For the past week leading up to the beginning of May, I have felt such an expectation that this month and beyond were going to REVEAL or MANIFEST what God has been doing behind the scenes in all of us but also in the earth. It’s like the heavenly strategy room finally giving its keynote speech to the earth and the Father revealing rolling out the blueprints for the outpouring we are about to see. It’s both personal and global, it’s both strategic and militant, and yet also full of encounter and the baptism of love. I’ve been fixed like Elijah’s servant looking at the horizon for a sign of rain, watching and praying over the earth in eager expectation that what may be small droplets of rain will become a flood in the nations in the days to come.
The words I keep hearing over and over are “unlikely” and “unusual”. Unlikely means “not probable or expected” and unusual means “different from what is usual or expected” and right now God is about to show up in power and magnificence in ways we didn’t expect or believe he would or could move. So I want to speak into the month of May simply from the perspective of this outpouring of God.
THE UNLIKELY HOUR FOR A SWIFT OUTPOURING
“This is the awakening before the outpouring” I kept sensing in February, not knowing the full extent of what was about to come but I could feel the deep unrest in the spirit like the very tectonic plates of the earth were shifting and moving to accommodate something God was preparing. Then a few days into the global lockdown God said one thing clear to me “This is not what you think it is” and I knew He was wanting me to focus my attention on what He was doing, not what was going on around me. I needed to get still. Then I had a dream one night where my phone alarm went off and I woke up. I went back to sleep and it happened again, and then again for a third time, then the Lord spoke: “Sound the alarm, I am awakening my church, and readying my horses for battle!”
“Blow the trumpet in Zion, sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble for the day of the Lord is coming. A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains. A people come, great and strong, the like of whom has never been; nor will there ever be any such after them, even for many successive generations. A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns; The land is like the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; Surely nothing shall escape them. Their appearance is like the appearance of horses; and like swift steeds, so they run. With a noise like chariots over mountaintops, they leap, like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array” Joel 2:2-5
This outpouring of God like it’s a mighty wave or tsunami that has been building up, building up, building up and now it’s about to crash. Recently as Christy and I were praying we both went into a vision at the same time. She suddenly yells out “SWIFT!” and as she did I went into a vision and I saw an angel running so fast that its legs looked like wheels of fire, and it was running along a gushing bursting river. I knew right away that this angel was an angel of the swift moves of God that were beginning to burst forth in this season. But as I looked closer I noticed that what looked like river rapids or waves were also shaped like wild horses running like a stampede into the earth. After the vision I said to her ‘What did you see?” and she said “The swift angel again!”
“I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing” Ezekiel 13:3
This outpouring is strangely timed yet is more strategic than we can comprehend right now, and it is unusual because the way it will present itself will not be like what we have seen before. We don’t yet have a grid, in fact, we are all still trying desperately to let the old grid go. For the past year especially God has been trying to show us that we can’t look to the mold of the last move because the ark is no longer there, it has moved.
UNUSUAL MOVES IN UNLIKELY PLACES
For years now I keep seeing wildfires in the spirit burning in millions of locations all over a map when God is speaking to me about this outpouring. In past moves, revival has been in specific locations that people have flocked to and I still believe we will see more of that, but like a river spreads and breaks off into smaller rivers, then into creeks, and streams, so this rushing river is going to spread and manifest in the earth. The reason I keep say “moves” instead of “move” is because this is an outpouring of the spirit of God contains many, many moves of God. Many, many revivals, expressions, and flavors of the kingdom of heaven that we are about to see. These moves of God are about to show up in the most unlikely places and in the most unusual ways. There are cities that are ripe and ready but have been overlooked or not stewarded well but God has been re-positioning and relocating people to move into kingdom governmental roles to steward these moves in their region better.
These will be unlikely moves because the places God moves will be in places many in the body of Christ have overlooked or underestimated. They have said “That place is a place of sin” and yet God had not forsaken it. They have said “God could never move there or change and transform that” yet this is the hour He is shining His light even brighter in the darkness.
This is a multi-denominational, multi-stream move of the spirit of God, in fact, there are denominations and streams that are about to experience a move of God so powerful and profound that initially people will be skeptical because of their theological beliefs and yet the expression will be very real. This is the Joel 2:28 outpouring that comes for all and reveals itself in unique and unusual ways. Was the upper room “usual” and “normal”?
The most unusual expression I keep seeing is the outpouring of God in the secular spheres where God visits people in government, media, universities, Hollywood, and in other arenas and we will see unusual moves of God erupt almost overnight simply because it is time!
Lastly, God is pouring out His spirit upon YOU in an unusual way right now. Let me ask you, do you feel the internal shaking and deep heart-work right now? God is preparing you to be a move of God. This is your personal revival - it’s the awakening and recalibration of the church back to the feet of Jesus and the commissioning of harvesters for the harvest. It will disrupt your life because it is meant to. You can’t sit on the couch and watch this one on God-tv, God is removing your ability to sit when you are called to stand and there is an invitation to you to be on the frontlines again.
UNLIKELY HEROES RISING UP
As I was praying into our second season of school starting the spirit of God fell upon me heavily and I began to prophesy not just over our students but also corporately over the earth;
“Here they come! The unlikely ones, the misfits, the overlooked! Here they come! They will be like David, the unlikely king, the unlikely warrior, the unlikely victor, the ones that were overlooked and called useless and hopeless. Here they come! They are the carriers of the pure voice of the Lord leading the church back to the feet of Jesus. They are the igniters and fire-starters of revival in the nations. They are the ones who have been silenced and constantly muzzled and sent back into the wilderness by the religious voices or the insecure. They are the ones who have been broken and shipwrecked, pushed to the side, and underestimated, but NOW HERE THEY COME! The wild ones are rising. The undignified ones like David who had nothing but a harp and a sling, but they will take down giants, smash through immoveable doors and walls, command mountains to move, and lead the church forward into victory!
God is raising up the unlikely ones right now just like David who was the last pick to be king yet God chose him to lead a nation into its finest hour. Right now there is a changing of the guard because God needs worshippers, kings, and priests to lead the body of Christ forward. I say this respectfully but the kingdom of Saul has had its day. The wineskin has burst and we can't operate how we have done. We must be a generation living at the feet of Jesus not basking in the sun of ministry accolades. God is resetting the affections of the body of Christ and he is using these unlikely heroes to lead the body of Christ out of dysfunction and back into focus with the heart of the father.
They are the river of wild horses who aren’t in union with the culture of the world but are in-sync and flow with the river of the spirit of God that is building, rising and flowing into the nations. They are the cool drink of water to dry and thirsty land, and we are seeing them rise! No this is not an hour to stop your flow but to raise your voice and release what you have been carrying into the earth!
UNUSUAL TOOLS & METHODS
At the moment I am writing this word we can’t host tent revivals, we can’t fill churches and overflows, and we can’t gather in fields or stadiums. The church has officially left the building and while I know that’s momentary it has initiated and ignited unlikely and unusual moves of his spirit in homes all around the earth using all kinds of online digital platforms to do it. Over the last few months, we have all had to adjust in many different ways and pick up different tools and methods to do life as well as kingdom. Years ago when God told us to build a school and community online we had many tell us it was not of God but now we are glad we continued to build anyway! But I believe this is only the beginning of the different ways God is about to move and the avenues He is going to use to reveal Himself. Jesus says this in Matthew 13:33”
“The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pound of flour until it worked all through the dough.”
God is working the kingdom of God into every facet of the earth right now and He will use unusual ways and methods to get it there. After I prophesied about the unlikely heroes I heard the Lord say “unlikely heroes, unusual tools” and I wrote these points down about David and how it corresponds to now:
UNUSUAL WEAPONS - David used unusual tools for his conquest - not the normal weapons of His day for battle. He used a sling and stones which was normally used to protect sheep and deter predators not fight giants yet it was the right tool for the task and David obeyed God. The unlikely heroes of this hour will arise with unusual tools and methods to reveal the King of Glory. Will we recognize them when we see them?
AN UNUSUAL SOUND – When David hurled his sling in the air in that valley it would have created a sound like rushing wind. He didn’t use taunts or scream obscenities back at goliath, He let the sound of his unusual tool of choice fill the air. The unlikely heroes of this hour carry a new sound, and in this season the soundtrack is changing and a new sound is going to fil the air and the airwaves as a sign of this new era, new day, and new outpouring.
UNUSUAL ARMOR – When David rejected Saul's armor it was not a dishonor but a realization of different wineskin. David wasn’t called to do battle and rule the kingdom like Saul, so it wasn’t that his armor didn’t fit, its that it was not the right armor for the NEW era He was announcing that very day. Don’t be afraid to say no to the old methods and ways of the old era because by doing so you are not dishonoring those who have gone before you, but stepping into the new wineskin for this hour.
AN UNUSUAL MOTIVE – I heard the Lord say that the greatest distinction of the unlikely heroes is not methods or tools, but of the heart. God is raising up these unlikely heroes who are lovers of God, not ministry or even lovers of serving a role or purpose. Their motive is different, they live for the King and nothing else. In this mighty outpouring, you will see them and discern them because they cant be bought, they aren’t looking for a platform and because their motive is pure God will take them before Kings.
OPEN UP THE GREENHOUSES – BOOTS ON THE GROUND
So get ready body of Christ because the rain is here and it is heavy rain ready to drench the dry and thirsty land. We are right now in preparation for these moves of God and it’s about to be boots on the ground time for the church, unlike anything we have seen. As I have been writing this I keep hearing “Open up the greenhouses!” It’s time to create safe places for these unlikely heroes to be trained, equipped, raised up, and championed. I see these greenhouses as places where God will fast-track what He has been incubating in them, and every seed that has been planted will suddenly blossom and bloom. May is the start of the revealing of sons of daughters in a powerful way, so get ready for the influx of wild horses into places of influence. Apostles, prophets, evangelists, teachers, and pastors all suddenly ripening at the same time for maximum kingdom impact. The fields are white and we are ready regardless of what crisis the enemy throws our way, regardless of persecution and opposition we face WE ARE RISING UP!
Religion can’t hold us or contain us anymore, we are leaving the side-lines, letting go of the scraps from the table and taking a seat at the table. Church.. in all your beautiful streams, flavors, and expressions, …It’s your time
