This is an account of one of the prayer assignments that The Lord had me carry out for Woodford in Queensland. Woodford hosts the largest folk festival in the southern hemisphere each year in the summer and also hosts another event called “The Burning Man”.
Just a little background first. Around two years ago The Lord had me on an assignment to awaken and take back the region in which I live Moreton Bay(formerly known as Pine Rivers) and to prophesy awakening over our city of Brisbane. The details of these prayer assignments have been separately recorded and just briefly, involved me going to strategic places around the border of the Pine Rivers region and into strategic places in the city of Brisbane and prophesying the Scriptures that The Lord had given me; laying claim to the region for The King and His Kingdom as one would extend out tent pegs to “stake a claim” and take back land that had been “stolen”, in specific Redcliffe (I have since discovered that Redcliffe was the first landing place in Queensland of the settlers from the British fleet of convicts) and Woodford; a seemingly unassuming insignificant town on the extreme city fringe
When I visited Woodford on the initial prayer journey I walked through the town, prophesying and calling for awakening to God’s Love and claiming the land back as my inheritance in The Kingdom. Toward the end of the walk, something caught my attention. It was an advertisement for a festival “The burning man festival”. My Spirit was irritated and I had a sense that there was “unfinished business” and knew at that time that I would need to return. I also wanted to find out where the Woodford folk festival was held and physically walk on the site and take it back for the song and dance of The Lord. I felt that I had to find it and sing and dance on the land. I didn’t have the revelation then that The Lord has unfolded to me now about the significance of “the song and dance of The Lord” and the “REFORMATION” that He is bringing…the New Structure of the true church that is Worship centred in the pattern of Davidic Worship. The revelation has been progressive. As I have obeyed The Lord in the “doing of the assignment” He has rewarded me with the revelation of the purpose of it. As He has said to me…” the greatest sound and light show is coming to earth. Get ready” . On the initial visit to Woodford, I thought of “Woodstock” and how somehow these festivals were alike although my knowledge of these festivals is at best sketchy. It was more of a ” knowing” of some sort of connection and “the spirit of the festivals” bringing a false message of “love” and “freedom”….satans counterfeit. Over the next year or so I would say from time to time to my husband “I must go back to Woodford” but life being as it is( I work full time and have three children still living at home etc) it just didn’t happen yesterday. Still The Lord has His perfect time and there is no doubt in me that The time that He availed me was His perfect time.
Since the initial visit was associated with the prophetic purpose of “awakening”. The Lord began speaking to me about “doors” and “portals”, which is more extensively described in a previous journal account but the time came recently (about two months ago” that The Lord said that I must go and prophesy Psalm 24 over the places He would direct me. I have discovered by the unfolding revelation that the places where He sent me were “portals” or“gates of the city” possibly “gates to the nation”. I will not elaborate on that here but Woodford was one of the three places that The Lord emphasized that I must go. There was an urgency about it too. I “just happened to have a week of annual leave at the end of July and so I had some time to be able to carry out some prayer assignments.
I knew that I had to Prophesy Psalm 24….Lift up your heads oh you gates, Be lifted up you ancient doors that the King of Glory may come in. Who is this King of Glory; …. The Lord STRONG AND MIGHTY.
The Lord also gave me songs to sing on the land. “Morning has broken”, many will be familiar with the old Cat Stephens song. Morning has broken, like the first morning Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird Praise for the singing, praise for the morning Praise for the springing fresh from the word Sweet the rain’s new fall, sunlit from heaven Like the first dewfall, on the first grass Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden Sprung in completeness where his feet pass Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning Born of the one light, Eden saw play Praise with elation, praise every morning God’s recreation of the new day – See more at:
I was to prophesy a new day and a “new creation” over the brokenness and chaos of the earth. I was to prophesy “truth” and “true freedom” and “life” and “light” and “sound” and “the song of The Lord” to invade the land.
The night before going to Woodford, at about 11 pm, I was praying and asking The Lord what else He would have me to pray and prophesy over the land. I didn’t have my usual bible next to my bed so I rummaged under the bed for another that I rarely use, but the Lord had set this up. I pulled out the bible and opened up where there were two sheets of folded foolscap paper. On those sheets was an account of a prophetic experience and word for Australia that Chris Harvey had been given by Bob Jones a couple of years or so ago. I recalled that a friend had posted it to me but until I found it, I had no recollection that I had it or The content of it. As I read it, it confirmed to me that there was a connection between this prophecy, Woodstock” and The Woodford folk festival”. The Prophecy to Chris Harvey is as follows: copied and pasted from the Pour it out Church website on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland
After receiving a word to go to the seer’s house in South Carolina in September 2009 I finally obeyed God as I am not in the habit of breaking protocol and just turning up at somebody’s residence especially anointed servants of God.
We arrived at Bob’s residence and he told his wife to let my wife and I in because he had been waiting for us. As we walked in I said I am an evangelist from Australia his response was to say no more I already know that God told me you were coming. Sit down and I will do the talking.
The first words that Bob said were you are in the will of God in Australia stay there because we had moved back there four and a half years earlier after living in the states for 10 years. He said Australia is spiritually asleep and God was about to wake her up. He said that we had been sent back to wake her up and we had nearly fallen asleep ourselves because of the apathy down under. He said your biggest enemy has not been the world, but divination through controlling leaders in the churches.
We had just previously been doing a conference at All Nations Church SC. Pastor Mahesh Chavda informed me that there had been a lot of angel activity around their church lately, and he had recently had a vision of an angel that was covered in red dust, which was bizarre because the day before we returned to Sydney was when the big red dust storm hit town.
In one of those meetings at All Nations Church, we had a powerful visitation of God’s love where everybody was weeping including myself. Just before this move of the spirit, I felt something land behind me at the pulpit, it was sudden and frightening. It felt like a massive bird had landed behind me I could not see anything but felt the wind and the presence. I thought it was an angel but knew in my spirit for some reason it was an eagle. It seemed to have a wingspan of 40 feet which came to mind when it happened.
With no knowledge of me and these meetings Bob looked at me and said I have one question for you how wide were the wings of that eagle that landed behind you at the pulpit on Rosh Hashanah, which is the spiritual new year for the Hebrews. I replied I wasn’t sure but it seemed like 40 feet he looked at the other man in the room at the time and said see what I had told you before they came into the room.
He said do you realize what these two things mean no I said
- The number 40 speaks of one generation
- Rosh Hashanah date change has gone from 5769 to 5770
Then he asked me do you know what happened in 69’ I did not have a clue Woodstock the Rock & Roll festival at Bethel New York he replied. Then he said it has been 40 years since then until now which is one generation and he pointed to my wife and said that’s your birthday August 16th in Australia but August 15th in America because of the time change, the 15th of August 1969 was when Woodstock started, and a whole generation of people were lost out of that new mindset that came into the earth.
But now God is about to do a new thing. There is going to start a spiritual Woodstock in Australia he never gave me a date or day but he said it will come and the church will not be ready for it. The thrust of it will come out of free worship it will go to the open fields, because buildings will not be able to contain it, and at its peak, there will be a thousand a day first-time decisions. It will spread from Brisbane through Sydney right around to Perth, then to New Zealand, England, and the rest of the world, and in this next generation, there will be one billion souls saved in the western world through this awakening.
This is the last great move of God spoken of by Smith Wigglesworth then he gave me 1 Cor 16:9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries. I looked up the Greek and it meant a mega door of the spirit.
I asked him how would this move of God take place because it was pretty tough in Australia, he said the spirit of true repentance would come upon the nation and the ministers and they would begin to weep uncontrollably as their hearts were melted under the compassion of God. Just like what happened in that meeting on Rosh Hashanah at All Nations Church.
He said it would not happen straight away but God would use me and many others to prepare the way. He said it would get very dark in the world at this hour, but the church would shine like never before. He told me that I had fought many enemies he surprised me by telling me that he’d only met five men in his 80 years who had fought so many devils he said it’s a wonder you still have your mind. Then he took me outside his house to pray for me. I said why are you taking me outside he replied because I am too old to fight whatever you’ve been fighting down/under. I was instantly changed when he laid hands on me my arms shot up to heaven, and my eyes were opened to a whole new level of spiritual insight I could see enemies coming my way ahead of time.
Since then we have done a forerunner spiritual tour of Australia and with that saw that people were very responsive and encouraged by this word that was given. Many have sowed sacred seeds into this new move of God as a first fruit offering and we believe their prayers and giving have gone up as a monument to God from the Great South Land of The Holy Spirit.
I knew when it spoke of open doors and the revival “going to the fields” and the reference to Woodstock” that I was hearing God.
My husband and I drove to Woodford on a Sunday morning with google as our guide to find the property which is privately owned, not knowing whether we could access the land. However, google led us to “the gates” of the property.
The Gates at the entry to the property that has been hosting the Woodford Folk festival
I prophesied a new day, claiming back this land for the purposes of The Kingdom of The Lord Jesus Christ, called for the “new song of The Lord” to arise and resound from the earth that even the trees would clap their hands, that all creation would vibrate to the Song of The Lord. My husband and I sang Morning Has broken and sang Isaiah 55 “You shall go out with joy and be led forth in peace. Even the mountains and the hills will burst into song before you and all the trees of the field will clap their hands; We called for the sound of the Lord to arise in this place. We asked that the Lord brood over this place as he did when He brooded over the chaos before the creation of the world as we know it today. I also felt to sing an old “boney M” song….unusual because I don’t usually sing songs from pop charts, but as I sang it I realized that we as the people of God in a sense have been struggling to “sing the song of the Lord in Babylon” That Babylon requires us to “sing to their tune” but it goes against the spirit in us. We cannot sing the song that the world sings. I sense that everything is about to change. The church is going to hear and learn to sing heavens song and dance heavens dance and the sound of heaven is going to bring “the creation of A New Day”. God is building His church on The Rock of Revelation and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
When we were driving home after feeling that The Lord had done what He wanted I had this urgency to contact Chris Harvey to tell him that The Lord says “Get ready to run with fire” The Spirit of Elijah is on the earth to bring restoration and the due season is here, its time to run. I have been unable to find an email or contact to get this account and Word to Chris Harvey but I am hopeful that someone will be able to forward it to me.
Winds of Change 