveland as per Steve Witt's testimony in Redding when I was there several months ago. Regarding Raleigh, there was a mushroom cloud like a good kind of nuclear bomb and it went all over the world.
During worship on the Sunday we were in Raleigh, I felt the Lord remind me of that word and He said that yes, things have already begun in the first CTF church was planted in Raleigh but yet there was much more to that word about to come to pass.
After the service Sunday, a gal came up to me and said she had had the same picture over CTF Raleigh of a mushroom cloud. I asked her to share it with Kate. Then a third gal told me she had a similar picture as well.
I had also felt a big awakening happening in the area - Great Awakening - and I felt it would in particular come through the youth.

-Patricia Bootsma
July 2011

Word from Jocelyn Tracey 6/26/2011

I had a dream and in my dream I was in a coffee shop, I knew I was in the heart (exact centre) of Raleigh; I also knew that someone was coming to visit me, however I didn't know whom. A lady came in and sat down across from me.. she said 'I am an angel with a message, CTF in Raleigh will be receiving supernatural acceleration, there have been many promises which the Lord has handed them and they are coming to pass in God's timing ... tell the church to ready their hearts, for their is a wave coming. Let them know that Raleigh does not belong to North Carolina in the heavens, it belongs to CTF; Raleigh.... it is theirs to claim. God's hand is over their church. Finally, tell the youth that they have been chosen.

-Jocelyn Tracey
Women Ablaze 6/26/2011

Word from Ann-Marie Burrell 6/26/2011

I saw a picture of a dirt moat surrounding the church building which was very rocky.
The church was pure white in colour. Which I felt represented the heart of the church. The intimacy the church as a whole, had with the Lord and was of one spirit. I than saw going away from the church was a dirt road leading up a steep hill to a mountaintop. I felt the church had been in a wilderness experience season. On the mountaintop I saw green trees which I felt meant abundance and more provision was coming. In the supernatural and the natural. I saw the church seeing vision far into the distance and getting the big picture . Of what is to come and where its to go.

Further I saw many people of all ages gathering in the church building. A spirit of worship, joy and the Father's love exploded at CTF Raleigh. The building wasn't big enough to contain all the people. Isaiah 61:1-3 came to mind.

-Ann-Marie Burrell
Women Ablaze 6/26/2011

Prophetic Word by Ryan Wyatt

(These words were recorded in Spring of 2010 when Ryan visited Catch the Fire Raleigh.)


There is a power of decree that God wants to open up in this region. It’s time for the people of God to hear the plans of God, and it’s time for them to speak, speak, speak, speak, speak and decree!

Elisha saw what God saw and because he saw it he then decreed it and it released the kingdom to fight on his behalf. When you are body of people who are called to be forerunners and are called to birth something you are waging war for the rest of the region. I am not saying you are the only one in the region, but you are forerunners.

It’s one thing to hear something in the spirit that no one else around you would even believe, it’s another thing to realize that you are called to birth it. It’s not enough for you to hear something in the spirit and then not co-labor with God, just because you hear it doesn’t mean you will have it, you’ve got to bring it in.

We can’t expect to birth something if we are not turning aside into the glory realm of God to see what it is that He wants to birth. And we also can’t expect to birth something new living the same way we have last season. Forerunners are ones that are called to sacrifice. You want to be a forerunner of something in this region? Get ready for sacrifice. Get ready for laying your life down for something that is much bigger than yourself or your own individual personal calling or destiny. If you are called to be a part of the move of God in this region, and you are called to forerun something, you are going to be laying your life down for it. But you need to know that your individual calling, and destiny, and purpose is found in the greater calling and corporate calling, destiny, and purpose. If you are only going after your own personal calling, that is not God’s will. You need to identify yourself with something much bigger than yourself. When you begin to plow and believe with a larger body of believers for a corporate vision that God has for the church, in that you will find your own personal destiny and calling being fulfilled, if that is your place of assignment.

I feel God wants to release a burden, the burden of His heart to birth something new. There is a groaning that God wants to release, a groaning that calls upon a homeland, that calls upon a kingdom to come.

I feel such a mantle--today is the beginnings of something in the spirit and it is going to have to be birthed--there is such a burden of intercession, firey intersession that is coming on this body to begin to birth this thing, but you have got to understand that even though you may not see it in the natural there is the beginnings, the conceptions of something in the spirit. I want to pray for you, because you guys as the lead pastors here, I feel like there is something fresh the Lord wants to release on you, something so new.

I feel like there is something of a mantle of a fresh jealousy of the Lord for a new thing that He wants to put on this place.

There are times I can see that it’s so strong on you that it is actually going to cause you pain it’s going to be such a burden in you that there are days where it will literally overcome you with the groaning of pain to see it manifest. It is something that is going to touch you so deep. It’s like a fresh revival even within you personally.

Prophetic word over Catch the Fire State by Justin Pierce

Justin's word taken down by his mom, Nancy Pierce September 22, 2009.

Wow that was amazing!  My kitchen will never be the same....my son preached quite a prophetic word tonight  :)

Tonight, Justin, you talked about the low-tech methods of using the Brickyard to reach people and the free expression tunnel with messages about Fire State, Ignite groups, Catch the Fire Raleigh...how you observed other church's efforts of using high tech, high cost posters to try to start ministries at NC State....they had the money to start, there was a strong impression a few years ago that there was to be a new church at NC State area for students, but it was halted because of the thought that it wasn't a good business decision...

Catch the Fire was ready to invest in a building near campus for student-led ministry....in talking to people, a room became available on campus, for free, because of the student-led organization that was formed....

God has been wanting for years to break into Raleigh....with His Father's love....churches have had the desire here, but things didn't work out...it was waiting to happen...

He kept people in Raleigh who were wanting to leave Raleigh...me (Justin) for example...got accepted to Moody Bible Institute, was considering going, things changed and he stayed here...other people were gonna leave, but God kept them around...He kept those in Raleigh that are adventurous, that are not afraid of stepping out onto a road that isn't built yet, that is not seen yet...they are coming together in CTF and will be used....from the feet of the people to the head of government, to the arms and legs that are (his love and spirit) in reaching out.......there will be others churches that will be brought into this season. Other churches also who had to seed of desire for revival but it didn't come right then...it will be coming.... His oil is going to pour out on Raleigh....

Wow Prophecy from Julian Adams

2008

Just recently I was attending a team meeting where we gathered from our family of churches in France, key leaders to pray and strategize for the year forward. We were having a time of worship when the Lord took me into an encounter by the Spirit. In this encounter I found myself walking in a garden enjoying the presence of Jesus, when suddenly Jesus invited me into this room. I found myself in a treasure room. It was full of the most amazing jewels, treasure boxes full of gold and what seemed like big rocks
with diamonds hidden inside! Jesus began to speak to me about this room of treasure and heavenly resource!

Without delay I heard him say go search out your treasure and resource for this next year, as I did this, with much glee I might add, I literally was diving into treasure as I found myself energized by the Spirit. It was in this context that I saw you both, Duncan and Kate Smith looking, searching and enjoying the treasure of Heaven. This for me was really weird, as we have not really crossed paths other than a conference at Richard Maybury's church. I was actually startled by seeing you in this room! I noticed that you both were unaware of me as you were enjoying resource form heaven!

It was then I felt Jesus began to speak to me! I asked Him why you were both in this encounter, I felt him download a word into my heart for you both. I felt the Lord speaking about a new season of Resource and Treasure that the Lord was opening up to you. I felt him say these will be the resources that I will give the Smith's, people, buildings and nations. I felt him say this three times as I was there. God I believe is about to open up new vistas of opportunities for your church, ministry and the nations. I believe that part of your treasure will be coming into your true apostolic identity and part that will be released in displaying raw apostolic power.

I saw People, like literal treasures being added to you, from the affluent to the poorest of the poor. It was like the rocks of diamonds I was picking up. The divine enclosed in the earth. You will be a couple to break open the destiny of people that have being hidden for a long time. There is something about famous men and women who will join you. I mean this in terms of well-known people in secular arenas. I even felt there would be some famous actors who you will have contact with and draw them into an encounter of Jesus. I saw people of great influence given to you to open up the region
you are working in.

I believe another part of the treasure will be men and women who have been disillusioned with the church. Broken men and women. Those burnt stones that have been left on a heap and discarded. I felt that the Lord was excited when he was speaking to me about this but, there was also a caution. I felt him say there would be those who would want to spy out your freedom and criticize it. I felt like God would expose this and give you apostolic wisdom as to how to deal with them. My sense was that God was going to give you some unlikely candidates who will join you and bring an evangelistic momentum to you very quickly! There were some burnt stones that you would restore back into ministry!

I felt the Lord speak to me about moments of doubling. It was like I could see a Sunday when you church would literally double in size. There is a breaking in of God coming to you that will cause radical increase!

I then saw building made out of precious stones. I felt the Lord would give you key buildings in the area that you work. I saw houses and big buildings. More than one! Buildings that would be used for equipping and releasing. This was not about simply places to meet or to have a nice building. I felt God wanting to give you title deeds and keys that would give you access to the community and to serve as a display of Glory. It was like there would be a residue of anointing in these place and people would come to receive as a result. I saw a lot of activity in building, I felt God say this will be a training house for revivalists and those who would bring reformation. I believe that God is going to unlock apostolic revelation to you that will release people to be trained and sent to impact many places, much like yeast effects a whole bowl of flour!

I also sensed that as you both were digging into these treasures there were treasures given that were specific to particular nations. It was like there were different types of treasure that came from different lands. I felt in particular you would be given building in other lands too. Even lands from poorer nations. As I continued in my encounter, there was a real sense of you both putting on jewels, crowns and precious stones. There was a sense of you both parading the multi-colored wisdom of God. I felt the Lord is about to take you both up a gear, and whilst you have had profile in many places God was about to unveil you to Nations. I felt that God said to me, part of the resource will be nations. God is going to give you nations that will be like a home from home. It is like you will have authority in those nations to see the out working of God's purposes. It will mean you will stand before very influential people in government and even kings and presidents. It was as if you were wearing theses nations like crowns and you would release nations into their redemptive destiny. I saw you finding treasure in these nations and exposing them to the world. I believe this is about finding sons and daughters in many nations and releasing them. This is about fathering and releasing! Duncan I feel like God wants you to know that the dreams in your heart for specific nations are his dreams and you will come into them sooner than you think!

I believe that the Lord will even give you predictive prophetic insight into what will happen in the economic and political situations of some of these nations. They are yours to display God's wisdom and grace with! God will give you particular nations as yours. I believe part of the nations he will give you an increasing measure and exposure to will be, South Africa and some European countries. I sense there might even be some connections with places that have been dark, like France, Spain and some Scandinavian nations. (This is just what I sense; I know you will be able to weigh this. Don't be surprised if doors don't open to you increasingly in these places.)

It really is a season of new treasure for you. New opportunities and new encounters in the treasure/resource rooms of heaven! I do believe that Your new church will be an apostolic base that will have an impact on many nations! Get ready it is a new day!

Words confirming revival: Tammy Schabel

January 2010

As early as second grade I would lie awake at night listening for the trumpet to blow. I did not want to go to sleep because I wanted to be ready for the Lord’s return. I was still living with my mom at that time in a small apartment in northeast Greensboro. I would go to church as often as I could as a child. I loved being in church for any reason. I had a strong awareness of God’s presence. I felt His Spirit with me and I had a sense about things that were to take place at some time in my future. My parents were already divorced and in third grade I went to live with my fathers parents who raised me from then on. In search for relationship with God in the Baptist Church, I grew up praying that He would not forget me and leave me behind. In my early twenties I left the Baptist Church when God audibly spoke to me one Sunday morning and told me that I did not belong there anymore. It was the first time that I had heard Him speak to me that way. I looked all around for the voice, but there was no one seated near me. I had already been filled with the Holy Spirit at a Bible study that I attended after work on Thursday nights so the Lord led me to a Spirit-filled church. Around that point in my life I began to pray continually for revival and awakening. I loved studying about generals and reformers in the Kingdom. In 1996, I was at Pastor Steve and Karen’s house during a snow storm. They had a women there named Perry Parnacher, she was a Pastor and Prophetess from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I had never met her before that day, but I had heard about her. She had an adopted son who was at UNCG in school. She would come to visit and a lady I knew named Ann would hold prophetic meetings while she was in Greensboro. I had never made it to any of the meetings but God had set this divine appointment up on this cold, snowy February day. My son, Josh and I sat before her and she prayed and spoke over us both with exact words. She prophesied that I had been praying to the Lord, “Oh God, please do not let me miss revival.” She then said, “Not only will you not miss revival, but you will be in the center of revival.” One night before moving to Raleigh, I watched Pastor Choe from Korea as he spoke on TBN. He had ask the Lord, “What about the United States of America?” The Lord had him get a map out and told him that where the Lord placed his fingers there would be revival and Raleigh, NC was one of the areas. We moved to the Raleigh area to help a new ministry get established in 1997. So moving here was exciting at the time! We believed that revival would take place there but it did not. On July 22, 2003 while I sat on my tractor mowing the nearly two acres of land that we had at that time, the Lord spoke to me about revival. We were still at the ministry that we moved to the Raleigh area to help established. We had supported the Pastors even a year before we moved due to the Lord having spoke to Michael and I to reconnect with this couple and pray for them. The Lord had told us in 1989 when we were moving to NC from Louisiana (where Michael had grown up I had gone to Bible College) that we would one day be with this couple working in ministry. The Lord had told us other things as well to prepare our hearts to one day come to this area. But by July 2003, the Lord said that our seven year journey with this couple was up, our ship was in port and it was time to get off the ship. Then He began to show me a white building that would house revival. This building was somewhere in Raleigh and He showed me that it would have colors of purple in it. There were other things that He showed me, such as some of the ministry that Michael and I would be doing, and He even had me go read scriptures out of Isaiah 60 and 61. We drove through Raleigh on many occasions looking for the building and I even made a flower arrangement for it. People have since given us many gifts of purple candles and white churches. That same year (2003) Michael and I did something that we have never done before or since, we went to JCC in Smithfield to see Janet Paschal do a performance. Latter at a prophetic meeting I met a man named Larry Webber that gave me a word. He said that he had seen Janet Paschal at JCC, the same time that Michael and I were there, and while there he went into a vision. During the vision he saw a white building that had columns in it, but even with the columns you could still see the stage from wherever you sat. In this building would be revival and he believed that we would both be there working in ministry at this building. Interestingly enough, while he spoke the wind of heaven was strongly circling us. On New Years Eve 2003 and New Years Day of 2004, we were visiting with friends of ours in Virginia. One of them confirmed many of the things that the Lord had showed me on July 22, 2003. He even saw Michael and I in the white building. Years later the Lord connected us with a couple, named Craig and Yvonne Hughes, that He had previously told us about. When we met, we shared the things that the Lord had showed us about revival coming to Raleigh. They had seen the white church building also with the purple in it. They also knew another women that had seen the white church with columns and purple.
In May 2008, I went with one of our leaders to Maryland for a conference. While there Stacy Campbell prophesied over me and spoke of the coming move of God and how God would be using me. Over the years we have received many words about revival and the ministry that God has called us to. We feel that CTF-Raleigh is a definite part of what we have seen and heard from the Lord and others about. God Bless CTF-Raleigh and may this ministry be one without bars and may it stretch all the way to the Heavens. Amen.

History and Word by Kieron Densham

All of this came about at the beginning of our internship with Duncan and Kate in September 2007. Duncan and Kate had been traveling a huge amount that year and had given their position at TACF over to the YouthNet team. One thing that they had always held to is that they are all about the local church. Duncan once said that if it wasn't for the connection they had with the local church they would not be as effective as itinerant preachers as all of the stuff they preach on across the globe came from experiences of God being God in their home church. Now without a home church to speak of Duncan and Kate began seeking God for His mind on it all. At which point God told them they would be planting a network of churches. The number 1000 was give what they heard and they began to pray more into how they could possibly plant 1000 churches in their lifetime. One of the messages that Duncan regularly preached was about an Acorn. He would ask the question, " How many oak trees are there inside just one acorn?" Some would answer one which is partially correct but what Duncan would say is that one tree has the potential to produce thousands of acorns which each in turn have to potential to produce thousands. Therefore the answer to the question was not one but thousands. From there Duncan and Kate knew they were going to plant 1000 churches and they know that it was going to start with just one. The question was where?

There were a few doors that Duncan and Kate pushed before Raleigh but God, in one way or another, closed those doors. When Raleigh came on the radar however there was no closing that door. God sent confirmation after confirmation after confirmation.

Duncan had been talking with a prolific church planter a few years earlier Duncan asked him where in any of the world would he plant a church if he could. The mans reply was Raleigh, North Carolina. His reasons where because of the huge number of young people in the area due to all of the colleges and also the fact that it is a hub for academic achievement. So many people know and travel to Raleigh because it is a center for excellence. At that time Duncan suggested the idea to Kate but got a very short 2 letter response NO. Gods wisdom won out in that situation as the timing was just not right.

When right timing came about Duncan and Kate looked at Raleigh again and pursued God for His thoughts. They were driving back from a wedding in downtown Toronto and were chatting the idea over. at which point Duncan and Kate prayed, God if you want us to go to Raleigh we will go, if you want us to stay in Toronto we will stay we just want to know either way! As soon as they had prayed this Duncan spotted a car that was driving right in front of them. The car was a Plymouth Voyager and it had on it a North Carolina plate. WYV3100. This blew them both away and they immediately began to try and work out what the relevance of the letters and numbers on the license plate meant. Firstly The car was a Plymouth Voyager. Named after the voyage that a certain ship took from the dock in Plymouth carrying the first settlers of a place we now call the United States of America.

The license plates in NC have the phrase First in Flight on them. Then they unpacked the license plate itself. WYV "with Your Values" The values that they had been soaking up and preaching on for their whole time at TACF. Duncan and Kate saw this as confirmation that they were to set out on a voyage into the USA as the first in flight from TACF to plant a church carrying the values. The numbers were the easy bit. Duncan had another message about oneness that he taught regularly where he talked about the Godhead being one and us being in the godhead. The 3 represented the trinity and the 1 represented the oneness including us! The two 0's represented Duncan and Kate themselves!

They were seriously excited about what had happened and decided that we were going to look at Raleigh more purposefully now with the intention of planting the first CTF church there. So I went to work researching the city and it's history. Some of the things I found out were just astounding. Raleigh is otherwise refereed to as the city of Oaks. As you have already seen the relevance of the Oak tree is huge. God was saying yep, this is the place where the 1000 strong church movement begins.

The next thing we found out is that Raleigh was an intentionally built city. North Carolina needed a capital city so they bought out a plot of land and designed the city to be built on the plot. After looking into it a bit further i found out that the plot of land that was bought to build this city was..yeah you guessed it.. 1000 acres!!! The question about whether this was the right place has disappeared. Duncan and Kate were looking for a place where they could plant the first CTF church a church that would within their lifetime become 1000 churches. and Raleigh was the city of oaks built on a plot 1000 acres big. I looked into the word acre to see what it actually was and the meaning of the word is this. " The amount of land that 1 yolk of Oxen could plow in 1 day". I found this out the very same day that Duncan had preached a message at TACF about church planting. He was encouraging the church not to strive in the harvest field but to be yolked to the Bull (Holy Spirit) and let him plow the field. The amount of land 1 yolk of Oxen can plow in 1 day is 1 acre. We are Yolked to the Holy Spirit in the harvest field and the Harvest Field Duncan and Kate were looking at was historically 1000 acres!

I loved being around the church as it was in it's formative stage and I loved seeing God come through time and time again with confirmation that Raleigh was the place. It is an honor to have been involved in even the smallest of ways. We love you guys at CTF Raleigh so much and can't wait to see the Acorn become a forest.