What Heaven is Saying Today
I woke up hungry again this morning: hungry to be in the presence of the Lord. As I studied the Word this morning, my hunger continued to grow. Shortly after going into our worship room, I went face down covered with a large Tallit. I prayed to the Lord, saying that I just wanted to be in His presence this morning. Suddenly I went into a powerful vision. I was standing before a huge wall of fire. The fire was moving in waves from my left toward my right. As the waves came across in front of me, I saw that they rolling and tumbling with great power. I thought about the description of the Lord in Exodus 24:17-18a, “The sight of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain.” I was very grateful for the answer to my prayer, but now I had a different issue. What was I supposed to do in the presence of this consuming fire? I prayed to the Lord and asked if this was the fire of judgment or the fire of revival. The Lord said, “Both!”
Before I could fully get the meaning of this, the vision shifted. I was under a tree looking up at the leaves. In the vision, the season appeared to be early spring. As I watched, it became spring, early summer, and mid-summer. I heard the Lord say, “Things are going to accelerate. Harvest time is coming, and people are not ready for it. Many are just trying to enjoy the good feelings of the seasons.” I thought about how some people easily get focused on the flesh and the pleasures of this world. Many of these pleasures are not bad by nature, but anything which distracts us from our purpose and our destiny needs to be avoided. I felt an urgency in my spirit for people to be ready for the harvest season which is already upon us. I thought about what Jesus said in Matthew 9:37-38, “Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”
In both visions, I sensed a strong call to the intercessors to be fervent in prayer. As I considered the fires of judgment, my thoughts went once again to Jeremiah 5:14, “Therefore this is what the LORD God Almighty says: “Because the people have spoken these words, I will make my words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes.” I sensed that the Lord wants us to release fire which will burn away those things which hinder people from their destiny. I also thought about what the Lord spoke in Ezekiel 22:30, “So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.” Are you ready to stand in the gap as the fires of judgment flow over the land? As I thought about the fires of revival, my thoughts went to Hebrews 12:28-29, “Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.”
May we experience great grace as we serve the Lord in the harvest season which is already here! Remember Acts 4:33, “And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all.” This is the season of great power for the harvest and great grace to win souls for the kingdom of God. I pray that the Lord will bless our service and add daily to the number of those who accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Amen and Amen!!!
James
Pastor James Durham
Higher Calling Ministries, Intl
P.O. Box 292335
Columbia, SC 29229-0335
May the Lord bless you and keep you,
May the Lord make His face to shine upon you
And be gracious unto you,
May the Lord lift up His countenance upon you
And establish for you Shalom, Shalom, Shalom!