Revival Fire RevolutionThis account happened two days ago, and the girl who had the encounter is still tremoring under the glory of the Lord. 

This occurred at an EGS service at IHOP-Detroit:

6/23/08

Monday night I was praying over Lisa (a woman who asked for prayer) when suddenly God told me to go to the other side of the room and pray for Brad.  I didn’t see why it made a difference, but I felt God clearly speak to me to pray there.  He said, “I have something over there for you.”  So, of course, I had to obey.

As I began to pray for Brad, my hand began trembling.  Within seconds my whole body was shaking like crazy.  God then spoke very clearly to me that I must get on my face.  I was really embarrassed because Pastor John was speaking and everyone was just sitting in their seats.

Again, the Lord spoke to me, “Get on your face!”  I fell to the ground and curled up in a little ball and began asking God to reveal why I was feeling shaky. 

Ministry time started a little while after I fell on my face and I became distracted in praying for my dad, which is a whole story in itself.  I guess I can share that too.

On Sunday night I received prophetic words as did many other people.  IHOPE was filled with the tangible presence of God.  My friends Like and Hannah were totally drunk in the Spirit. (especially Luke– but it was so awesome!)

After service my dad approached me and said, “That was incredible.”  He was amazed by the power of God.

Now that may seem insignificant, but my father is so skeptical and doubtful of the Holy IHOPE Detroit Heaven Encounter copySpirit.  He has mocked my gift of speaking in tongues for years saying it was just people being crazy.  But that night I saw the Holy Spirit begin to change him.  Then on Monday he went up to the altar for prayer about his pride.  He laid there sobbing and praying.  Two men of God started praying over him.  All I can say is the Lord has definitely changed my dad– something I’ve been praying about for years.

So I was distracted.  After service (Monday night) I began shaking again.  I sat down on the steps of the altar just shaking.  I was next to Trevor, Lizzy, Carly and Aubrey.  We were talking about my shaking when suddenly I began to burn.

When I say burn, I mean I literally became very hot.  I felt as if God picked me up and dipped me in the brightest and hottest flames.  I looked at Pastor John, shaking and burning, and said, “What do I do?”  I won’t lie, I was kind of freaking out.  He said, “You have to impart your fire.”

So I prayed for Tevor.  As I began to pray, I had to stop and lay on my face again.

The Lord impressed on me the need to pray for revival fire, mercy and justice.  I was speaking in tongues and interceding when God started taking me places.

I prayed for mercy and God gave me a vision of ten doctors who stood with their palms up as if in surrender.  They had these dark red bloodstains on the palms of their hands.  I knew instantly they were abortionists.  Then it was gone and I was looking at the floor of the stage again.

God said, “Sara, pray for mercy, justice, revival and the end-times.”  So, I did.

As I prayed for the end-times, God started taking me away.  I found myself watching the spiritual, invisible battle.  Satan’s forces against God’s.  Two armies colliding in the heavenlies.  I was amazed and shocked that I was witnessing this battle between the literal good and evil forces.

Jesus knew I was fearful.  I was consumed with two types of fear– fear of God and fear of the battle.  I heard him say, “Just watch.”  So I watches as the battle went on.

Suddenly I found myself in what seemed like a room.  I saw Jesus and angels.  I couldn’t speak because the fear of God was on my whole being.  But Jesus just looked at me with his burning eyes, inviting me to do so.

I began pouring out.  It felt like hours.  I sat there and spoke to him about the end-times.  I found myself sobbing, asking why so much death was necessary.  He showed me the earth in the end-times.  People were running and the land surrounding them was destroyed.  Buildings gone, smoke rising from dying fires, rotting corpses– it was vile.  I said to him, “I don’t understand.”  He said to me, “I am longing to pour out my revival, but not yet.”

I was kind of confused because we had been talking about the end-times.  So, I asked him, “God, what about your mercy?”  He spoke to me about it, saying that we need to ask for it.  Then he told me, “I will use the end-times to draw my children back to me.  I will use pain, death and suffering to draw my children closer.”

Feeling bold, I said to him, “Lord, why can’t you send revival now?  So many of us are wanting it!”

He smiled at me (that was just an amazing thing in itself!), “If I send the revival that I will be sending now, they will die.  My body is not yet prepared for what I have in store.  They have not been made ready yet for the fire I am going to send.”

I cried at this.  I my human mind I had tried to determine what God wanted to do.  I could hardly believe I had missed it.  “Lord, please let me be a messenger to help prepare this earth.  Let your words flow through my mouth.  God thank you for having mercy.”

Again he smiled at me.  “Fast, pray, understand the Word and you will understand me better.”  All I could do was praise and thank him for the things he revealed to me.

The next thing I knew Mr. Zettle was saying, “Sara, it’s time to go.”

Tuesday morning I was in the prayer room, praying for revival and preparation when the shaking and burning returned.  I heard the voice of God whisper in my ear that his fire was on me from then on and that he was going to fan it and make it better and bigger.

The shaking and burning lasted until Wednesday morning around 9am.  But, when I pray it comes again.  So, I don’t know.  I guess I’m just excited and ready for more of him.  The last things I want to leave you with are this.  First, ask for fire and God will surely give it to you.

Also, he is so real.  I’m praying that my testimony will be an encouragement to those who question God our doubt the power.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 at 3:30 pm.
Categories: Revival and Prayer.

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    John, I hope you are bringing all this fire back home with you! I am expecting to visit the third heavens and talk to Jesus during the Intro Orientation on Friday! ;-) No, seriously.
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    I'd like to add a comment.

    The burning and shaking I felt returned and has been continual for the past several days. It comes and goes everytime I pray now. The fear and presence of God has been ALL over me. It's amazing. The shaking and burning has been with me for most of this week ever since Monday night. :)

    It's so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!

    -Sara
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    Lizzy T.

    yes..this week has been totally amazing.
    i never understood what i was missing, the prophetic.
    thanks so much John for showing ihope that...
    the day you left was sad..:[ but God was there that night..
    i didn't get like any encounter or a breakthru..but i did pray for other people...it was pretty SWEET!!
    ha...
    my hands did start shaking pretty bad....so i was trying to touch as many people as i could so i could pass it on.
    well this is just the begining...
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    Hi IHOPE!! You have no idea how much you all blessed me! FIRE!! Keep the testimonies coming... God loves that! I can't wait to see you all again when I come in September.
    Brush your teeth, eat your Wheaties, CATCH ON FIRE!!!
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    My life is changed. I can't wait to be in God's presence.. He came to me in so many ways.. Not just during
    worship and prayer. He showed me himself and revealed things to me in the teaching classes. Also, in simple things like telling someone praise God after they got healed that, that saying is just not enough. Saying bless you after Esther sneezed, was just amazing. I shook, trembled, cried out in my sleep that he was coming, spook in tongues and swayed back in forth, in the bathroom even.. Gosh how amazing. I gave my first prochetic word and the young girl who I spoke to, confirmed it. God also gave me visions. Also before this Teen Intensive, a woman from our church gave me a word, deeper.. I prayed about it and wasn't sure what it was all about or what God wanted to show me.. But now i know.. God wants us before him night and day. John taught us so much.. To burn! I haven't stopped and I will not stop... I want more of him and only him.. I will not be satisfied with the lesser things..
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    Rob came up with a new slogan. Brush your teeth, FAST your wheeties, CATCH ON FIRE!
    Haha.
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    Heyy! That's my sister! ;]
    Wow. So God totally moved this week. A fire was started, and it is nowhere near dwindling. It's burning stronger and stronger with every minute that ticks by. My life wasn't just "affected-" I am permanently changed and the passion for God in my heart is growing and yearning and just intense!
    .......Get up...Brush your teeth........Eat your Wheaties.............CATCH ON FIRE.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    So Sunday is here and the IHOPE-Detroit internship has ended and we are all exhausted from such long days. God is still moving and we are tending the fire. Our local church had the normal services today and then we had the Bowl-a-thon to raise funding for our mission teams. Another event filled day.
    Off to the prayer house for a 7 to 9 shift and look who's there. RED LINE.....
    YES, YES, YES. Tending the fire we will.
    PEACE
    mt
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    So last week was amazing. the beginning for me was very dry. i actually got everything in the last three days.
    i was very bitter because i wasnt getting any fire or any prophecies in the beginning.
    i think it was the last night john was with us that i let go of all that bitterness.
    i prayed god would give me joy for my friends who were being touched and getting words. and that i would stop thinking about myself because its not about me its about god. and instantly i felt the joy and the love and the peace. it was awesome. and you could literally not wipe the smile off my face.
    it was great.
    and once i stopped worrying soo much about myself and started blessing others god blessed me.
    i learned a lot from this week

    all i have to say is

    WAKE UP, BRUSH YOUR TEETH, EAT YOUR WHEATIES(froot loops), CATCH ON FIREEEEE:]
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    the intensive was sweet!!
    God really made me have an urgency for more and more and more of him
    my eyes were opened to how much wisdom i lacked...so i started reading the book of John...not totally finished yet..but im working at it...

    oh and dont expect anything less of what God can do because he can blow your mind!

    Wake up. Brush your teeth. Eat your wheaties(cinnamon toast crunch). catch on FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!


    -Lizzy t. :]
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    As I was walking around drunk in the spirit I was just loving everybody. Liz Tacoma and Sara Pellerito were sitting on the stage. They called me over and Sara could not stop shaking and was getting hot even though she had goose-bumps. I thought it was great! John had been telling us that if we had a touch of the spirit like tingling or warmth and in this case shaking that we should impart it. I reminded Sara about it and so she asked John who was on the other side of me what she should do. He told her to impart it, and me, always willing to receive a gift from God said, “I’ll take some.” As Sarah began to pray for me I began to get warm too! God changed me in that instant. John prophesied to me about what God was doing in that moment. Hallelujah! I will never be the same again. I will no longer be held captive by what people think about me; my mind is totally changed and calmed. He also said that I would no longer look at myself in the mirror the same. I would from that point on see the fire in my eyes. This has proven itself true. God purged me with His fire miraculously. He not only can, but wants to do the same for you. In the midst of all of this Sara rolled up into a ball on the stage and was praying intensely. Not only was she hot now she was on fire. I want to stress this to you so that you understand. This wasn’t even just fever hot. I held my hand two feet above her and could still feel the heat coming from off of her. I made sure so that I could share this testimony accurately. I prayed for her and the presence of God was so strong on her I had to move across the stage because it was too strong for me to handle. I prayed for her from across the stage for a while before God said it was ok to go back over to where she was. Still, I knew that if I was experiencing what she was I would die. Literally my human body would die for the power of God and me not being prepared to handle it. This is something incredible. As she was praying in tongues it was a clear language untainted by misunderstanding. Not that I could understand it, but that she knew what she was saying and had purpose for it. This is what I discerned. In that moment I knew that she was talking straight to the face of the Almighty God. I told Liz, Carly, and Holly. I looked above Sara and it was almost as if a light was above her. I followed the light with my eyes up and up to where I could almost see to where she was in Heaven. It is only now that I realized this light I saw was a portal into Heaven. Like Jacobs ladder. At this point John came over again and knew that something very important was happening. He prophesied over her. Still I can’t comprehend what truly happened that night. What I do know is that Sara and I will never be the same. She shook with the power of the Holy Ghost for two days after that night and even when we were in the war room praying after those two days she would shake.
    Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they will see God.

    Trevor Carr

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