The New Hanover/Brunswick County Revival Center
The New Hanover/Brunswick County Revival Center:
Meeting Sunday mornings at 11:00 - Comfort Suites - Hwy 17 at Magnolia Greens - Leland, NC - USA
Sponsored by Lanny Swaim/Glory Ministries International
Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Habakkuk 2:2-3
Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Amos 3:7
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.
Joel 2:32
Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Hosea 6:1-2
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 3:8
We are now entering into the third day since Jesus finished his work on earth and sat down at the right hand of the Father. Historically and prophetically the church has experienced two of the three feasts that Israel kept every year under the Old Covenant. These feasts were types and shadows of the New Covenant church. We have experienced Passover (salvation), Pentecost (the baptism with the Holy Spirit) and are now about to enter Tabernacles (God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwelling in his people in fullness, bringing the apostolic church birthed on the Day of Pentecost to completion).
Today God is calling out and raising up a remnant to be the firstfruits of this third day church, reviving us to spearhead the greatest move of God ever experienced on planet earth. We have been severely tested and tried but he is healing us and binding us up, building his character in us and equipping us for the days ahead.
Surely we were born for such a time as this. Glory to God!
In the spring of 2000 I met Miguel Escobar. Miguel is a revivalist that has ministered in over sixty nations. Since 2001 Miguel and I have ministered together numerous times and have become good friends. Some time ago I met Miguel and some other ministers in Christiansburg, VA to spend some time in prayer at a Christian retreat center that was closed down for the winter. Miguel shared with me an idea he had for revival centers all over the United States. From Christiansburg we traveled together to minister in Newnan, GA. We stayed together in the home of Preston Haag. One morning at 4:00 I was awakened and the Lord began speaking to me about Miguel's idea. He told me it would come to pass and that I would be a part of it. I then saw myself ministering in Germany and Miguel ministering in Switzerland. We both boarded private jets and flew to the same location in the US to minister the next night at one of these revival centers.
The next morning I told Miguel and Preston what the Lord had said and about my vision. A few weeks later Preston started The Harvest Center in Newnan as a start to the fulfillment of this vision for revival centers. He and some others that joined him were given the use of a store space on the main street in downtown Newnan. They had their first meeting on a Friday night and over 80 people showed up with only word of mouth advertising. Some couldn't get in and stood on the sidewalk outside with the door open so they could hear. God showed up with signs, wonders and miracles and this continued for many weeks thereafter. I have ministered there several times. The meetings have gone on until 3:00am. I have seen people born again, baptized with the Holy Spirit, delivered of demons and healed. I've seen much gold dust there, oil running out of people's hands and I've sweated oil our of my forehead as I was leading worship. Numerous times I've smelled a sweet smell come into the room and I've heard angels singing.
I believe these revival/training/worship centers will be much more than we have seen in Newnan. I believe the Harvest Center in Newnan will continue and grow into the completed vision that God has for it. I see these centers becoming apostolic umbrellas with ministries and cell churches being raised up under them and many sent around the world proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom.
In 2004 the Lord told me to start monthly meetings in various cities that would be another step toward fulfilling Miguel's vision of revival centers. During the last half of 2005 I had three meetings in operation. These three were Brunswick County, Wilmington and Jacksonville, all in eastern North Carolina. The Jacksonville meeting was not growing very much and I considered shutting it down but the Lord spoke to me and said that I had to continue going to Jacksonville. Robert and Ann Meadows had been coming to that meeting since the very first night. They had started a church in their home in Maysville, NC (between Jacksonville and New Bern) and then moved to a modular building across the road from their house. Robert and I were both aware of a prophecy that Derek Prince had given in Jacksonville a number of years before.
PROPHECY DELIVERED BY DEREK PRINCE
SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1975
DELIVERANCE EVANGELISTIC TEMPLE
JACKSONVILLE, NC
“I have found favor with you here in eastern North Carolina. I will personally visit you. There will be a revival greater than that of the great Wales Revival at the turn of the century (20th Century). There will be kings and leaders who will come from north and south and east and west to study the eastern North Carolina phenomenon.”
Many people in eastern North Carolina are aware of this prophecy. Some have a “wait and see” attitude about it. Others believe that God is calling out and raising up believers that will be instrumental in bringing this prophecy to pass.
Robert and I met one Monday morning at his house to talk and pray about this prophecy and about the Jacksonville meeting. The Lord instructed us to move the Jacksonville meeting to the church Robert and Ann had started in Maysville (Jacob's Well Christian Fellowship Church).
Robert had shared a vision with me that he had seen as he was driving home one day. In a field across the road from Jacob's Well Church he had seen a large building with acres of parking lot. (He actually saw this with his physical eyes.) The Lord told him that this was a revival center where people would come for a period of time and then go out all over the world. Another man saw this same vision and Robert's daughter dreamed it. All three saw it independently of each other and then shared it with each other.
As Robert and I were praying together in his living room that Monday morning I told him that every time I thought of this vision the Lord had shown him, I heard the Lord say 16,000 people. Robert laughed and said the Lord told him the main auditorium in the building would seat 15,000 people.
As I was driving back toward Wilmington on Highway 17 that afternoon I asked the Lord, "Why did you tell me 16,000 and you told Robert 15,000. The Lord quickly spoke to me and said there would be a 1,000 seat overflow room where smaller meetings could be held as well.
A little farther down Highway 17 the Lord spoke to me again. He said, "The revival that Derek Prince prophesied will issue out of the three places you have started meetings in eastern North Carolina. In Prince's prophecy he said that kings and leaders would come from north and south and east and west to study the eastern North Carolina phenomenon.
I asked the Lord, “What is the phenomenon?” I thought phenomenon was a strange word for the Spirit to use in a prophetic word. Immediately he said to me, “The phenomenon is my glorious church, built according to my blueprint and functioning according to my plan.
Several years ago my wife and I were attending a local church that met on Sunday mornings and had cell groups that met in various homes during the week. I had hoped the cell group meetings would be times when we could practice and learn to flow in the gifts of the Spirit, ministering to one another as we were led by the Spirit to do so. However, the cell groups were very controlled by the leadership of the church. At best they were Bible studies and social get-togethers. Bible studies and social get-togethers are good but I had hoped for more.
One night I had a night vision. I was asleep but it was too real to have been a dream. I saw Jesus sitting on his throne. I couldn’t see his face because his head was as bright as the sun and yet, I knew he was looking at me. He said, “The (name of the church we were attending) has it backwards. They think the church comes together on Sunday morning and breaks up into cell groups during the week but the cell groups are the church and they come together on Sunday morning.
A few months ago I had another night vision in which the Lord appeared to me in the same way he did in the first one. This time he said to me, “It is time to start that church.” I said, “But Lord, I’m not a pastor.” He said, “You are an apostle.”
I believe the revival centers that Miguel talked about will be catalysts, becoming apostolic umbrellas under which many cell churches will be connected and the five fold ministry will be in operation, equipping the saints for the work of the ministry. I believe this is a pattern or picture of what the third day church will look like structurally. This will not be another denomination, organization or even association but an organism, whose movements are orchestrated by the Holy Spirit and whose structure is built by Jesus himself.
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