Word for Cape Town May 16

May 16 2008 Some friends at IHOP sent me a message to say that last night Todd Bentley prophesied that a healing revival would break out in Cape Town in five different places. I could not agree more – I believe that the Lord has prepared fountains of healing revival in specific places here too (they are starting to well up and they are so beautiful). From prophetic words I have received from the Lord I know one of those places are Woodstock and the other is MUIZENBERG.

Church of the resurrection

This is so exciting – the Lord is really doing it. I have received two separate dreams from God about what he wants to do in Muizenberg over the years and recently I received a third. Please read it over and pray and receive it as what I believe is God’s holy intention (I am so excited). He has called his church in Muizenberg “the most beautiful church, the church of the resurrection”:


This is so exciting – the Lord is really doing it. I have received two separate dreams from God about what he wants to do in Muizenberg over the years and recently I received a third. Please read it over and pray and receive it as what I believe is God’s holy intention (I am so excited). He has called his church in Muizenberg “the most beautiful church, the church of the resurrection”:I dreamt I was back in Israel on a tour of the land and they brought us to a town, that I later found out was Muizenberg and there we were taken to a most beautiful church that was actually a monastery. The entrance to the monastery was shrouded in darkness. I went ahead of my tour alone into the monastery and the place was absolutely beautiful - only there was a dead tree in the middle of the courtyard which didn’t have a living thing in it.(no grass or anything - and no paving either). But for the rest it was absolutely beautiful - full of light and sunset colours. I spoke to the tour guide and I asked her what church this was because it was much more beautiful than the church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Church of the Nativity - and she said, “its the Church of the Resurrection” - and i felt a strong emphasis on the word “Resurrection”. I went back to the entry and there were people loitering around because it was dark and they didn’t believe me that this was the most beautiful church in all of Israel - because of the darkness. They were reluctant to go through and I told them - to just trust and move through the darkness which was just at the entry. the tour by the way was on a train - which is nice image of being “on track” - of guidance along a path. Amazing - the dream continued to a beautiful nature reserves on the hills outlying Muizenberg (still the holy land) - and I thought that I didn’t explore the Holy Land before but now I would - each weekend I would come here.
I believe the dream is really expressing God’s purpose to not just a pour out a revival but to build a church of resurrection power. The tree is dead –but life can still spring from it. Perhaps also it is dead because the cross (that is the tree) is empty and Christ is risen. That the church is a monastery was for me totally speaking about the fact that the bride of Christ is a dwelling place for God – a place of 24/7 communion with him. The darkness at the entrance is a warning to press in in faith – that at the outset we are required to press in faith, just as Sean was saying. We cannot see the future – but we have word and the prophetic to guide us by his promises into the church, and beyond the entrance. Only believe.
Felt the Lord say that the next few months are going to be absolutely critical – there is a window of grace – an invitation extended for the next few months to move deeper into the things of God – things that he has set aside for this time – truly beautiful gifts of the Spirit and special favour. There really is a grace for it, but we have to seize it. We have to partner with God by contending for it, so that his kingdom can come and the revival in Muizenberg can leap like fire does into Mitchell’s Plain. This is another place I feel the Lord wants to pour out in.


For the Bay Community Church

I also believe that it is time for the Bay to give away what it has received – and to do it in particular to the youth on the Cape Flats. To be a church that is a big momma to the fatherless on the flats by creating an enabling space for these youngsters to come in and be totally filled, saturated, overwhelmed and swept off their feet by the lover of their souls. Hallelujah. I saw young men from the flats totally lost in worship in what looked like one of those Heidi baker tents. Young men!! The types we expect to see in Pollsmoor, lost in worship before the King. Oh see this with me and praise God. What can be more beautiful than this?

The dream vision I am referring to all took place on New Years Eve – and we were being called to build a road between Muizenberg and Mitchell’s Plain. In the dream there was no such road and we had to bundu bash – in the dream the message was that people were locked into the Flats so that all the evils there could fester like a bog. The toll to get out (there were toll gates to get out of Mitchell’s Plain) was too expensive and nobody could afford it. Well Jesus can – and he is inviting us to partner with him by building this “road” – this way out, the way of Jesus. Its difficult because it runs along a treacherous coast with cliffs and wild winds – a lot of opposition and danger. But there are many people whose lives depend on it. People not only called to the Kingdom waiting to be born – people whom God will use to reign in life, people who will become the sent ones.

Here are the remaining words for Muizenberg that the Lord has given me over the years (they and words about a 24/7 in Muizenberg (not mine) are the reason I live here and go the Bay):
The first was a couple of years back - and in the dream i felt like the Lord say that this area is a place from which spiritual warfare into the interior of africa can be launched. that other spiritual forces - the very ones at work in africa have tried to establish themelves here - but that the Lord was going to launch a warring thrust of his kingdom into the heart of Africa that was marked by absolute humility and gentle mercy.

Then I had a three series vision/ dream. The first image was of young men lost in worship on the flats in a Heidi Baker tent, and the second I forgot. In the third, it was New Years Eve. We were a group of missionaries, and Jesus the evangelist was our tour guide. He explained that one of the design problems with Cape Town, intentionally so, was to cut communities off from one another. Had a sense this began in the 60’s – forty years ago. The Lord showed us there was no real road leading to Muizenberg. The road just ended and it became wild bush and impassable cliffs. To get out we had to pay a toll - and this toll, which we paid, was too expensive for people living there. We were beating a path to Muizenberg (we had to get out of our car and walk). I had a sense that we had to come back to build a road between the Cape Flats and Muizenberg to enable people to break out of the oppression of everything that place represents - poverty, bitter hatred and division, bloodthirstiness and murder, addiction. I had such a sense of God’s anger and offense at the complete injustice of the situation of the people in MP.

Thank and praise God for his amazing amazing purposes. He is Holy!

My personal feeling is to build a house of 24/7 prayer here. To begin somewhere with something just by praying, partnering with God and his word to see his kingdom come through prophetic intercession based on scripture, through pure devotion to Christ and a fasted lifestyle that is satisfied more by faith than food. Bay is quite a unique church in that it has a grace to push through in the things of the Spirit and the direction the Lord leads the church in. This is important - this is not a church that stands still. It has a prophetic and pioneering “mantle”. Like God’s Throne, let’s be a bride on wheels. Its so easy to get stuck, lose sight, lose faith, sing in circles…. pray arbitratrily. Let’s press in and respond to the call to deeper communion, faith and the promise of resurrection for our city.