Annie led group in worship…
♪ Jesus, You deserve all the glory… ♪
Pastor Ray…
Thank You, Lord. You deserve the glory and we give it to You. All the glory. Let us not take any glory for the things You’ve done and for what is happening in these days. You deserve all the glory and all the honor and all the praise. We worship You. We bow our hearts to You. Our Lord. Our Savior. Our healer. Provider and way maker. We rest in You. we trust in You. We rely on You. You lead us and we follow. Thank You for guiding us into all the truth.
I wanted to tell you about something I saw yesterday when we were in here. I got a little glimpse of the 120 up in the upper room. They were waiting on God. The fire came with a mighty sound. When the fire came, it split and fell on each of the 120 present. So it came down and it covered them. They were filled and then went out on the streets and Peter began to minister and thousands got saved. So it was sound, fire, power, anointing, filled, and declaring.
Yesterday I saw it happen in the opposite way. We began to pray in other tongues and from each one of us here, I saw it the other way, like the power is going out from each person pray-er and there are different things that are being prayed out. Because each one of us have a different supply. We have different giftings. When we’re in the spirit, we’ll use our tongues to pray out different things. That’s why corporate prayer is so important. There is power in it. Because more can get done than when only one prays. Anyway, I just saw it in reverse. Fire was coming out as the pray-ers were praying and then much more got done. I just believe it!
If I didn’t think we were doing any good, then I would quit. If we weren’t having any effect… I know we’re having an effect. When I hear about churches that don’t really have prayer, I think, “What?” That’s hard for me to wrap my brain around. Maybe that’s because of how we’ve been raised for years in this church.
Yesterday, we had brother Folu started to pray about the Church getting rid of its debris. While he was praying, I was thinking about the vision that Tommy Hicks experienced. What Folu was praying is part of Tommy’s vision. So we had Folu lay down and do a demonstration of the sleeping giant. You might have wondered, “What are they doing?”
Tommy was an important figure in the 1954 Argentina Revival. One thing that he got in his vision was the greatest thing that the Church has ever been given lies straight ahead. It’s a phrase he used. He said it is so hard to help men and women to realize and understand the thing that God is trying to give His people in the end times. I’m not going to read the whole vision. I just wanted to go over a couple of things in the vision.
Tommy Hicks’ Vision of End Times
As the vision appeared to me after I was asleep, I suddenly found myself in a great high distance. Where I was, I do not know. But I was looking down upon the earth. Suddenly the whole earth came into my view. Every nation, every kindred, every tongue came before my sight from the east and the west, the north and the south. I recognized every country and many cities that I had been in, and I was almost in fear and trembing as I beheld the great sight before me: and at that moment when the world came into view, it began to lightning and thunder.As the lightning flashed over the face of the earth, my eyes went downward and I was facing the north. Suddenly I beheld what looked like a great giant, and as I stared and looked at it, I was almost bewildered by the sight. It was so gigantic and so great. His feet seemed to reach to the north pole and his head to the south. Its arms were stretched from sea to sea. I could not even begin to understand whether this be a mountain or this be a giant, but as I watched, I suddenly beheld a great giant. I could see his head was struggling for life. He wanted to live, but his body was covered with debris from head to foot, and at times this great giant would move his body and act as though it would even raise up at times. And when it did, thousands of little creatures seemed to run away. Hideous creatures would run away from this giant, and when he would become calm, they would come back.
All of a sudden this great giant lifted his hand towards heaven, and then it lifted its other hand, and when it did these creatures by the thousands seemed to flee away from this giant and go into the darkness of the night.
Slowly this great giant began to rise and as he did, his head and hands went into the clouds. As he rose to his feet he seemed to have cleansed himself from the debris and filth that was upon him, and he began to raise his hands into the heavens as though praising the Lord, and as he raised his hands, they went even unto the clouds.
Suddenly, every cloud became silver, the most beautiful silver I have ever known. As I watched this phenomenon it was so great I could not even begin to understand what it all meant. I was so stirred as I watched it, and I cried unto the Lord and I said, “Oh Lord, what is the meaning of this.” and I felt as if I was actually in the Spirit and I could feel the presence of the Lord even as I was asleep.
And from those clouds suddenly there came great drops of liquid light raining down upon this mighty giant, and slowly, slowly, this giant began to melt, began to sink itself in the very earth itself, and as he melted, his whole form seemed to have melted upon the face of the earth, and this great rain began to come down. Liquid drops of light began to flood the very earth itself and as I watched this giant that seemed to melt, suddenly it became millions of people over the face of the earth. As I beheld the sight before me, people stood up all over the world! They were lifting their hands and they were praising the Lord.
At that very moment, there came a great thunder that seemed to roar from the heavens. I turned my eyes toward the heavens and suddenly I saw a figure in white, in glistening white—the most glorious thing that I have ever seen in my entire life. I did not see the face, but somehow I knew it was the Lord Jesus Christ, and he stretched forth his hand, and as he did, he would stretch it forth to one, and to another, and to another. And as he stretched forth his hand upon the nations and the people of the world—men and women—as he pointed toward them, this liquid light seemed to flow from his hands into them, and a mighty anointing of God came upon them, and those people began to go forth in the name of the Lord.
I do not know how long I watched it. It seemed it went into days and weeks and months. And I beheld this Christ as he continued to stretch forth his hand; but there was a tragedy. There were many people as he stretched forth his hand that refused the anointing of God and the call of God. I saw men and women that I knew. People that I felt would certainly receive the call of God. But as he stretched forth his hand toward this one and toward that one, they simply bowed their head and began to back away. And each of those that seemed to bow down and back away, seemed to go into darkness. Blackness seemed to swallow them everywhere.
I was bewildered as I watched it, but these people that he had anointed, hundreds of thousands of people all over the world, in Africa, England, Russia, China, America, all over the world, the anointing of God was upon these people as they went forward in the name of the Lord. I saw these men and women as they went forth. They were ditch diggers, they were washerwomen, they were rich men, they were poor men. I saw people who were bound with paralysis and sickness and blindness and deafness. As the Lord stretched forth to give them this anointing, they became well, they became healed, and they went forth!
And this is the miracle of it—this is the glorious miracle of it—those people would stretch forth their hands exactly as the Lord did, and it seemed as if there was this same liquid fire in their hands. As they stretched forth their hands they said, “According to my word, be thou made whole.” …
I realized that I never saw a church, and I never saw or heard a denomination, but these people were going in the name of the Lord of Hosts. Hallelujah!
As they marched forth in everything they did as the ministry of Christ in the end times, these people were ministering to the multitudes over the face of the earth. Tens of thousands, even millions seemed to come to the Lord Jesus Christ as these people stood forth and gave the message of the kingdom, of the coming kingdom, in this last hour. It was so glorious, but it seems as though there were those that rebelled, and they would become angry and they tried to attack those workers that were giving the message.
God is going to give the world a demonstration in this last hour as the world has never known. These men and women are of all walks of life, degrees will mean nothing. I saw these workers as they were going over the face of the earth. When one would stumble and fall, another would come and pick him up. There were no “big I” and “little you,” but every mountain was brought low and every valley was exalted, and they seemed to have one thing in common—there was a divine love, a divine love that seemed to flow forth from these people as they worked together and as they lived together. It was the most glorious sight that I have ever known. Jesus Christ was the theme of their lives. They continued and it seemed the days went by as I stood and beheld this sight. I could only cry, and sometimes I laughed. It was so wonderful as these people went throughout the face of the whole earth, bringing forth in this last end time.
As I watched from the very heaven itself, there were times when great deluges of this liquid light seemed to fall upon great congregations, and that congregation would lift up their hands and seemingly praise God for hours and even days as the Spirit of God came upon them. God said, “I will pour my Spirit upon all flesh,” and that is exactly this thing. And to every man and every woman that received this power, and the anointing of God, the miracles of God, there was no ending to it. …
Suddenly there was another great clap of thunder, that seemed to resound around the world, and I heard again the voice, the voice that seemed to speak, “Now this is my people. This is my beloved bride.” And when the voice spoke, I looked upon the earth and I could see the lakes and the mountains. The graves were opened and people from all over the world, the saints of all ages, seemed to be rising. And as they rose from the grave, suddenly all these people came from every direction. From the east and the west, from the north and the south, and they seemed to be forming again this gigantic body. As the dead in Christ seemed to be rising first, I could hardly comprehend it. It was so marvellous. It was so far beyond anything I could ever dream or think of.
But as this body suddenly began to form, and take shape again, it took shape again in the form of this mighty giant, but this time it was different. It was arrayed in the most beautiful, gorgeous white. Its garments were without spot or wrinkle as its body began to form, and the people of all ages seemed to be gathered into this body, and slowly, slowly, as it began to form up into the very heavens, suddenly from the heavens above, the Lord Jesus came, and became the head, and I heard another clap of thunder that said, “This is my beloved bride for whom I have waited. She will come forth even tried by fire. This is she that I have loved from the beginning of time.”
If you would like to read Tommy Hicks vision in it entirety, click here.
Pastor Ray shared…
There is more to it. He dreamed it two nights in a row. Another man had a similar vision. Demos Shakarian. He formed the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International. He said the best and greatest times are ahead. It’s so important that we don’t look back on the things that were negative, the attacks, times the Devil tried to get in the way. It’s so critical for us to focus in on today and into tomorrow. And let our prayers and our declaration go forth to make a way where there was no way. But we must also take our rest in Him. The comfort of the Holy Spirit is ours and He is working in us today. Rest in the Lord and know that He is working it out. So take comfort and rest in Him.
Annie led group in worship…
