*Whenever we receive a prophetic vision or insight we should spend time in prayer for clear revelation AND for instruction on how to pray and what we should do with this revelation.
I was recently driving from North Carolina to Maryland on a business trip. As I was passing through DC and going into Maryland I started praying about our nation. It was more of a prayer of inquiry than a prayer of petition.
"God tell me what you see when you see America... God what do you feel, God let me feel what you feel when you have your eye on America." This was my simple prayer to our Lord. I prayed and then I simply turned off the radio and waited upon the Lord.
Pain and discomfort.
When you wait upon the Lord with expectation and faith, be prepared to fully experience what you have prayed about. As I was driving I felt a number of emotions going through my mind and body.
First, I felt actual physical discomfort, a mild pain with a deep heaviness in my left arm and throughout my chest. It started rather mildly yet continued to grow in discomfort as I prayed and waited upon the Lord.
I was feeling both heartache and heaviness. I knew this was just a small fraction of what God was feeling and I was sure that my mere mortal flesh could not stand to experience the full emotions of God.
I soaked in this feeling for a few moments feeling numerous thoughts and feelings flow through me. After a few minutes I reached for the radio to turn on some music. "No. Listen.", said the Holy Spirit. I sat back in my seat still feeling my left arm and chest in a mild pain and continued to drive.
I was actually waiting for more feelings of emotion or pain. I was waiting to feel more of what God had for me, when I actually began to see in the spirit. I was not expecting or looking for a vision, merely for more emotions or a still small voice. What I saw was breathtaking and deeply stirred the emotions even higher.
I saw on both sides of my vehicle images of war. I saw images of the civil war surround me and it was so clear that I could not only see the soldiers, it was as if I could feel their emotions and thoughts. This lasted for only a moment, possibly 1-2 minutes and then the images were gone.
What was that God? Then the Holy spirit spoke these words, "America is my child."
America? I questioned God - how could America be your child? I was looking out my eyes of the flesh and pondering on abortion, mass murders, and the selfish nature of our country. But God was seeing his child.
"America is my child. The war you are seeing is the internal conflicts of a child. The nation is fighting with itself to find out who it is, what is their identity? The conflicts that tear the people apart from one another are the people learning who they are and who they are not."
"America is still trying to learn who they are. America will go through more conflict within itself yet they are learning who they are."
I felt America learning who they were and I felt better for a moment. Then however the next image God showed me was a young man who seemed to me to be about 18 years old. I felt rebellion in my spirit, dark and desolate rebellion.
"America will rebel against itself, against me, and against all that is good."
This season I felt was very dark and very harmful. THIS NEEDS PRAYER NOW BEFORE WE ARRIVE! The image quickly changed however from the young man to a man in his mid to late 20's. "Then America will become mature..."
This picture of the image brought a new emotion with it as well, an emotion of peace and the pain in my arm and chest subsided.
Trying to write out an experience like this is nearly impossible! The emotions and feelings, the images and small voices flowed through me so quickly. God loves the United States - I could sense his love, his sorrow, and his pain. At the same time I could also sense that he is pouring out great rivers of mercy and grace as we grow.
A child will act childish, yet we need to pray for maturity. We need to pray for God to lead our steps and reveal to us Kingdom revelations of understanding. Peace and Love is what we should desire, and remember to thank our Heavenly father for his mercy which he chooses to give us, remember it is not required of him.
- Pastor Wayne
