REVIVAL IN LEICESTER (6) - THE JEAN DARNALL PROPHECY

The revival in Leicester continues.

Meetings where the presence of the Holy Spirit is so present it’s hard to stand. Laughter, people drunk in the Spirit, many on the floor as God ministers to them. Pastors and leaders visiting and taking the blessing with them. One pastor tells the story of having to stop on the way home because the Holy Spirit was still at work. As he said, better to pull over for the Holy Spirit to do His work than be pulled over for erratic driving!

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned two prophecies that are particularly relevant for our nation. One was from Smith Wigglesworth, and you can read about it here. The other is from Jean Darnall. Jean was a preacher with a healing ministry. She and her husband lived in the UK for around 25 years and had a significant influence in the early days of the Charismatic movement in the 1970s and 80s. Jean was particularly prophetic, no more so than when she received a vision from the Lord on three separate occasions in 1967. Here’s what she said (this is a precis- the whole vision is told here):

During those weeks a vision came to me. It appeared three different times, during prayer, and it was the same vision each time.

What I saw was the British Isles, as in a bird's eye view. A kind of haze was over the whole, like a green fog. And then little pinpricks of light began to appear from the top of Scotland to Land's End. Then the Lord seemed to draw me closer to these lights, and I saw that they were fires that were burning. They were multiplying from the top of Scotland to Land's End. Then I saw lightening come and strike those fires, the brightest spots particularly, and there was a kind of explosion, and rivers of fire flowed down. Some of those rivers … went right across the Channel and didn't stop there.

The Lord spoke to me, I don't mean that it was an audible voice. But it was a knowing. That strong knowing, like reading at the end of a book and knowing exactly what was going to happen. And you can't change it: it is written. And so it was written upon my heart, the meaning of this vision:

Phase One: The Glowing Fires

The Lord impressed that those fires I saw were groups of people whom He would make intensely hungry for New Testament Christianity. They would start reading their Bibles and saying, for instance, as they read the book of Acts, 'Well, where is this happy church? Where are these people so full of the power of the Holy Spirit? Where are these miracles? Where is this growth, this vitality, this courage, this boldness that these people had? Is that for today – can we have it today? Should the church be this way?'

And as these questions were being planted in their hearts, the Lord Jesus said He would make them very hungry for the Holy Spirit; He would fill them with the Holy Spirit, and out of those gifts would flow ministries that would enrich the Body of Christ. The whole concept of the Body of Christ would come alive, and barriers between denominations and different types of Christians would break down as people met each other. ….He would show them the meaning of the power of the blood of Jesus, the name of Jesus, the word of God and the power of the Holy Spirit.

Phase Two: The Coming of the Lightning

Then I asked the Lord, 'What does the lightning stand for?' And he said…the lightning represents a second part of the vision, in which I will bring a spiritual awakening to the nation that will be a witness to the unsaved, to the un-churched, to the non-Christian.

Through these believers I will bring a witness to this land. They will be an army of witnesses. …there will be apostolic signs following and accompanying their testimonies. …..Thousands and thousands of people are going to come into my kingdom through this army of witnesses …. My people rising up, led by My spirit and beginning to move forward with a new faith for evangelism, a new zeal to share Jesus with others. … I will release their ministries of healing and miracles, and there will be signs and wonders accompanying their ministries. So many people will be saved, in the villages as well as in the cities, in the schools, in the government, in media, in industry. It will affect the destiny of this nation; it will determine the course of the times.