A Vision of a War Machine Bryan Hupperts bryanh@igateway.net

September 24, 1998 A VISION OF A WAR MACHINE

Last Sunday during a church service the Holy Spirit gave me a very detailed vision that I will share. Then I will expound on the ramifications of its meaning.

I went forward for prayer with a hunger in my heart to become a true worshipper of God. I was asking Him to remove any pretense and ritual from me and allow me to enter a place in my walk that I might worship God is spirit and truth.

Suddenly, I was caught up in the Spirit and the Lord showed me a vision of a tank of war. It was a war machine, terrible and powerful. It had guns coming out of many places and sort of reminded me of a WWII German Panzer in its ferocity. It had a targetable cannon that would spit fire. I had the impression that if you were a prisoner of war and saw this coming, you would rejoice. If you were the enemy, you would fear. This machine was made for the smashing down of strongholds and the liberating of prisoners. To some it spoke of life, to others death.

As I watched this tank I noticed that, while it was fighting, it wasn't moving. That's when I noticed that its double fuel tanks were on E. There was no fuel to make it run.

While meditation of the picture (and still in the Spirit) I asked the Lord, "What is this war machine?" He responded, "This is your ministry." "So why is there no fuel in the tanks?" I asked. "The prayers of the saints fuel this war machine. It will run on nothing else." And it ended.

First, I saw the immediate connection between those of us who have a more front line ministry and those who are called to a ministry of intercession. The relationship is like that between frontline soldiers and supply soldiers. Some are called to do the fighting, while others are called to supply the food, trucks, fuel, and so on. Neither can successfully fulfill their part unless all obey their personal calling.

The war machine operates from the position of the victory of Christ at Calvary. It only goes forward, however, when the saints of God begin to do warfare in the heavenlies and proclaim the victory of Jesus. Someone has to be sent to proclaim freedom to the enemy's captives and someone needs to be praying that the veil over their eyes might be pierced so that they can see the glorious Gospel of Grace, and be saved.

The war machine was fighting but it needed fuel. I feel that this was

a call from God to the church to begin to pray for me personally, and for all who are called into frontline ministries. Missionaries, pastors, their families, and anyone who is actively declaring Jesus to a lost world, are special targets of assault from the enemy and need your prayers.

We need to go on the offensive if we want to fulfill the mandate of God to our generation. We cannot go forward into the deeper purposes of God, nor will fulfill His will on earth, without the militant prayers of the saints. The family of God needs to pick up their Swords and become the army of God, too.

One of my personal heroes is Smith Wigglesworth, the great healing evangelist of the last century. He once remarked, "I've never prayed more than fifteen minutes in my life; but I've never gone more than fifteen minutes without praying, either." That remark inspired me to a life of prayer.

I've written this before but it bares repeating. The Lord showed me that the coming revival shall be birthed in prayer, it shall thrive by prayer, and if it dies, it shall be for the want of prayer.

Saints of God, to the throne room of Grace! Call down the might and power of the Spirit of God that we may be His witnesses unto the ends of the earth. We must labor while it is yet day. The night is coming when no man can work.

For the lost and the Glorious Lamb,
Bryan "Tank" Hupperts
c 1998