Prophetic Word 2000
Pacific Northwest by Vivian
K.Hamilton
In March, 1997, on day 29 of a Lord-directed Daniel fast with the purpose of praying for revival in our area, I was praying Daniel 9. I felt drawn to my window that looks out to the east toward Mt. Hood. It was dawn and what I saw in the sky took my breath away. It was a huge cloud slightly to the south of Mt. Hood, that was shaped like an angel flying north with its robes trailing behind and its hands lifted in prayer. It was pointing in the direction of the Columbia River Gorge/ or Washington. I grabbed my camera and tried to take a picture and it wouldn't shoot which had never happened before. I finally asked the Lord what He was trying to say to me. I felt like He said that prayer is a major key for revival in our area, and to take seriously His calls to me to fast and pray.
At times I questioned if I was strange to accept the Lord speaking to me that way. Then the Lord gave me Psalm 19:1, "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands." I told the Lord that I was thankful that He knows I'm a visual learner and that He speaks to me in such personally custom designed ways.
In May, 1999, on the way to a conference in Eastern Washington, I had a vision. As I was looking at the highway going through young wheatfields, the highway became a stream bed with a stream running along it. The water increased until it was a roiling flood flowing along the highway that formed the bed of the river. Then the most amazing thing happened, the water became kernels of wheat. It was like the largest grain elevator in the world had burst and the wheat was rushing along the highway bed. The Lord spoke to me that this represented the harvest to come in this area. The wheat was also the Bread of Life.
On our way back home from the conference, we were travelling west along the Columbia River on the Oregon shore. I looked in the sky and saw an enormous angel. He was stretched out overhead with his feet over Washington, his body stretched across the Columbia River, and his arms extended over Oregon. In his right hand was a large sword which I felt like the Lord was saying to me represented the Word of God that needed to be applied over Oregon. All weekend I had been praying, "Lord bring heaven down now", as I was dancing with banners as intercession instruments. I felt like the Lord confirmed to me that He was definitely calling me to battle in the Spirit in this way, and the banners were like a sword in my hand tearing holes in the shroud over this area that has kept the glory of the Lord from being fully manifest.