On April 12, 2004, after showing our footage against the Gay Marriage battle on DayStar TV, we held an evening prayer meeting in Dallas. The thing I noticed about the group who attended, was a common thread: they had all worked together in the Spirit during the Great Prayer Revival in Tulsa, OK in the 1980's.

    That night, after the prayer session, I laid down to a much needed sleep, but the Lord awoke me at 1 AM. I had been carried up above the planet to see a vision of the night, of the world map and happenings to come.

     Between the countries of Iraq and Iran, I saw a blanket or rug lifting betwixt the boarders and it was filled with poison gases and derth and violence and death. As it flew over those nations, the spirit behind it killed millions of people in its wake to the north and north east in the Asian lands.

    Beneath it, in Iraq, thousands of our soldiers were slain in the sands, dead or alive I could not tell.

   Then the force arising against them crossed to the west, over Israel and on towards Nova Scotia, Canada. It was hit as one would watch missle destroy something. A fire arose from that place.

    Next the same force put these cities on the east coast of America on fire; Boston, New York, Philadelphia area, Washington DC area and then it skipped again to North Carolina.

   Next it landed in the Gulf of Mexico and whipped it up like a bloodbath of tornadoes and hurricanes. This took out a pie shaped slice of the Mississippi and removed  a part of St. Louis. The last action of this destructive force that had attacked us from Iran/Iraq, went shooting up to Detroit Michigan and exploded in a pink cloud!


   I came flying up off the bed and cried out, 'Lord! What have you showed me?"

   He answered, "What your President has just proclaimed over Iraq is not true. (Around 150 souls lost, the boys coming home by Memorial Day, with a small peace keeping force remaining). Instead the death toll will rise into the thousands.

   I asked, "Can we stop it? Is that why you woke me up?"

   I was shocked by His answer, "No. Whereas in times past, men in all their asundry entertainments could turn away from other men's famine and wars of destruction, now what is coming has been prophesied for thousands of years and it shall be in every man's face and no man shall have anywhere to turn but unto the face of their creator."

   "Well, if we can not stop it, then why did you show me?"

   "You can change the battle score and the death toll."

   I answered, bewildered, 'Then why are you showing me? We are maxed out already in our Prayer Summits and have no staff or funding much to speak of beyond that humble effort. What more am I to do than I am already doing for you?"

   He said, "The prayer -shield, which was once over this nation, is fallen down from what it once was. In order to thwart what is coming, you must raise it up again, not only to its former state, but stouter and beyond."

   "How? I can't even believe that it has fallen down." (I'd been so busy doing prayer summits that I hadn't noticed what others were not doing at all. I'd just assumed all the great prayer meetings of the midwest were still going strong. They weren't.)

    He explained, "Those who once held the strong watch positions are gone to the other side, moved to heaven. And many of those that learned at their knee have become too encumbered with the affairs of life, and are some stricken with elder age, taking care of ailing parents or spouses, and their families were targeted by the evil one, and are now split and fractured. They have their hands full taking care of the many displaced grandchildren and great grand children that their children have failed to raise."

     Then he pointed to Canada. "The Toronto Blessing was an awakening." Then he pointed to Florida, "Brownsville was a refreshing." Then he pointed to the mid west and I saw him touch Kansas. He walked from Charles Parham's Bible School down to Tulsa, from the early 1900's to the 1940's and He stopped at Raymond T. Richi's tent near Peoria St. Then he walked to Utica St and stopped at an old blue building that reminds me of an upside down swimming pool.

     It was the place that T.L. Osborn sold to Buddy Harrison, who founded Harrison House, the publisher of the great Word of Faith movement's books. It was the place where Grace Roose, Kenneth Hagin, Rachel Teafitiller, Billye Brim, Kenneth Hagin and many others began great sessions of prayer and bible study that birthed a thirty year prayer movement that seemed to peak in 1988.

     What did Jesus want in that place?

     He bent over what appeared to be a burned over ash heap and scooped up some embers. In his palm he turned them for me to see that each bore image of a face.

     "These are those that prayed alongside of those who knew the secrets of they journey of prayer, who have now gone to the other side, moved to heaven. Go stir them up. Tell their stories and I will be there. The younger ones who have never heard them will learn and go beyond. But some will say that they don't know what you are talking about. Others will say that it has been too long to remember. "

     He continued, "Don't go back to that city and reteach the principles of faith. It has already been saturated with more than it knows what to do with or will ever fully use. But it is the journey of prayer that has been lost. Faith without prayer is nothing but personal witchcraft."

     EM Bounds said, "When Faith ceases to pray. Faith ceases to live."

     The Bible says, "Faith without works is dead."  Prayer is a labor. And Faith demands action.

    Now about three years hence, we see a war brewing with Iran and its presdient boldly declares his hopes for millions of his people to die in the end time wars so that the fabled grand mufti can return at the end of the world. There is an American army death toll of thousands instead of 150 in the sands of Iraq. The gulf coast of America has been altered by Katrina though the pie shape slice is still there and not missing yet. And our east coast cities are still okay.

     But if we are going to "Thwart" the threats of terrorism aimed at America, we must raise up the prayer shield again and we have just barely begun.

     Why didn't the Lord look for the resurrection of a prayer shield in Toronto or Brownsville or newer revival centers of our continent? Though spectacular with many souls saved, those movements lack the depth of a thirty year prayer movement that birthed a prayer revival which didn't peak until 1988. It is like a deep basement, a storage of skill and relationship to the Holy Spirit and his ways. That is the kind of prayer that is needed to "Thwart" something evil that would attack our nation. The depth of prayer in those revivals was sufficient to "birth" something, souls into the kingdom. "Birthing" and "thwarting" are not the same in depth or skill. A woman can birth if she knows how, rather easily compared to raising an army needing strategy and endurance to "thwart an emeny." Jesus brought us Toront Blessing and Brownsville Revival, but he is returning us to the Tulsa Prayer Shield to preserve us and 'thwart' the evil aimed at us in this hour.