 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.   |
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