Vision
16 April 2006
by Joie Pirkey
On April 16th Easter night I was lying beside my husband when a vision began. I saw the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove and He was flying out in front of me in a night sky. After asking Him about my pastor and Jeff Jansen, I asked what I should speak about on Thursday night. A pulse of energy went out of Him. He turned towards me and in an audible voice said, “JESUS IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD!” Then He said, “Jesus is the Dawn”. He had recently said those same words to me, Jesus is the Dawn.As I absorbed the impact of those words, I asked, “Can I see Him?”
I had just been reading Matthew 5 before Douglas came to bed, and stopped at, “Ask and you shall receive.” So I thought I'd asked.
Immediately the Holy Spirit was gone and I saw something move closer to me from a distance. I could feel His presence before I could see Him. Then just in front of me, covering my entire span of vision was the face of a lion. It was simply looking at me. Its eyes were blinking. I began to struggle for breath. My heart was beating quickly. He moved so close to my face that I couldn't see much of Him. “Why do you look like a Lion?” I asked. He said, “That's the only way you could take me.” I knew that He was referring to how I was struggling to calm down because I was responding physically because the emotional impact was intense.
My legs began to shake. My pinky and ring finger on my right hand also began to jump. I noticed that the two next fingers were not moving at all and I wondered why that was happening.
He moved closer. “Move back. I can't see you,” I said. He said, “I'm going to come in closer.” He slowly placed His forehead onto mine. As I began the almost excruciatingly emotional process of realizing that His actual face was on my face, I began to literally gasp for air and the shaking became what a small seizure would be like.
While I was trying to settle down He said, “Blessed are those who are pure in heart, for they shall see God”. I answered this by saying that my heart was not pure. He dismissed this and said, “I say that your heart is pure in this.” “Why are you telling me this?” I asked. His reply was because I will need to know, in the near future, that He says that my heart is pure. I understood Him to be referring to something that will happen where my motives or integrity are in question. I began weeping because of the emotional impact, the freedom, which I felt from this reassurance.
As time passed I was finding it more and more difficult to handle, physically, what was happening. My right arm began to tingle and go numb. My entire face began to vibrate and feel as if it wasn't getting enough oxygen. Everything below my stomach was practically seizuring.
“Are you able to handle this?” He was making me aware that I would need to tell Him when I couldn't handle it anymore. As if He was leaving it up to me to say when. I said, “I can take it, please don't leave.” He didn't respond.
After a moment He said “Feel this? Feel this?” He was pressing His face to my forehead, and I could feel what a horse snout feels like, on my forehead and nose. The rest of my face was tingling. He was showing me that I was feeling this physically to help me believe it after it was over.
“Why are you doing this?” I asked.
“Because you asked,” He replied.
It got to be too much then and I said that I couldn't take anymore. He moved off of me a few feet and His image faded. He told me to tell Douglas then what was happening. Doug was becoming frightened because I was being so affected physically. When I finished telling Douglas, Jesus, in the form of the face of a Lion, said, “Now you see through a glass darkly, but soon you will see me face to face.” He emphasized the word 'to', implying that the text in ! Cor. 13 actually meant that when we see Him face to face He will actually place His forehead upon ours, face TO face.
This intimate image of affection and love will be forever deeply important to me.
The Christmas Prophecies
October 2005
by Joie Pirkey
I had a dream in October of 2005 that began with the children from my church, CCV, being sick. We were all in Tim Snell's, my pastor's, house. I was the only adult there. The babies began throwing up and falling down on the carpet, one after the other. As I got the situation under control the older kids began. They were in a different room in the back of the house. I was glad for some reason that it was me who was dealing with this mess because I knew that it was 'icky' and that I could do it without a problem.
Kristine Kundee and Mindy Snell came home. They were both dressed up. I was wondering why I wasn't at the meeting that they were at. I knew that they had been at some kind of church service I was also wondering how Dan Kundee, Kristine's husband, could be a pastor at CCV. She and Mindy came in as pastors' wives.
Kristine turned around to face me and with great enthusiasm said, “Wait until you here the Christmas prophesies!” I was wondering if she gave the prophesies or if she had heard them. I was wondering why I wasn't at the meeting. I realized that I was in a dream from the Lord and asked if I was still in time-out (a euphemism for the extended period of time that I was asked to step down from all positions of ministry at CCV while the Elders discerned the CTR prophesies). I asked if I would still be in the time-out at Christmas, and the Lord answered that I would be out before Christmas.
This dream was short. I came out of it with three clear things to watch for. 1. Dan Kundee would be a pastor at CCV. 2. I would be out of the time-out before Christmas. 3. The Christmas prophesies would come before June. (June was the time of year that the first wave of the flood seemed to be coming, by what I had seen in previous dreams and visions. We're just not sure what year.) When this past Christmas came and went with no “Christmas prophesies,” we were afraid that we would have to wait another year. We knew the dream was from the Lord because Dan Kundee did become a pastor at CCV and I was released from my 'timeout' in the first week of December.
The Christmas Prophecies Continued
April 2006
by Joie Pirkey
At the Azusa Street 100 year celebration conference this past April, I spoke about Jesus being the dawn, as I was instructed to do in a vision I had on Easter evening. The supporting text was Isaiah 9:1-6. I also spoke on Micah 2. (This message can be heard on the web cite.) One of the salient features in the message was that the Body needs to be ready to use their gifts and to begin to stand up and share the things the Lord is asking us to do. I gave an example of this process, which included Mindy Snell and Michael Vandree. They, along with others, had been hearing things from the Lord regarding the birthing process beginning at conception and ending with delivery of a movement that will encompass the outpouring of the Spirit here in the Fox Valley, as was promised in many prophesies. I was also told to play the song Breath of Heaven by Amy Grant. When reading the text from Isaiah and playing the song, I highlighted the fact that both of these were popular at Christmas time, but that for some unknown reason God wanted me to use them now.
As our book tour for Coincidence or Godincidence began, Pastor Steve Dreissen and I spoke about the 100 years conference. I was not able to attend the last service that Pastor Steve spoke at. He proceeded to share with me the text that he used, Isaiah 9:6. When he mentioned that he knew that it was a popular Christmas text, he got my attention. “What text?” I asked. “Isaiah 9:6, for unto us a child is born…” “I used the same text!” This freaked me out because it is not a typical text for revival type preaching, or any time other than Christmas, for that matter. He showed me Micah 2 then and informed me that that was his second text. After we absorbed the “Coincidence” of using both of the same texts, I began to discern in the Sprit that there was more to come regarding these two messages. I told Pastor Steve and he too felt that the Lord was trying to get our attention. As soon as I directed my intent toward the Spirit I yelled, “The Christmas Prophesies!!”
Pastor Steve didn't know anything about the Christmas Prophesies dream. I had been keeping it between my pastor, his wife, and me because of the information regarding Dan Kundee becoming a pastor. I phoned Mindy immediately to ask her what she remembered about the dream.
Pastor Steve and I, along with very interested fellow travelers, discussed the messages at length, trying to discern what the Christmas prophesies actually were. We both spoke on the prophesies about the outpouring of the Holy Spirit coming to the Fox Valley and referencing them as a birth of a new work of Christ here in the Valley. It was amazing to think about the timing: two months before June, At the conference I asked Michael Vandree to share what the Lord had told him about the songbirds singing two hours before the dawn. He said that we were the songbirds singing in hope and expectancy of the dawn of Christ here in the Valley. Two hours, two months.
Near the end of the tour, Steve Rose, the author of Coincidence or Godincidence, asked Pastor Steve to explain to one of the passengers what cessationism is. When he completed his discourse, I chimed in and explained how my church went through a similar process of going from cessationism to being charismatic. I explained how the prophesies about the Outpouring and the churches in the Valley played a roll in that process. He asked me then how many specific prophesies were in the “Fox Valley” prophesies. I was trying to recall the last time that I counted out each individual fact that was foretold in the context of the entire package. There are 96 specific facts prophesied and we are on number 94. Ninety four have already come to pass.
Just then Pastor Steve said, “How many?” “Ninety six”. “Isaiah 9:6! For unto us a child is given!” The Lord spoke to me very clearly at that exact moment and said, “Take note of where you are.” I looked out the window of the thirty four foot Limousine and we had just exited off of highway 41 onto Wisconsin Ave. After Steve said Isaiah 9:6, everyone in the limo began to scream in excitement and freakoutment! The driver, Chuck Towns, was yelling something from the front section. We couldn't make out what he was saying until everyone settled down some.
When Jeff Jansen was here, he prophesied that something would happen at the intersection of Highway 41 and 96! We just turned onto 96!!!” (Highway 96 in town is named Wisconsin Avenue). Then Pastor Steve yelled, “96! Isaiah 9:6!
The three confirmations of 9.6 was too hard to ignore. The Lord was speaking to us regarding the significance of the conglomeration of all of the prophesies spoken over the Valley. I knew that when I shared this story, people would request the 96. This would be the catalyst for me to gather them all in one place and once again give them out. This also became significant because Pastor Steve had specifically asked me for a list of all of the Fox Valley prophesies because he was hearing now and then of those he had not yet been aware of.
God is obviously building our faith, making us ready for the enormous work that He is about to do here. He is confirming the prophesies and is desiring them to get out to the general public. He is once again giving direction and making a way. His hand is upon us and His eye is focused on the Fox Valley. I am stoked!
*June 6* Worship Rally
30 April 2006
by Joie Pirkey
I came home from the book tour Sunday evening and had Mindy Snell come over right away to tell her all about the Isaiah 9:6 stuff that God revealed to us. As we discussed the significance of the baby analogy and how God seemed to be promising us that the flood would come soon, like a baby being born, we began to question if we should be going to Rwanda this June 1st. She informed me that she and Tim were going to have to cancel the trip. I told her that it was odd that they have to postpone because every other person on the list to go had to pull out as well. Also, I felt like God wanted me to stay home and ask everyone to go to the abortion clinic to worship and pray again on June 6th, 2006. I asked her to pray about it with me.
When she got home she began praying and reading her Bible. The Lord told her to read Isaiah 66:6. She was reluctant because the number thing seemed corny. But the Lord pressed her so she turned to it. Keep in mind as you read this text that God told us that He would take down the abortion clinic with His own right arm. And that the outpouring of His Spirit that He promised through a number of prophecies was going to come like a river and turn into a flood. But before that event would occur, the two stones in the Fox Valley needed to be removed. He revealed to us that the first of these stones is the abortion clinic on Gillett Street. (See Fox Valley Prophecies -- Remove the Stones article on the web site).
Isaiah 66:6 and following:
“What is all the commotion in the city? What is that terrible noise from the Temple? It is the sound of the Lord repaying his enemies all they deserve.
Before she goes into labor, she gives birth;
Before the pains come upon her, she delivers a son.
Who has ever heard of such a thing?
Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment?
Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children.
Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?” says the Lord.
“Do I close up the womb when I bring to delivery?” says your God.
Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice greatly with her. For you will nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts;
You will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing abundance.”
For this is what the Lord says:
“I will extend peace to her like a river,and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream;
You will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees.
As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you;
And you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”
When you see this, your heart will rejoice and you will flourish like grass;
The hand of the Lord will be made known to His servants,
But his fury will be shown to his foes.
See, the Lord is coming with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind;
He will bring down his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.”
It was a clear directive to both Mindy and me to postpone this trip to Rwanda and hold another worship rally at the abortion clinic on Gillett Street in Appleton on June sixth. It has been a long time in coming, but we believe that we are at the crest of the dawn of the outpouring here in the Valley. So many things are pointing in that direction. The majority of the prophesies that we are now calling the “Christmas Prophesies” have come to pass. The list of those 96 prophesied facts will be available soon and posted on the web site. Just when and how all of this transpires I do not know, but I have watched and seen the Lord fulfill the majority of the foretold events. Being aware of these prophesies and watching them happen has increased my faith exponentially. It has geared me up for what is yet to come. It has caused worship to well up in me like never before. To understand that God is calling the worshipers in Spirit and truth makes it all come full circle. He is up to something and I am humbled and ecstatic to be a part of it all.
