Kingdom Doors Opening for Austria: Revival Fires to Burn in Catholic Nation

While visiting The Father’s House church in Stockton, California, just over a week ago, we experienced an intense outpouring of prophetic revelation at a conference with Chad Taylor and local pastor Farris Baker. The church there ahs been in extended revival meetings. The unique nature of what God is doing (in a seemingly small area in a localized church setting) has been a heightened ability to prophesy about “about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings” (Rev. 10:11). The things being prophesied on Friday nights are appearing in the newspapers on Monday mornings. In a few nights, the Lord gave us a number of strategic words ranging from the California real estate market to governmental elections in the United States. We also received strategic insight into moves of God in Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America and beyond.

I would like to share with you just a portion of what the Lord gave us concerning eastern Europe and the Catholic church, which was confirmed immediately afterward through a sign in a secular news source.

On Friday night (Sept. 7), I saw the Austrian Parliament opening doors to the gospel. I also saw a brooding in the Spirit over the nation of Italy, where there was warfare in the heavens.

The next night, the Lord led us spontaneously to pray for Pope Benedict and we prophesied about a signs and wonders revival that is about to burn through the Catholic church. We repented on behalf of protestant believers for our disunity with Catholic brothers. Though we can acknowledge doctrinal differences, we asked forgiveness for the protestant tendency to criticize Rome – even going so far as to characterize them as the “whore church” of Babylon in the Book of Revelation. This age old bitterness has truly pierced the Lord’s heart. As His church body is torn, it is no different to Jesus than having the nails tear into his flesh on the cross all over again.

On the following Sunday (Sept. 9), I saw an article published by Agence Press France online only four hours earlier. Completely unbeknownst to us, the Agence reported that the Pope was just in Austria, strongly condemning abortion to members of government and the diplomatic corps at the Hofburg, the seat of the Austrian presidency in Vienna.

"The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself," he told the Austrian officials, reported the paper. The Pope also spoke against euthanasia and exhorted Europe to uphold its Christian roots. This apparently caused a stir, provoking Austrian Defence Minister Norbert Darabos to make a statement that he would not call for changes to abortion law.

I believe the Lord showed us this because Austria is positioned to see abortion overthrown, which could send shockwaves throughout Europe. This was directly connected with the brooding I saw over Italy, as well as a word delivered both by Chad and myself concerning the Vatican and a new reform movement that is about to sweep through the Catholic church. Austria is 67 percent Catholic.


We saw the fires of revival and reformation sweeping through the Vatican, and I also saw ancient books coming unsealed. The Lord showed me books hidden for centuries in the Vatican libraries that are about to go public, revolutionizing our expectancies for what God has stored up for these end times. We are about to read stories from church history that have been reserved for our generation, things God has done throughout the ages that have been hidden in reserve. I saw seals coming unlocked from these books and old dusty library rooms coming open.

As I reflected back on the day we prophesied over Austria, I remembered another prophetic picture we saw. Someone in our group had a vision of a hammer and a sickle – the hammer breaking open regions and the sickle swinging through the harvest fields for revival. Little did I know that the symbols on Austrian coat of arms are a black eagle holding a hammer and a sickle!


There is also a “revival connection” between Austria and other eastern European nations, particularly former Soviet bloc countries. Although on one hand there is a mounting wall of opposition to things of the Kingdom there, remember that there is a crack in that wall like a break in the dam. Let the waters of breakthrough come crashing through the levy!
Please keep Europe and the U.K. in prayer during this critical hour. I believe that in today’s climate of global communication, the destiny of America hinges interdependently on Europe more than ever before, and vice versa. Let’s keep pressing in until we hear the angel proclaim, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ” (Rev. 11:15).

Angels of Promise, Angels of Judgment Part II

It is one thing to put our trust in God, but it is another to enjoy the camaraderie of others in our quest for more of Him. Knowing that we are not alone in this fight infuses us with a sense of community and releases a commanded blessing that comes through dwelling in unity with others (Psalm 133). In the same way, the angels and saints make up the Cloud of Witnesses who are always surrounding us (often unbeknown), which should infuse us with greater endurance. They release tangible impartations and minister breakthrough, but it’s also just good to know that angels are watching your back!

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us (Heb. 12:1).

Right now, angels seem to be invading the affairs of men more than ever before. There are a great variety of tasks and assignments they perform. There are angels that function in each flow of God’s sevenfold nature (Isa. 11:1), including angels of revelation, angels of might, angels of wisdom, angels of knowledge, angels of counsel, angels of the fear of the Lord, and the Angel of the Lord. There are healing angels that show up on the occasional basis, as well as those assigned to permanently work with healing ministries (we operate with a number of these). There are little bartender angels, playful fat “Friar Tuck” sorts that minister the wine and joy of Heaven (we also operate with a number of these). In fact, there are far too many types of angelic hosts to list in one brief article: finance angels, Glory angels, angels of sovereignty, etc. There are angels that minister certain virtues and angels assigned to certain geographical regions.
Interestingly, there are angels assigned to specific types of miracles that require an override of the laws of physics. Angels are specifically assigned to enable supernatural abilities such as walking through walls, floating, glowing with luminescence, and other extraordinary acts as recorded in the lives of the saints both past and present. Angels have been showing up in a number of forums today, such as those in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho that have been dropping priceless, 50-carat gemstones in recent months. Angels can often materialize or create material objects. Many of us have seen angel feathers left behind in meetings, or as they swirl down from the ceiling at times of visitation. But angels can also bring food and other objects. In the life of Roland Buck (see his book Angels on Assignment), angels brought him food and drink at times that effected supernatural outcomes. For instance, after one of these angelic meals, Roland once lost five pounds a day until he dropped to a normal weight size. Our friends Gary and Sarah Morgan recently shared an encounter wherein angels came in and ate communion bread that was left out!

Stories of angels are without number in the history of God’s church. We should understand that He essentially does nothing without using his angelic delegates.

Bless the LORD, you His angels, who excel in strength, who do His word, heeding the voice of His word (Psalm 103:20).

We are in a time of great transition across the body of Christ, and this is why stories of angelic activity are becoming so commonplace. Angels are sent at times of major transition, just as they were when Jesus was born. Not only was the high-ranking angel Gabriel dispatched to announce the birth of Christ (Luke 1:26-33), but an entire heavenly host appeared as well (Luke 2:13). This is not to mention the angel that appeared to Zechariah, the three angelic encounters of Joseph and all the other supernatural activity at that time.

As angels press into earth in such a materialized nature, from spirit to substance, we can be sure that we are on the brink of serious times. In Genesis 19 when the angels came to Lot, they appeared in materialized form. “He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate” (Gen. 19:3). When angels enter this realm to such a degree – so materialized that they can even eat with you – judgment is at the door. Heaven has pressed into earth to such a degree that great shaking is at hand. In this particular story, Sodom and Gomorrah were burned to the ground.

I know other high level prophets today who have shared physical food with angels, just in recent months. Their stories are too complex to discuss here. But like the book of Acts, the church is stepping back into a realm where angelic interaction is not spooky or bizarre, but rather commonplace and ordinary.

Everywhere we travel these days, angels are coming into the meetings, pulling on people’s arms and legs, physically spinning them around and ultimately, launching them into destiny. Angels are likewise being assigned to those who are contending for the fullness of Kingdom power, in order to affect specific miracles such as bilocation, levitation and the like, to enable harvest Glory to spread throughout the earth. Although we are only seeing the first fruits of such interaction, we can be sure that the angels at hand are bringing us into the promised inheritance of the saints. When the angels appear, salvation, healing and deliverance is soon to follow.

I believe it is imperative that we begin to pay more attention to the realm of the angelic. Our ignorance of the angels has been one of the most devastating faults of the church.
How self-sufficient are our assumptions to think we do not need angelic assistance. Whenever someone speaks of them from a pulpit, someone inevitably trims the discussion, saying “All we need is Jesus. Don’t focus on angels.” Of course we focus on Jesus, but maybe he’s trying to inform us about something! We talk about people all the time in church. Most pastors have probably told more stories about their dogs from the pulpit than about personal angelic encounters. If the fear is idolatry, then I think we are more prone to worship people and dogs before we would worship angels, which we scarcely believe exist!

Likewise, we would never go as far as to reject assistance from fellow humans. But our rejection of angelic assistance is more a sin of omission than commission. Although few believers would reject an outright materialized angelic visitation, the truth is that all of us reject angelic assistance everyday by not volitionally choosing to step into the reality of their realm. Instead of waiting for angels to come into our world, we need to step up into theirs. When we walk in the Spirit, with our spirit eyes open in the seer realm, we are aware of angelic activity whether in the grocery store, a gas station, our workplace or wherever we may be. And when we are aware of angelic activity and we can see what Heaven is doing, we can then begin to partner with them.

"Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some [you] have unwittingly entertained angels" (Hebrews 13:2)

We often overlook direct interaction with angels without knowing it. We never really know how they're going to look. And we always have to be ready, because angelic encounters bring a test! Angels are good at surprising us. Jacob did not expect what was coming when the heavens opened and angels began ascending and descending in Bethel (Gen. 28:10-15). But Jacob put a landmark there, promising God that he would give Him a tenth of his wealth. Twenty years later, the Lord reminded Jacob of this promise, calling him back to the place of his visitation, telling him to return to Bethel and fulfill his vows. There was a cost to this visit. To enter the promises, we often need strongholds leveled within our own hearts!

Returning to the place of divine intimacy is the first step toward positioning yourself for encounter. God is after our heart, and hungry hearts will constantly search for Him. When we fail to find God in the busyness of life, we must often make a pilgrimage back to the place where we last saw Him.

God is calling us back to the place of visitation, back to the place of promise and back to the Secret Place where we last encountered Him. Don’t wait for a lightning bolt. You can learn to position yourself for angelic encounter, and even a visit from the Lord Himself, by returning to the landmark where He moved in your life before. As we learn to go back to the place of visitation, we can learn to have prolonged habitation with the Lord.

Angels of Promise, Angels of Judgment Part I

We are living in a strategic hour, when God is visiting His people and releasing supernatural inheritance on behalf of the saints. This is an era when revelation is becoming widespread among the church, but this is due to more than the fact that it is 2007. The strategic nature of the hour rests not on the natural calendar of time and history. Rather, our breakthrough stems from a positional, spiritual timeframe – that is, it’s a dimension called right now!

For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation (2 Cor. 6)

Right now, the heavens are opened over your life, because you have entered the realm of eternity in Christ and all things are made new. There is a place in the Spirit where even time and space bend, to allow access to the blood-bought children of God. Many are experiencing the fulfillment and manifestation of prophetic words and promises today, that have seemed locked away for ages. Angels of promise have been commissioned in this day, to pull timeless, positional authority from eternity into the present.

This is a time, both on the natural calendar, and in the now accessible realm of the Spirit, where words spoken over you, your family, your church and your region are coming to pass. You may have asked God, “When are we going to see those things which were promised by the prophets? When will this destiny word you gave me come to pass?” It is important to remember and ponder those prophetic words, promises and dreams the Lord has given you, which seem to have been blocked. The time is now, for breakthrough and change. One of the things being released to bring it all to pass is the supernatural intervention of angels!

Angels of Judgment Releasing Destiny

There are angels that release judgment to move you into your destiny, just as there is an appointed time in the Spirit where God says, “Enough is enough!” Remember that the judgments of the Lord are good! They benefit the saints and strike down the enemies of the church. These are warrior angels, angels of promise, which deliver the goods and clear a path for the fulfillment of God’s plans for your life.

Sometimes we grow weary in holding onto promises, because we do not understand the dynamics of angelic fulfillment. Remember that whenever God does a thing, he usually sends angels to do His bidding. And there are principles of breakthrough involved, which sometimes require us to wait for a season in the natural. It took the archangel Michael a time to break through, even though God had responded immediately to Daniel’s prayer. God heard Daniel’s prayer the first day he prayed. The answer was released in Heaven, but it took 21 days to get it to earth (Daniel 10:11-14).

Daniel had his answer in God’s eternal timeframe, but he still had to wait for a season for it to manifest. In the meantime, his prayer served as a midwife to pull Michael through the battle.

Whether or not a waiting season is involved, we should understand how angels are engaged in the delivery of answered prayers and prophetic decrees. Remember how the angel freed Peter from jail after the prayers of the saints? (Acts 12:5-13) Angels minister the breakthrough of God. As we partner with God with our prayers, this enables them to penetrate the second heavens more effectively.

Pressing in to Activate the Angelic

In Heaven, there are angels positioned to add the incense of our prayers with fire from the altar in the golden censer, which is then hurled to the earth, blowing open holes in the heavens (Revelation 8:3-5). Your prayers are like Holy Ghost gunpowder, to amplify the effectiveness of this angelic firepower. The more we contend on our knees, the greater breakthrough we will see smashing in from Heaven to earth.

The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much (James 5:16).

As we pray, we can’t pump anything up and make it happen. Your efforts are not necessary! But we can align with what has already been accomplished in the timeless realm of eternity. As we are pressing in for breakthrough and prophetic promises at this time, it is important to remember that we are not just praying to a ceiling. We are simply agreeing with what has already been positionally accomplished on the cross, and lining up the earth with the Heavenly answer. These prayers have already been released in the right now of that realm. We are not climbing a ladder in vain – in the Glory realm, our prayers are always effective! And we do not just fill these golden censers forever! There are angels constantly helping us, to tip them over and catapult them down, dropping fulfillment to words and answers to prayers like an air squad bombing the enemy’s coordinates! Our prayers release an initial conception in the Spirit, but we must continue to pray the answers through until birthing comes in the natural.

There is a true wind from Heaven on intercession in this season. For those who do not abandon the prayer closet, the spoils of harvest are yours. For those who are satisfied, they will find even the portion they have begin to dwindle.

Angels of Future Destiny

One of the things that diffuses our prayer is a sense of despair. We tend to think Heaven is sluggish and lazy with the answers to prayers, because up there, everyone is lounging around and no one is in a hurry. But this is not so. Angels are not just casually playing their harps on a cloud, ignoring your pleas to God. Did you know that these angels are already working ahead of you? It is you and I, rather than Heaven, who need to get on board with the promises of God. As eager as we are to move into the promises and inheritance, we rarely move our feet to start activating them!

When Jacob buckled down and decided to face his fears, confronting Esau and physically moving into the Promise Land, he was in for a complete surprise! For one, Esau was not angry with him. And furthermore, there were angels already there ahead of Jacob, waiting for him to align with his own destiny!

As Jacob was on his way into the Promise Land, the angels that were already assigned to Jacob met with those angels stationed in the land who were assigned to his prophetic future. This was the Mahanaim, “God’s army,” which were the two dancing armies of angels (Gen. 32:1-2, Song 6:13). This dance between the two armies of angels is a sign of fulfillment of prophetic promises. God has ranks of heavenly hosts already assigned to your future, as well as angels that are walking with you in the present. These angels are pressing in against the adversary on both sides of time until you get breakthrough. When the two armies penetrate the obstacle that is holding you back from destiny, there is great rejoicing.

Your angels are excited about meeting up with those angels waiting on you in your future destiny. Remember this: those angels of destiny are already yours! It is time to pack up camp and begin to move toward the promises. Help your angels out a bit!