I was awakened yesterday morning with a feeling of excitement for the biblical prophetic times we’re living in. Immediately after I opened my eyes, I thought, “These are exciting days!” Then the lyrics to a song flooded into my heart. “These are the days of Elijah, declaring the word of the Lord. And these are the days of Your servant Moses, righteousness being restored.” Before my feet were on the floor, I sensed the Lord nudging me to share a prophetic dream I had in 2011.
In July of 2011, I had a dream while sleeping and I knew it was pertinent for the Church of Jesus Christ. Shortly after that, I wrote the details of the dream and recorded the words the Lord was saying about the dream.
In the beginning of my dream, I was sitting next to my husband in a church service. We were away from our hometown and visiting a church. The preacher was a prominent man of God and he began singing a beautiful song by Nat King Cole. He was singing the words, “That’s why it’s incredible that someone so unforgettable thinks that I am unforgettable, too.” My husband began weeping while the preacher was singing these words. I glanced at him and noticed that a young man in his early twenties to his left was beginning to weep. Then almost simultaneously, an older gentleman to the left of the young man was weeping, too. It was obvious to me that the older man was the father of the younger man. I had never seen anything like this in church before. My husband and the father and son were all three leaning on each other, weeping tears, and very overcome by the Spirit. I lifted my hands toward HEAVEN and began to worship the Lord. I felt the anointing power of God like I had never experienced before. I heard clearly in my spirit these words from God: “I am pouring out a father anointing.” As I stood there in awe, the words from Malachi 4:6 dropped into my spirit: “He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers…” The dream ended abruptly after I heard those words from the book of Malachi.
Immediately, I was awakened from my sleep and I was compelled to share the dream with my husband, Michael. He was already awake, so I walked into the other room to find him. Tears welled up in his eyes as I shared the details of the dream. I told Michael I believed the father anointing in my dream is going to be what God uses to propel the great spiritual awakening that would ultimately lead to the greatest harvest of souls we’ve ever known in the history of the Church.
As Michael listened to my words, he had an epiphany of words to share with me. He began speaking powerfully about the need of a father anointing to be released.
On that July day nearly seven years ago, Michael said: “I believe a need for a true father will be what nudges people to turn to the Lord. Since World War II, the family has been under extreme attack—especially the men and fathers. Because of all the men that were lost, a void has been in the lives of many people. Hundreds of thousands of fathers died in the war around the world. Also, since WWII, the industrial age has taken fathers away from the family. Dads used to work on farms, close to home. Since the 1960s, the media has downgraded the role of the father. Fatherhood is what this generation lacks more than anything else. More than fifty percent of couples end up divorced, leaving many children without a father in their lives. What is this generation lacking? They are lacking the love of a father. They have a desire for a God that would be their FATHER.”
Michael’s words were eloquent and powerful. Our generation does, indeed, need the love of their HEAVENLY FATHER.
The father anointing (Elijah anointing) is the same anointing that we read about in the book of Luke. Luke shared the story of when John the Baptist was in his mother’s womb about to be born. This anointing will be what ushers in the second coming of Christ, just as Luke describes this anointing that was preparing the way of our Lord’s birth.
Luke 1:11-17 says, “Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear. But the angel said to him: ‘Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John. He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth, for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born. He will bring back many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God. And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
In my dream, I believe the prominent man of God symbolized a spiritual father who was communicating God’s unfailing love by singing the love song by Nat King Cole. When he began singing, my husband began to weep as a result of a revelation of God’s love and he was receiving a deep inner healing from a wound inflicted by his earthly father. The father and son sitting next to him began weeping because they were experiencing the release of the father anointing and as a result, healing began in their relationship.
The fact that we were away from home, visiting a church in the dream, symbolized that the Lord will pour out this anointing in unusual ways, not through the traditional ways we would normally expect.
Today, the movie “I Can Only Imagine” is being released. I believe it is being released strategically on 3/16 as a symbol of John 3:16. The entire world desperately needs to know that God so loved the world that He gave His only son so that people would not have to perish and can have everlasting life by believing in Him for salvation.
I have not seen the movie, but I watched the trailer and discovered it’s about a father and son. It’s a powerful story of forgiveness and redemption experienced through the unconditional love of Christ.
I feel in my spirit there is something very crucial about fathers and sons and daughters reconciling. I see a connection between the reconciling of father/child relationships being the catalyst for releasing great power and the Elijah (father) anointing.
Perhaps the release of this movie is a sign that God will begin turning the hearts of the children to their fathers and the hearts of the fathers to their children. The prophet, Malachi, revealed that God would send the spirit of Elijah before the Lord returns or else our land will be cursed.
“See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse.” Malachi 4:5-6
We are in a very critical season, and the CHURCH needs to pray for a father anointing to be released now. The hurting young people in our nation desperately need to be told they are loved and cherished as sons and daughters of God.
Let’s pray that millions of people will trust God and experience His fatherly love.
As we pray, I believe the spiritual awakening will begin intensifying greatly. Out of this father anointing, I believe countless spiritual fathers will rise up to minister to the younger generations. The spiritual fathers will point them to God as their HEAVENLY FATHER, and help them forgive their earthly fathers for their transgressions.
I believe with all my heart that the second coming of Christ is closer than we realize, and it’s time to begin preparing the way of the Lord.
Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank You for Your perfect love and grace that You have given us through Your son, Jesus Christ. Thank You that we are living in the most exciting time known to mankind. Please draw men and women into Your fatherly arms. Heal their hearts and souls during the coming days, months, and years. Release the father anointing and prepare the body of Christ to minister to people wherever we get the opportunity in our communities. I trust You to bring forth miracles in unfathomable ways and I stand in awe of what You are doing on the earth. Let us rise up as spiritual fathers and mothers and be used mightily to assist You in bringing countless souls into Your kingdom. Thank You, Father. I pray in Christ’s name.
