"From Visitation to City Transformation" --How One Encounter with God Can Change the Course of History

May 1, 2005

Greetings History Shakers!

With my own recent move to California, this teaching has weighed heavy on my heart. May it bless and encourage you to press in for visitations that radically change your cities and nations!

So many Christians in America . . . yet so few cities that have been truly transformed for Jesus Christ. Why does this paradox pervade our society? We passionately cry out for nations to be saved in a day, yet our local spheres of influence remain largely unchanged year after year.

How can we press in to see our cities transformed? To become a history shaker, each of us personally needs a radical visitation with the King of Glory. He will ruin you and awaken your birthright. The Bible essentially is an anthology of a covenantal, loving God continually pursuing His Bride. These life-changing and powerful testimonies reveal how one person's visitation with God can change the course of human history.


Revival Starts with You

Beloved, close your eyes and imagine what your God is capable of doing. Envision the God of the universe creating cities. Can't He transform them as well?

To shake the nations for God, you must first let God shake you. If we simply study the Scriptures and treat the Bible as the Word of God, there is a common thread woven throughout all the history-makers of the Bible: Visitations precede city transformation.

When we hear about radical visitations, we may think, "That's awesome for Moses, the Apostle Paul, or Benny Hinn, but that would never happen to little old me." But, Beloved, perhaps the reverse is true! What if it was their personal visitations that caused these heroes of faith to walk out their incredible destinies?

Maybe you have never dared to believe that God wants to meet with you. Throughout history, God uses weak, broken vessels whose very fragility is the perfect conduit for His glory and power. God does not wait until we have "arrived" in our destiny to encounter us -- visitations are a key part of commissioning.


The Bible: Guidebook or History Book?

Seventy percent of the Bible consists of radical visitations, trances, dreams, visions, signs and wonders, angelic encounters, and other supernatural accounts! We need to go back to the Bible. If God is not a respecter of persons, could it be that God might want to radically meet with you?

In order to build your faith for your own personal visitation, we will first expose many modern day myths and then visit many of our forefathers' encounters. This will lay a biblical foundation for you to press in and contend for your own visitation.


Unbelief of the Western Mind set

The Western Church is barren because of logic and intellectualism. We know the Word of God but lack the experience of the Holy Spirit.

Therefore, church is little more than a routine social club without mass salvations, deliverances, and suffering humanity being touched by God. We claim to believe that the Word of God is true, yet somehow we ignore the fact that God has commissioned us to walk in greater works than He did. Miracles are not an option, but rather a trademark of basic Christianity 101. But why is there such a resistance and fear of the supernatural?


Fear of Deception

Satan is unable to create anything new, so he simply counterfeits the authentic. His first line of defense is to make us afraid of the supernatural. When we believe this, he has won! One of the lies he feeds us is that if you move in the supernatural realm, you will slip into deception. However, what this is really implying is that God isn't able to protect us through the Holy Spirit. We are more afraid of satan deceiving us than we are desperate to experience God!

If God was able to keep us before we even knew Him, how much more is your Father in Heaven able to lead you into all truth with His Word as the glorious boundary line?


Two Governments Chasing After the Souls of Men

Unfortunately, because the church has not fulfilled its basic job assignment for God's kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven, the world looks for the supernatural in other places. Like starving souls in the desert, people are so thirsty for the supernatural that they will hunt for it wherever they can. When they cannot find it in the church, they will find it in the world. Instead of finding the refreshing living waters of the supernatural, they have had to settle on merely drinking the sand of the New Age ideas.

(For your reading enjoyment, pick up my series Master Potter and Master Potter and The Mountain of Fire below from The Elijah List, which provides a refreshing dose of the true supernatural things of God in a literary allegory.)


Unbelief Breeds Fear . . . Fear Robs Faith

The best means to discern the counterfeit is to study and memorize the real thing. The Holy Spirit brings government, which utterly destroys the enemy's work. We need to have a fresh Pentecost in our lives to be empowered by the Holy Spirit like Acts 2. Then, we will be able to move in genuine apostolic authority with a breaker anointing, rather than wondering if we'll be deceived by the New Age.

Let's look at some biblical examples of revolutionists who did great exploits for God and their supernatural visitations.

1) The Father of our Faith: Abraham

God first appeared to Abram while he was worshipping pagan gods. This divine call was based on God's grace, not Abram's faithfulness. Visitations are not dependent on our track records. The sovereignty of God suddenly interrupted Abram's life as the Lord promised that He would make him a mighty nation.

2) Jacob

Let's look at Abraham's grandson, Jacob the deceiver, as he fled for his life. We assume that one as manipulative as Jacob would not deserve a visitation. Again, our righteousness is not what qualifies us for visitations -- it is our hunger that God cannot resist.

In Genesis 28:12, Jacob suddenly sees a ladder with angels ascending and descending. The Lord reestablishes the Abrahamic Covenant, promising Jacob that his descendants would be as numerous as the dust of the earth. Beloved, you cannot let your past disqualify you from pressing in for an encounter. Encounters produce faith; faith is then what propels us to fulfill the impossible tasks that God is asking of us.

3) Isaiah: Commissioned by Fiery Coals

Would you like to have seraphim fire brand you with a coal to be commissioned as a prophet to the nations? Isaiah experienced this! Why not you? Visitations are more than radical joyrides in the Spirit; encounters will alter your DNA, download you with fresh blueprint plans, and ruin you for anything less.

A modern day Isaiah 6 happened to a pastor I know who had a radical visitation. She saw an altar with a Man standing behind it with a knife in His hand. He told her to get on the altar.

She started screaming, "No! No! No!" Finally, when she said "yes" and willingly climbed on the altar, wings closed around her, and a hot coal of fire was put on her mouth. Suddenly, she was traveling in the Spirit, flying to the nations where the Lord revealed cities and individuals she would meet in the future.

He said, "I have called you to be a prophetess, an oracle and a voice!" This visitation was an ordination of the prophetic for her, as the Lord did a divine download. (For more examples of visitations, listen to the Visitations Volume I CD Set -- see below.)


Visitations: More Than Our Inheritance . . . It's Our Prophetic Destiny!

I have been a cheerleader of the Manifest Presence of the Holy Spirit for decades. In 1987, I had a 21-day visitation where I met with the Lord from 3 in the afternoon until 7 in the morning. Through intense times of intercession and hearing His heart for nations, God met with me throughout each night.

During these open heaven experiences, He taught me many mysteries of how to move with the Holy Spirit, the different kinds of fires and anointings, and how to open up the heavens. These visitations transformed my ministry from just praying for individuals to a corporate anointing where pools of glory and radical encounters with Jesus pervade my meetings. What you touch in heaven, you can bring down to earth.


The Challenge: Contending for Your Own Visitation

How do we attract the presence of God? Holiness, humility, and hunger are proven unmistaken, prime attractors of the Holy Spirit. When the 3 H's are present in you, we become irresistible to Him.

We have to be desperate for God to the point of devastation to have more of Him. What lengths do we go to have more of God? Why not contend for your own personal visitation? Here is the key: As much as you want to meet with God, He passionately desires to encounter you. Why not you? Wherever your feet hit the ground, God wants you to invade your sphere of influence. From schools to the grocery store to your neighborhoods, God wants to ruin your cities -- one life at a time.

Press in!

Jill Austin
Master Potter Ministries
www.masterpotter.com
info@masterpotter.com

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Jill Austin's Upcoming Itinerary :

Here's the schedule for the summer. Please pray for us over the next month as we take our trip to the nations!

May 16-18, 2005
The United Christian Spiritual Movement of Korea
Seoul, Korea

May 26-June 4, 2005
Ministering with Heidi Baker, Iris Ministries
Pemba, Mozambique

June 15-20, 2005
Holy Fire 2005 - Living in the Anointing
Bakersfield, CA

June 23-25, 2005
Facedown in the Glory
Portland, OR
With Timothy and Glenda Sherman

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