 In November of 2016 I completed the image that you see above. It is based on a vision that God gave me. This image is a photograph of the original 3" x 4" board. God said to me "America shall be saved. America shall be washed in the blood of Jesus Christ." He told me to decree over America "I will give to you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I will remove from you a heart of stone and give to you a heart of flesh." Ezekiel 36:26 EXPLANATION OF THE IMAGE The heart of America is not dead. It is partly hardened and frozen. There are two halves of the heart which depict that there is a war for our hearts. Satan wants our hearts to be full of hatred toward God and one another. God wants our hearts to be filled with love for Him and for one another. The fire represents the Father’s love, which is going to sweep across America, and melt the heart of America, causing it to beat with love for Him and for one another. PRAYER Pour out Your Spirit Lord. Turn our faces back to You and heal our land. Forgive us of our rebellion. May we hear Your voice and harden not our hearts. Create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us. Open our blind eyes and deaf ears. Cause our hearts to be open and soft, so we will turn back to You and You will heal our land. Prayer based on the following verses: Acts 2:17; 2 Chronicles 7:14; Hebrews 3:7; Psalm 51:10; Acts 28:27 DECREE I decree over America, God is going to give to you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. He will remove from you a heart of stone and give to you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26 NIV Following the creation of the U.S. map image, I came across a prophetic word given by Veronica West and published on Elijahlist on July 5, 2016. I feel this word confirmed to me that I was hearing God correctly. "On a recent afternoon while walking on the beach as I do most days, I was suddenly overwhelmed by a deep sense of urgency to pray again for the American people. As I began to cry out to the Father for this great nation, suddenly the Holy Spirit showed me a very powerful and poignant picture. I saw the nation of America in the shape of a large heart. I looked again and I saw that the stony heart was deeply cracked and badly broken in many places, and the heart of stone was brittle and looked very fragile. Now as I looked again at the brokenness of the heart, suddenly I heard the sound of deep laughter that came out of the heavens and I saw the Father’s tears rolling down His beautiful face. I watched as His tears fell upon the hard stony heart. Then I saw the heart of stone begin to move, shift and change in appearance, and with every tear of joy that fell from the Father’s face the heart of stone began to be healed and fully restored. I watched closely as the heart became fully immersed and saturated with the Father’s tears. Each tear of joy was life-giving. Each tear was a death blow to the destructive plans of the enemy. I then saw every deep crack and badly broken place within the heart suddenly and completely renewed, revived, restored and made whole. The Father laughed! My own heart leapt for joy as I heard the Father’s laughter and I saw His tears of joy falling upon the great nation of America. I was filled with great confidence and great assurance that Christ has ultimately triumphed over evil in this great nation and any defiance of Him and His will, plan, purpose and Kingdom destiny for this nation is futile! I saw the Father sitting high in the heavens. He was calm, unthreatened and unmoved by what the enemy is doing and how the enemy is moving! Who can oppose the awesome power of our God? The Almighty One does not even rise from His throne, but He sits and laughs in derision at those that would seek to stand against the power of His glory and grace in the nation of America in this hour. I decree: In this season the broken heart of America will be healed, revived, restored and renewed to the glory of God!" Scripture verses: * Ezekiel 36:26 “I will give to you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove from you a heart of stone and give to you a heart of flesh.” * Job 5:22 “At destruction and want you shall laugh.” * Psalm 2:4 “The One enthroned in heaven laughs in derision at His enemies.” Veronika West @ www.hiskingdomprophecy.com Israel Shall Be Saved In January of 2022, while in prayer, I felt God put it on my heart to create a new image based on the U.S. map vision, but of the nation of Israel. In addition, God burdened my heart to pray for Israel and He did this through various means. For instance, God spoke to me through a dream in which I was pregnant with 2 babies; one that was much bigger than the other. Also, one day during my morning prayer I felt God speak to me after reading the verse from Psalm 2:8, "Ask it of Me, and I will certainly give the nations as Your inheritance." Suddenly, a prayer came from my lips to God, "Give me America and Israel." These are just a few examples of ways that God has burdened my heart to intercede for Israel. DECREE I decree over Israel, God is going to give to you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. He will remove from you a heart of stone and give to you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26 NIV PRAYER Father, You are the God of Israel and they are Your people. You named them though they did not know You. Lord, cleanse them from their iniquities and pardon all of their sins. Save them with an everlasting salvation. Raise them up in righteousness and direct all of their ways. Redeem Israel out of all of their troubles. Be a shelter for Your people and the strength of the children of Israel. Bring health and healing to them and to their land, revealing to them Your abundance of peace and truth. Let the eyes of their understanding be enlightened. Give them the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Let Israel be to You a name of praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth. Proclaiming all the good You do for them and causing fear and trembling among the nations because of all the goodness and prosperity You provide for it. Restore everything that has been removed from them. Send them grain and new wine and oil to satisfy them. Make their enemies to be at peace with them and no longer let them be a reproach among the nations. Seek out Your sheep and deliver them from the peoples and countries where they were scattered and bring them to their own land. I pray for the peace of Jerusalem; may they prosper who love you. Lord, cause their enemies to cease from the land. Make them and the places all around Jerusalem a blessing and cause showers of blessings to come down in their seasons. Let Your people dwell safely in their land, delivered from trouble from all the kingdoms of the earth. * Every line of prayer is from scripture. * Author unknown. Click video below for the audio version of the above prayer. Created by and read by Holly Otten.  Fruit basket, Licensed with Shutterstock Sally* flew alone from Utah to DC for the 4-day national prayer gathering Communion America. On the day she arrived she headed to the National Mall for the main rally that was scheduled between 7 and 9:30 p.m. As the prayer and worship commenced at 10 p.m. in the 50 tents representing the 50 states, Sally stopped in at the Volunteer Tent and told them that she’d like to volunteer. She thought that perhaps she could help collect garbage on the grounds of the Mall. However, staff responded, “We are going to send you to the RI tent to pray as this tent has no one to lead in prayer and worship from 12 to 2 a.m.” Sally said, “Ok, sure.” While Sally was making her way down the Mall to the RI tent, I was worshipping in song with 3 other people during the 10 to 12 a.m. set. I hadn’t planned on being there because I had made a date with my warm and cozy bed for 9 p.m. I was extremely tired from the day’s events and wanted to be rested up for the following 3 days’ activities. However, my plans were obviously not God’s plans. You see, He happened to answer my prayer when I asked Him to lead my steps throughout the 4-day event and one of His plans was for me and Sally to meet. So around 9 p.m., when my hotel roommate was preparing to lead in the RI tent, Holy Spirit prompted me to join her. I thought, “I’ll just stay an hour, until 11:00.” Later I realized that that was another Holly idea, not God’s. At 11:40 p.m. while I was singing my heart out to God, I opened my eyes and saw a radiant young woman standing close to me and she too was worshipping God. I watched tears silently fall from her face. When our group broke into spontaneous prayer, Sally too lifted her voice in prayer, and it was obvious to me that this was one fiery GenZer! From that moment I felt drawn to Sally like a magnet. At 12 a.m. when our set was finished, I introduced myself to Sally and then immediately, I felt the Father’s love bubbling out of me and over Sally. As Sally received words of love and affirmation from the Father, her eyes became waterfalls of gratefulness. God’s love was bringing healing to Sally’s heart and she knew it. She said to me, “God is healing my heart.” I told her that my ministry’s mission is to heal hearts of survivors of sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She responded, “I was sexually abused as a child and I was trafficked from the age of 17 through 24.” It was then that I understood that this was a “divine appointment.” Prior to our parting, Sally and I exchanged phone numbers and then she said, “I love you.” How could this be? We just met minutes ago! But I too shared the exact same sentiment, so I responded to Sally “I love you.” Later that evening I felt that God said to me, “Sally is the fruit of your prayers.” Not only my prayers however, but the prayers of the faithful intercessors who have been praying alongside me for the past 5 years on the monthly prayer call 50 States Nightwatch, whose mission is to pray for an end to sexual abuse and sex trafficking. When God called me to start this national prayer ministry, He said to me, “If you want fruit then you have to get to the root.” This means to pray and fight to drive out the spirits behind sexual abuse and sex trafficking in America. These past years intercessors have been faithful to stand at the gates of America and fight alongside me, month after month, year after year, yet rarely seeing the fruit of our prayers, but believing that God has heard every prayer and is moving on our behalf. Every so often we will observe a victory, such as in the passing of a new law or the exposure of a human trafficking ring, but then there are times, when God not only allows us to see fruit from afar, but to taste the fruit—to touch the fruit—to embrace the fruit…like Sally. What joy! What a gift to me and my fellow intercessors! Thank you Father for giving me the privilege of meeting Sally and the opportunity to see Your glory manifest in her. After hearing her testimony over the phone, it is nothing short of a miracle that she is not only still alive but possesses her sanity. When I look at her face and hear her voice, I don’t see or hear the ugliness that she experienced. I only see Your beauty in her face and I only hear the voice of a grateful, sweet and joyful young lady, free from chains of bitterness and regret. I give You thanks and praise Father, and I am thankful that I get to be Sally’s mentor in this next season. Please continue to use me as Your instrument of love. Amen. *Note-Sally is not the actual name. The meaning of the name Sally is Princess and this young lady is truly the beloved daughter of the King. She says to the Shepherd-King... "I am truly his rose, the very theme of his song. I’m overshadowed by his love, like a lily growing in the valley!" He says to her... "Yes, you are my darling companion. You stand out from all the rest. For though the thorns surround you, you remain as pure as a lily, more than all others." Song of Songs 2:1-2 TPT Here is my video journal of Communion America, October 9-12, 2025, from the perspective of the Rhode Island tent and its prayer and worship teams.  Legacy Church RI baptized 93 people on August 27, 2025 at Rocky Point Park, Warwick, RI. "We have this hope as an anchor of the soul." Hebrews 6:19 It was 2013. I was just beginning to walk in my God-given destiny as an intercessor. While in prayer, I heard God tell me to go to the food court inside the Warwick Mall, in the city of Warwick, Rhode Island. I asked others to go with me, but found no one, so I went alone, with the promise from my pastors that they would cover me in prayer. I walked around the giant food court with its 2-story glass ceiling, praying and listening to my Lord. I had done this for about an hour and then decided to take a seat. While sitting, I saw an open vision of a giant wave. It came from the right side of the food court and its height reached the ceiling. Selah. I didn’t hear anything or see anything else. Minutes later, I saw a guy whom I knew so I went over to say hello. While we talked, he took out his phone and I noticed the image on his screen. It was an animated picture of a giant wave! One of the prophetic meanings of a wave is a mighty move of God. This is something that I have longed to see in my state. I was born in Providence, Rhode Island 58 years ago, born-again at age 16, filled with the Holy Spirit at age 22, and have interceded for my state and contended to see revival and reformation for the past 12 years. A few years ago, while attending a National Day of Prayer gathering at my Capitol building, I suddenly remembered standing on the Capitol steps as a 10-year-old Girl Scout and holding the RI state flag with it’s image of an anchor and its motto of HOPE. Twice I moved out of RI only to move right back within a short period of time. I’ve come to realize that I was created to intercede for my beloved Little Rhody. This is my destiny. Two days ago, I received the fruit of my prayers! On August 27th, 2025, I witnessed 93 people get baptized in the ocean at Rocky Point Park, a place that my family frequented in my childhood years. Rocky Point is located in Warwick. My church, Legacy Church RI, is located in Warwick. The friend whom I saw in the food court is a current member of Legacy Church. At the time of the vision I was in a different church and Legacy Church was in a different city. Since, they’ve moved to 2 other cities, landing them in Warwick, the same city where my vision took place. Only today had it become clear to me why God told me to go to Warwick Mall, where He gave me the vision of a giant wave. The vision from 2013 was meant for now. Two weeks prior to the baptism, I spent some time praying at the new Legacy Church building and this is what I heard in my spirit: “I see the city of Warwick coming back to life. I hear the sound of awakening.” I shared this with our senior pastor, Ron Termale, also a native of RI and contending for revival. Two days ago, as I drove to the baptism, I saw a license plate on the car in front of me that read WAVE33. The number 3 is symbolic for the Trinity─the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and also of the resurrection power of Jesus Christ. I knew when I saw this license plate that God was speaking to me. It also made me think of a song that I have been listening to as of late. Its title is Another Wave, and it's sung by Lindy Coffer. The lyrics explain exactly what God is presently doing in my state. “Here comes another wave of revival. Can you feel the earth shaking? The time has now begun…Ready or not, here I come. Nations will be swept up, souls will be won. I've heard My people cry, ‘Someone come save us’…Here comes another wave.” As I continued to drive to the baptism and reached the city of Warwick, I witnessed a rainbow in the sky. Tears immediately began flowing because I knew that God was speaking to me once again. The rainbow’s symbolic meaning is that God is faithful to His promises. I felt that God was saying to me: “I told you there would be a move of God. It is here.” I have seen God move in RI through my church in the past several years and I have rejoiced in that, but I now realize that what we experienced then was only the beginning. In 2022 and 2023, our quarterly baptisms averaged approximately 20 people. Last year, in 2024, we baptized 45 people, then 55, and then 23, all within a span of 10 months. It just keeps getting better and better. ~~~~~~~ I stood on the beach, grinning from ear to ear, taking as many photos as time allowed. I couldn’t get enough of capturing the joy on the faces of the newly baptized. I saw brown faces, black faces and white faces. I saw innocent faces of children, youthful faces of Gen Z(ers), mature faces of parents and wise faces of grandparents. The one thing they all had in common was joy. The joy that comes from being freed from the heavy weight of sin; the joy that comes from feeling clean, fresh and new; the joy that one experiences when they become dead to sin and alive in Christ. At one point in the evening, I leaned over to speak to my friend and intercessor; one who has spent years praying for our state and her resident city of Warwick, and said, “Prayer changes things.” She looked back at me with a huge grin because we were receiving the fruit of our prayers. I was happily surprised to see certain people that I knew getting baptized. There was a new church member whom I have been discipling since she arrived at our church. I greeted her with a huge hug and congratulated her. She told me that she came all by herself, without family or friends to share in her special moment. Later, she told me that she was happy to see a familiar face and to receive the pictures that I took of her while getting baptized. I witnessed the joy on the face of my friend who saw the fruit of her prayers because her 13-year-old son got baptized. My favorite one was of a young woman who came out of the water with a huge smile on her face. She then walked to the shore with tears streaming from her eyes. Midway she stopped, looked up, and then placed her hands together as one does in a prayer. She took a few more steps before dropping to her knees and bowing her head. She then held out her hands and appeared to pray a silent prayer. I sensed that she was overwhelmed with gratitude because she had the realization of the mercy and love of God. After the 93 were baptized, I noticed the sun just going down over the horizon. My attention went towards God. I lifted my hands toward heaven and prayed, “Alleluia! Glory to God! Lord Jesus, You are mighty! You are awesome! We thank you. We love you!” Following my prayer, I went home but could not sleep for hours because my spirit was still dancing for joy and singing the Lord’s praises. Today, I just couldn’t keep quiet. I had to tell about the marvels of God. I hope that this brings the reader joy and increases faith to believe that if you pray and contend for revival, you will see it. Don’t give up. God is faithful to His promises. Afternote I am grateful that my family has been blessed by the Legacy Church family and I’d like to give honor to Apostle Steve and Nancy Boyce, founders of the New Life Church Family, with 5 campuses located in RI and MA. I’d also like to give honor to our Legacy Church senior pastors Ron and Lori Termale; our assistant pastors Jared and Natalie Burrows and Josh and Christiana Boyce, and our beloved youth pastors Davy and Jenny DaSilva. They are carriers of the fire of God, contending and sacrificing their lives in order to see revival in our state of Rhode Island. Thank you and may God bless you. Watch highlights of the Legacy Church baptism now by clicking on the video below.  Listen to this message on YouTube. I, Holly Otten, am the founder of 50 States Nightwatch, an intercessory prayer ministry, and author of the book Diary of an Intercessor. I was present for the following 3 prayer strikes or prayer gatherings where the Body of Christ in New England came together. These occurred within 5 days and were held on each day between May 17th and the 21st. At the 3rd prayer strike, I heard God reveal to me that a New England Revival Baby had been birthed. This was confirmed to me in several ways, including by global intercessors who sensed the same thing. 1. The Body United facilitated by Pastor Josiah Armstrong Crossing Life Church, Wyndham, NH, May 17-19, 2025. 2. New England Roar facilitated by Holly Otten 50 States Nightwatch Prayer Strike, Salem, NH May 20, 2025. 3. Regional Leaders’ Prayer Breakfast facilitated by Ed Pichette Together Advance the Gospel, West Warwick, RI, May 21, 2025. This piece will explain in detail my involvement as an intercessor in each of the 3 prayer strikes and the revelations given to me by God, as well as through others whom I was in partnership with. ******* #1 The Body United: New England Map Prophetic Image and Prayer Tract (See image and prayer at bottom) Josiah Armstrong, pastor at Life Crossing Church, asked me to bring the NE tracts that I created to The Body United gathering which he told me to place on chairs, for the participants of the Prayer for New England segment of the summit held on the 19th. During worship, I went into a travail while sitting on the ground of the tent. When I finally opened my eyes, I saw a NE tract sitting on the ground in front of me. When I saw the tract, I knew that I needed to go to the front and ask Josiah if I could read it. I shared with the group about the prophetic image, what I felt God was doing in NE, and then I led the group in the prayer on the back. Lastly, I read the decree below the prayer: “New England shall arise and shine and the glory of the Lord shall rise upon her” (Isaiah 60:1). When I returned to my seat, I went into a long and lasting travail. I felt that the travail had to do with the NE tract, and that my 3 friends and intercessors seated with me were my midwives. I also feel that a dream that God gave me days earlier was related to this assignment. In my dream I saw 4 ticks come out of a hole. They were being exposed—forced out of hiding, and they were running away in different directions. I first called them spiders, but God revealed later that they were ticks, because ticks embed themselves under skin, and are hidden. The prophetic meaning of the number 4 is related to God's glory as referenced in Ezekiel 44:4. In the days leading up to this assignment, 3 out of 4 in my group who were heading to the conference with me, had tick bites—2 that were deeply imbedded and took extensive time to dig out, and 1 that led to symptoms of sickness. My interpretation is that God was going to expose and drive away wicked spirits over New England. On the NE tract, words and the prophetic picture depict just that message. I explained to the assembly the meaning of the picture, stating, “God’s light is driving out darkness from New England,” and quoted the verse from Psalm 68:1 which states, “Let God arise and let His enemies be scattered.” The ticks in my dream were actually scattering! I believe that one of the “ticks” is the spirit of Religion. Only 1 month earlier, on April 6th, while worshipping God, I heard in my spirit, “Religion is coming down over New England.” Those words reminded me of what I heard Chuck Pierce say when he visited Springfield, MA 3 months earlier. Regarding New England, Chuck said, “The religious spirit will back away.” I shared these things on the weekly New England Alliance prayer call led by Gregg Healey and I prayed a prayer of repentance on behalf of the Church for quenching the Holy Spirit. #2 New England Roar: The Healing of Hearts of Blacks & Whites in the Church in NE On the morning of the 20th, I invited my 3 friends and intercessors to join me in my hotel suite because God had a prayer assignment for us. This small group of female intercessors have been praying for months for The Body United gathering and for unity amongst Blacks and Whites in the Church in NE. We also represented 3 states in NE. Days earlier, God gave me a dream in which I saw 4 women lying prostrate on the floor and travailing. Again, the prophetic meaning of the number 4 was related to God's glory. "Behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord" (Ezekiel 44:4b). We began with worship and immediately the tears began to fall. God’s presence and glory crashed in on us and we found ourselves on our knees or prostrate on the floor. I began with reading the piece that I wrote entitled “One Family in Christ,” based on Ephesians 2:13-21 TPT. My prayer partner and I had been praying these verses during the 5 weeks prior over The Body United gathering and the Church in NE. Within this piece, the words “Jews” and “Gentiles” were replaced with Blacks and Whites. It also includes this declaration: “The Black and White communities in the Church of New England are one family in Christ.” I knew that this was one of the reasons that Pastor Josiah Armstrong called for the NE gathering. It was a burden that God placed on his heart, and mine too. God placed this same burden on my heart when I attended A Million Women in October of 2024 in DC. While in DC, I met a group of women: 3 black and 1 white. The women told us they were like family. The teen daughter of 1 black woman was calling the white woman “Aunt Pam,” even though they were not biologically related. At 1 point Pam began to prophecy over me. She said, “God is going to use you and your healing ministry to bring healing to the Black and White communities.” These words instantly sent me into a travail. (My husband and I lead Tin Man Ministries, with a tag line that includes the words “Healing Hearts,” and its logo is a heart with a cross inside. Soon after returning home, I heard Josiah announce The Body United gathering. I knew at that moment that I was meant to intercede for it and to attend it. While praying with my 3 friends in the hotel, I concluded the reading of my piece and its declaration, and then instantly fell into a long and lasting travail while prostrate on the floor. When the travail lifted, I declared aloud, “The gates of hell shall not prevail against God’s Church” (Matthew 16:18). God also led me to read aloud a commentary of the Ephesians 2 passage by Albert Barnes. Within this text is the following, "The best way to produce peace between alienated minds is to bring them to the same Savior. That will do more to silence contentions, and to heal alienations, than any or all other means. Bring people around the same cross; fill them with love to the same Redeemer, and give them the same hope of heaven, and you put a period to alienation and strife." God highlighted to me the word “period,” with its meaning referring to “It is the end” or “It is finished.” I realized then that a circumstance from the day before was actually prophetic. When I called the hotel to confirm my reservation, they couldn’t find my name. Eventually the clerk found it and told me the reason she didn’t find it at first was because the computer listed a period before my name. When I told my 3 friends this, one said that her friend and intercessor recently wrote a piece in which she shared that God spoke to her about the prophetic meaning of the period. I feel that what God was saying is: “I brought healing to the hearts of the Blacks and Whites in My Church in NE.” It is done. Period. The day that I returned home from The Body United, I watched the finale of American Idol which was aired Live the day before. I watched the TV screen and saw the 2 finalists—1 black man and 1 white man. The black man, named Jamal Roberts won, and was invited to sing his finale song and first record release which is entitled “Heal.” It is a prayer to God, asking Him to heal our wounds. The last line of the song says, “You’re the only One who can do it.” This song on YouTube received 3 million views in 1 day. Every day for the next 7 days, I played this song and every single time, I sobbed. I knew in my spirit the cause of my tears. God did it. He brought healing to the hearts of those that had been wounded within the Black and White communities in the Church in NE. This needed to happen for God to have the unity that He desired in His Church, and in order for the NE Revival Baby to be birthed. God confirmed to me this revelation over and over in the days following. He reminded me that as I dressed for The Body United, He led me to wear my necklace that has very large diamond-shaped hearts. I didn’t know that day why He wanted me to wear it but came to realize that it was prophetic for what He was doing spiritually in His Church. During my 1st travail while worshipping at the gathering, I had a vision of a volcanic eruption, with lava pouring down over NE, and I knew the lava represented God’s hot liquid love that was melting hearts. Following this vision, I leaned over and told my friend what I saw. Then I lifted my heart necklace to show her what God led me to wear, and when I did, she almost fell to the ground. She had to hold on to me in order to stay erect. The hearts on my necklace represent the healed hearts of the Blacks and Whites in the Church in NE. Further confirmation came during the week following the gathering, in which I saw hearts every day and everywhere. I also heard lines in songs that spoke of God healing hearts. #3 Regional Leaders’ Prayer Breakfast: The Birth of a New England Revival Baby On Monday of The Body United, during the prayer gathering for New England, Greg Johnson founder of Revive New England was invited to share about the New England Revival Covenant that God laid on his heart. Following, leaders came around Greg to show their support of him and his initiative to bring unity in the Church and revival to New England. A term was used by Jonathan Friz (founder of 10 Days of Prayer) when he prophesied and prayed for Greg, which was regarding Greg birthing a baby. When the prayer gathering ended, we all took seats at tables where we would have lunch. When I pulled out my chair, there was a pink and white baby bootie. I knew it was prophetic, so I placed it inside my purse with the thought to seek God about it at later date. Later Monday evening, while at the final message of The Body United, Greg’s assistant and intercessory prayer leader travailed in depth and heard in her spirit, “No more still-births!” I remember praying similar words only months earlier on the New England Alliance prayer call when I heard in my spirit, “There will be no abortions.” While driving home from The Body United on Tuesday the 20th, I noticed a baby horse in a field. Hours later, one of the 4 intercessors with me in NH, sent a video of a baby female horse that had just been born on her sister’s ranch. I knew that God was speaking. I also learned that night of the Regional Leaders’ Breakfast (hosted by Ed Pichette, founder of Together Advance the Gospel) planned for the following day. I asked God if He wanted me to attend the breakfast, and on the following morning, I felt God telling me to go. I thought it was very interesting to see Josiah Armstrong at a gathering in RI, as well as several other regional leaders. I rarely see leaders come from other states to my little state of RI. As the breakfast commenced, I was surprised to see, once again, Greg Johnson being introduced and asked to share about the New England Revival Covenant. And once again, during the introductions, I heard terms related to Greg giving birth to a baby. At the end of the breakfast, Ed Pichette led in a final prayer. It was at this time that I prayed a prayer in my heart. “Lord, don’t let this revival baby die.” “Wow!” I thought to myself, “Where did that come from?!” I had never thought it prior to this moment. It was from God. God then brought to my memory a dream that my friend and intercessor told me years ago regarding the death of a New England Revival Baby. She was an intercessor for the late John-Paul Jackson, of Maine. They had joined in prayer strikes in Boston led by Lou Engle in the early 2000’s, which led to the birth of a revival. However, this revival lasted only a short time. In her dream, she was in heaven and saw many babies. They were revival babies that died and each one had a name at its head. She saw a New England Revival Baby and heard God say, “The Church didn’t take care of it, so it died.” As the breakfast closed, I went to Greg and shared with him what God had revealed to me, that a revival baby had been birthed. It was only then that I realized who the baby bootie was for, so I gave it to Greg. After sharing the dream with him, I prayed, “Lord, I pray that the Church will nurture and care for this revival baby and help it to grow. I pray that the Church not let it die.” Greg responded by telling me that he and his wife were in the process of adopting a baby girl, and then he prayed to God that just as he did not birth this natural baby, but was committed to care for it as if he had, that the churches would care for this spiritual baby as if it were “their” own. Also important to mention is that God revealed to me the reason why He chose the image of a baby horse. It is because a baby horse rises up on its legs, begins to walk and run within minutes of being born. This revival baby will grow with speed. IF the Church in unity, chooses to nurture it, care for it, and take responsibility for it. After Note: This morning, the day that I sat to write this piece, a friend and intercessor from North Carolina sent me a picture of her grandbaby girl who was born just this morning. God is speaking. Do we have ears to hear? I decree this New England Revival Baby will live and not die. It will be loved, cherished and nurtured by the united Church in New England. Sign the Covenant to link arms with Brothers and Sisters in Christ across New England as we agree in prayer to seek the Lord for revival and reformation in our region.    As a revivalist and intercessor, I had cried out to God many times… “Pour out Your Spirit Lord,” God’s promise found in Joel 2, as well as Acts 2. I very much desired to see God’s revival rain poured out on my family, town, state and nation. I prayed day and night to see others experience the love and mercy of God, like that of which I have experienced. But one day while reading the Word of God, I felt God say to me, “You need to call down the fire of God before you call down the rain.” If the wicked spirits and principalities aren’t driven away from a territory first, e.g., a person, church, neighborhood, city or nation, then the spirits will have free reign to extinguish the Holy Spirit. I had been reading about Elijah in the book of First Kings in which Elijah prays to God to send the much-needed rain to his land which had experienced a 3-year drought. Yes, we need to pray for the rain of the Spirit to fall and bring life to the dead and lifeless people, churches, and nations. But often, some time after the Spirit has fallen upon a person, church or city, there is a lack of evidence of the Holy Spirit’s presence and power. The once fiery flames die down to warm embers or even worse, cold ashes. How many of us have seen this happen? In a loved one who spoke in tongues and couldn’t stop telling everyone about Jesus? In a church whose doors didn’t close because there was a constant flood of desperate ones desiring to worship Jesus? The reason why Holy Spirit is quenched is because there was an existing hidden spirit or principality there prior to the Holy Spirit outpouring. I prayed for my family member Johnny¹ to come to church and he finally did! Then I prayed that Johnny would be baptized in the Holy Spirit and what joy I experienced when months later, I saw Johnny prayed over by a pastor for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I wept as I heard Johnny speak in tongues. In the following months, I witnessed Johnny behave in a whole new way. It was wonderful for me to see His zeal for God. But eventually, Johnny went back to behaving like his “old self.” The zeal was gone. As I prayed and sought God, He revealed to me that Johnny had a spirit of religion that had entered as a child, when he was a member in a church that also had a spirit of religion. This spirit had been hidden prior to Johnny’s baptism, but it got busy to quench the fire that was ignited after he got baptized in the Spirit. God burdened my heart to pray and drive out that wicked spirit and eventually, God gave Johnny the victory. Johnny is once again on fire for God! Years ago, I prayed to see God’s revival rain fall on my church. My pastors went hard after this. They opened the church to 24/7 prayer and lingered in our church services, waiting on God to pour out His Spirit. We travailed on our faces on the floors of the church on many occasions. And then… it happened! We had Holy Ghost-filled services every night for 3 weeks and evangelistic outreach teams were sent out all over the state each day. The church and the people who came were on fire for God and they earnestly sought to bring that fire to the lost souls throughout our state. But within a year or so, the fire died down to cold ashes. As an intercessor and seer in this church, God showed me there was an existing hidden spirit—the Jezebel spirit—a principality that caused the fire to be quenched. After I read about Elijah calling down rain from heaven, I then read about how he called down fire from heaven in First Kings, chapter 18. It’s a story about a showdown to prove who was more powerful—God or Baal. God gave Elijah the victory. Elijah’s enemies—who were God’s enemies—were defeated. We learn from reading the Word of God that He uses His fire to defeat His enemies. “Let God arise. Let His enemies be defeated…As wax is melted by fire, let the wicked perish before God” (Psalms 68:1-2). “Fire goes before Him and consumes all His enemies…Mountains melt like wax in the presence of the Lord” (Psalm 97:3, 5). In the book of Second Kings, chapter 1 we learn how Elijah called down fire from heaven to burn up 2 captains and their companies of men who were sent by the wicked King Ahaziah. God’s fire is a weapon. It is used to bring defeat to His enemies. I feel that God has used His Word to teach me the importance of praying to drive out the enemy from a territory before I pray for the outpouring of His Spirit. I am to do this concerning people in my life, my church, my neighborhood, town, state and nation. Wherever God sends me and to whomever He sends me to. My prayer is, “Lord, show me what’s hidden. Shine Your light on the dark places where the enemy his hiding” (Mark 4:22). After God reveals to me a spirit, I ask Him its name. Then I ask God to give me a strategy to defeat the spirit, which always includes God’s promises from His Word. And lastly, I intercede─WAR ─ to see this spirit driven out. I don’t stop interceding until God tells me that I’ve had the victory. After God gives me the victory, I then give Him thanks and praise, and I’m certain to give Him all the glory! Every circumstance where I’ve seen a victory, I’ve seen a mighty manifestation of fruit for the Kingdom of God following. It is glorious to witness and a privilege to be used by God in this way. Alleluia! All glory be to the Father, to the Son and to the Holy Spirit! Notes 1. A fictious name.  “As silver is melted in the furnace, so you will be melted in the midst of it.” Ezekiel 22:22 Recently God led me to watch one of my favorite classic movies, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” Narnia was under a curse, released by an evil queen. It was always winter; everything was cold or frozen, and there was very little life on the land. But as soon as Aslan the lion, who represents God, stepped onto the land of Narnia, the curse of winter was broken. The snow and ice began to melt, flowers began to bloom, and fresh green grass began to grow. There was new life in Narnia. Similarly, there is a lion, the Lion of Judah, who is walking the earth, and breaking curses off the land and people. He is melting the hearts of nations and their peoples, in the hope that hearts will turn to Him and be saved, and lukewarm hearts will burn with love for Him. God desires that our hearts not be hardened and rebellious. He desires that our hearts be like water in His hand, yielded to His will and purposes for our lives. In Proverbs, we read, “Like a stream is the heart of the king in the hand of the Lord. Wherever it pleases Him, He directs it” (Proverbs 21:1). God doesn’t only desire this of kings, but of all people. Throughout the Bible we learn that God is not pleased when we harden our hearts. One such verse states, "Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion" (Hebrews 3:14). It is Satan’s desire that our hearts be cold and hard-filled with hatred for God and for one another-and that Christ-followers be resistant to God's will or complacent. What melts things that are frozen? Heat. Fire. The hearts of nations have been frozen; hardened toward God. How does God melt frozen hearts? By releasing His fire. Nations are being melted by fire. In America, there are antisemitic protests and murders of Jews. We are seeing actual fire in America’s streets, where there are riots filled with people who are rebelling against the laws of the government and of God, including violent acts committed against civil authorities. There have been violent acts committed against lawmakers and their families, including murder. Even in these circumstances, there was actual fire, in the context of a handgun being fired. There are active wars in Europe and Asia, with actual fire seen in the streets of Ukraine and Russia, Israel and Iran. Israel was violently attacked by Hamas and is currently at war to destroy nuclear capabilities in Iran. Christians are being martyred regularly in many nations, including Mozambique, Nigeria and Kenya. I am not suggesting that God sent these circumstances, as God gives His people freewill, but I believe He has allowed them, and I understand it to be His “merciful judgement.” The author Dr. James Marocco of “Hawaii’s Great Awakening” tells of how a tidal wave hit Hawaii in 1837 which led 99% of the people to receive salvation; and prior to the tidal wave, the missionaries there were having little to no effect. Dr. Marocco states, “People realized their need for God when coming so suddenly close to death. The revival increased in intensity because God’s third part of the Great Awakening, His merciful judgement, had taken place.”¹ Likewise, related to the Asuza Street Revival in California, an earthquake occurred just after the Holy Spirit fell, causing a desperate people to turn towards God, and this led to a mighty harvest of souls for Jesus. Most recently, I have observed in the past 5 years a great harvest of souls in America, since the Covid outbreak. I've witnessed God's merciful judgement in my own life when my 81-year-old mother turned to Jesus while battling cancer, a lukewarm family member became on fire for God when diagnosed with a disease, and a young trafficked woman got free from her abusive trafficker when her mother turned her into the police for committing theft. This led the young woman to call out to Jesus and she received salvation. The Lord told the prophet Malachi, “Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord” (Malachi 4:5). The great and terrible day is now. Great, because God’s fire melts hearts and causes them to turn to Him to receive salvation, and it also causes lukewarm Christians to cling to God at a greater level. Terrible, because God’s judgement is being released. God’s judgement is symbolized by fire and I believe it is being released over the whole earth. “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and evildoers will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,’ says the Lord of armies, ‘so that it will leave them neither root nor branch’” (Malachi 4:1). God is a consuming fire and His fire cleanses and purifies. “For He is like a refiner’s fire and like launderer’s soap…He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the Lord offerings of righteousness” (Malachi 3:2-3). God desires to burn up all wickedness, right down to its root. Then holiness and purity can grow in the hearts of nations and their peoples. I decree God’s fire is melting the hearts of America, Israel, the whole earth. The hearts of nations and their peoples will turn toward Him and be saved.  1. Hawaii's Great Awakening by Dr. James Maracco, Bartimaeus Publishing, Kahulu, Hawaii.   A teaching based on Mark 5:1-20. Most Christians know of the account of the Geresene demoniac as told in 3 of the epistles. Jesus traveled across the lake, met a demon-possessed man (2 men as told in the book of Matthew), drove out the demons and the man returned to his right mind. As I studied this account found in Mark, Matthew and Luke, I came to see that not only was 1 man set free from a legion of demons, but so was an entire region. Prior to Jesus arriving on the scene, the demoniac was impacting the entire region, or Decapolis, which consists of 10 cities. The book of Mark uses the word “region” 3 times and the term “Decapolis” 1 time within the account. We read in the book of Matthew, “They (demons) were extremely violent that no one could pass by that way” (Matthew 8:28). With this in mind, we can imagine that this affected citizens who traveled from the surrounding cities. In the book of Luke, we learn that the man had to be kept under guard (Luke 8:29). They tried to keep him chained up, but he broke the chains off (Luke 8:29). He was a menace to society. Because Jesus drove the demons away from the demoniac, the region also became set free and then evangelization could take place and bear fruit for the Kingdom of God. We see this happen as told by Mark, “And he went away and began to proclaim in Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him” (Mark 5:20). When God delivers a city, state, region or nation, expect to see a mighty harvest of souls! Principalities hinder people from receiving salvation, so when the united prayers of the righteous reach the ears of God, He sends His angel armies to drive them out, which opens the way for the reaping of souls. Evangelists, like the reformed Geresene demoniac, share the Gospel with others and the message is received because the hindrances have been removed. I believe the Lord revealed this teaching to me and used it to show me when He had delivered a region, city or state that I was interceding for. The first time is when I traveled to DC for the national prayer gathering led by Awaken the Dawn in 2017. I feel that God showed me that through those 3 days of non-stop prayer and worship, He drove away principalities or wicked spirits from DC. He also showed me in a vision prior to the gathering, people getting hit by the Holy Spirit and thus coming to Jesus. More recently, God used this account in Mark 5 to show me that He delivered my region of New England from principalities after there was a 3-day gathering in New Hampshire where believers throughout the region joined together to pray and worship God. God’s Word tells us, “The heartfelt and persistent prayer of a righteous man (believer) is able to accomplish much (when put into action and made effective by God—it is dynamic and can have tremendous power)” (James 5:16 AMP). We also learn from God’s Word of the value of the body of Christ being united. In Psalms 133 we read, “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for the brethren to live together in unity… It is like the dew of Hermon coming down upon the mountains of Zion; For the LORD commanded the blessing there—life forever” (Psalms 133”1,3). God’s power is released when the body of Christ unites in prayer. |
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