It’s exciting to see what God is doing in New
England.
Please Read the
Vision Related Below!!
Since I move in prayer circles, I get to hear a lot
of dreams and visions. I rarely share them via this group but I received one a
few weeks ago that directly touches on what we're doing this fall with Restore and applies to us as a region. I receive it from Mike Thorton, leader of the
North Carolina team that's bringing a tent and 70 people to pray for 5 Days. Take
a minute to read it (below and attached)—I think you’ll be encouraged that God is really serious about this idea of Restoration not only at this historic campus, but for us as a region!
Northfield: A Quick Update and Request for Prayer
-----We now have over 100
people coming for the 5
Days in the tent at Northfield. God has
been moving on people’s hearts and they’re coming out. We anticipate
this number growing over the next month. We’re rejoicing that so many
are coming. We
need prayer for housing and accommodation for so many people during a
busy
holiday weekend.
-----The Alliance Convening team is meeting tomorrow
to discuss the RESTORE gathering. Please
pray for us to have wisdom as we plan this “New England Family Reunion”.
-----Participating Ministry: We’d love to hear from
you if you’d like to sign-on as a participating ministry for Restore. We’ll circulate a letter, written by Dr.
Miranda, with all of our signatures in the weeks leading up to October 12.
Here’s the Vision from North Carolina!
Vision Background: Michael Thorton, who is
leading the team from North Carolina that is bringing the tent shared this
remarkable "open vision" from a woman in her early 20's named Laura Johnson,
someone who is an intern at their church. She had been away on a missions
trip to Trinidad and shared this vision with Mike on returning.
She knew that the Jesus Tent was going to Massachusetts from a posting
online, but didn't know anything about the location, DL Moody, Northfield, etc.
I double checked and their posting didn’t mention Moody. Here's what she saw: I've lightly edited for grammar.
Pay special attention to the fourth and final paragraph:
God showed me a vision of The Jesus Tent in Massachusetts on 8/24/16. The
vision goes as follows:
The tent was set up on the field and it was the first night of the five
days it would be set up. The worship team had already begun worship and the
tent was full of people. The Lord led me outside of the tent and I was
now standing in the field looking back at the tent. In the spirit I saw a Dam that Satan had built to halt
the move of God and His plans for the region.
On the Dam, demons had graffittied their assignments, which were:
witchcraft, social injustice, racism, riot, hate, etc... I then asked
God, "How do we break this Dam?" God then replied back to me, "2
Chronicles 7:14." I now go back to the tent and Pastor Mike Thorton hands
me the mic to lead prayer. The prayer begins and all that are under the tent are
warring and breaking generational curses and strongholds. The Holy Spirit was
moving, people were getting saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit. We all lifted up our
voices in Unity and cried out for healing in the region.
I then again was led outside of the tent. I saw in the spirit the
Dam break and when that happened it sent Satan into a tantrum. He fell down and
whaled in agony, flopping his hands and kicking his feet. This sent his demons
into confusion and they started beating each other up. I now go back to the
tent and everyone is worshiping. Each person had a stream of water flowing from
their belly. Each individual stream met up in the air and formed a river. This
river flowed up to heaven, to the throne room, and rested at the feet of Jesus!
Then, a multitude of Angels descended from Heaven and they were flying over the
tent and were running their hands through the river. They were singing praises
unto God, "Holy, Holy, Holy!" They were rejoicing!
The vision now changes. The Lord
showed me a man (during the 1800's period), sitting at a desk. A piece of
paper was on the desk and he was writing with ink and a quill pin. He began
writing a vision, a story that God had given him for this region. Each line on
the paper represented a generation. After a few lines were written, this man
stopped writing. The pen was put down and the ink dried up. Then I saw a young
hand. This young hand picked up the quill pen, dipped it into the ink - which
was revived, and began writing the vision again. "" End of
vision.
When the vision was over, I wanted to know who the man was in the vision
that started writing the story. I then did a google Image search and found
it to be D. L. Moody!
As Michael told me, Laura was
completely amazed when he told her that the Tent would be set-up on the campus
founded by DL Moody. She had no idea, but that was a powerful confirmation of her
vision.
I'm encouraged by this
that God indeed wants to revive and restore not only the campus, but also the
regional legacy of DL Moody.
- Jonathan Friz