SOUNDS OF REVIVAL IN THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

Ian Johnson ianjohn@xtra.co.nz
On 14th March we arrived in Alexandra in the Central Otago area of the South Island of New Zealand. Our first meeting was with the leaders of a small Church with a big heart. Alexandra Elim Church. Wow from the first moment we arrived the Angelic activity started. There were powerful manifestations of the Spirit as we prayed for each leader. I kept finding myself saying of Alexandra that it was a city, even though the population of the place was less than 5000. When I questioned the Lord he said look at the hills and observe. The place was totally surrounded by Angelic hosts, I began to understand that the term city referred to its Spiritual population and understood the amazing purpose that Alexandra has in the release of revival in the Southlands.

In July 2006 I had seen in the Spirit a cloud of Glory rolling out of the mountains and into Christchurch the principle city of the South Island of NZ. I now realised where this cloud was coming from. Central Otago. A place of extremes, It often records the highest summer temperatures and the lowest winter temperatures in NZ. The hills and rivers are full of Gold and the mountains stand as testimony to the greatness of God. These are the mountains that inspired the Hillsong classic "Shout to the Lord"

Over the next few days we had four very powerful meetings. I spoke mostly on mindsets that hinder revival, and also about our spiritual inheritance in Christ. People began to see in the Spirit and there was an amazing release of the Angelic. There was a Blower of the Shophar in the meeting and on the Saturday night I felt to get him to blow every time it was time to move up another level. A sense of the manifest presence of God was felt in all the meetings and a new level of expectation and faith for the supernatural was released. Every night after the meetings the sky put on an amazing display with Golden and silver cloud formations that were very unusual, people who weren't in the meetings were commenting on them in the town. We were seeing signs in the sky of a fresh move of the Holy Spirit.

A personal highlight for me was the testimony of two Israeli girls who had come into contact with a woman in the meetings. Because New Zealand is geographically as far away from Jerusalem as you can get the testimony below impacted me greatly. before you read their testimony read the following link. http://www.papelim.org.nz/page11.html

The two young Israeli woman had been given a new testament on their journey around NZ and had been reading it. In an Invercargill cafe (Invercargill is the most southern city from Jerusalem) A waiter approached them and said "greetings daughters of Israel, everything you have been reading in that little book is the truth. The one you have been reading of is your messiah. He went on to share other things and again confirmed Yeshua as the truth" then he just vanished. The young woman made a decision to follow Yeshua and next evening headed for Queenstown. they drove through Alexandra and a voice spoke to them and said you must stay in Alexandra tonight, they turned back and stayed with the woman who came to the meetings and shared their new found faith in messiah.

The significance is, The Lord spoke to me in 2004 and commissioned us to proclaim revival in the ends of the earth, that this revival would in turn trigger a revival in Israel.
The Lord used this testimony to confirm his word to us. How I have been praising the Lord for this Church in Alexandra who gave us the opportunity to proclaim revival and glory in the ends of the earth. I await reports of a continuing glory in Alexandra.

We went on to Queenstown and had a meeting with a couple who Pastor a Church in that town. We were able to encourage and pray with them it was a blessing to us to be used in this way.

We travelled on to Christchurch for meetings on the Sunday at Beulah Christian fellowship. This was a real privilege for us. This Church is Pastored by Dennis & Barbara Barton who had been my mother in laws Pastor in the late 60's. I felt so at home in this Church, and I have fallen completely in love with it and wish I was part of it. I look forward to hearing much more in the near future.

When the Barton's moved to Christchurch in 1970 they saw a major move of God. Described in the book Pentecost at the ends of the Earth as follows. "Hundreds of hippies were remarkably saved and filled with the holy spirit in this church in a very short space of time. It was the most significant visitation in NZ since the WIgglesworth meetings in Wellington in 1922" .
They are hungry again for a fresh move and the Lord moved powerfully in our meetings. Pastor Dennis said he got much more than he expected. People received visitation at a very high level, some were carried into the heavenly realm. On the Sunday night I found myself speaking prophetically. The Lord had said to me when I was carried in the Spirit over Christchurch in 2006 and shown the cloud of glory rolling in from the mountains, that the Church that invited us in to the city would be the one that would see the revival begin in Christchurch. I have waited until now for an opportunity to minister in this city. The way the invitation happened was sovereign as well. A member of our e-mail list had been asking Pastor Dennis to have us in for several months, Pastor Dennis agreed it would be a good idea and when he discovered we were in the South Island he extended a very gracious invitation for us to minister.
I am confident that this Church is about to be visited again only in a much greater measure than it was in the 70's. There was more Angelic activity in this Church than I have ever experienced. I had seen and felt literally hundreds of Angels in this place and I was very excited when a 10 year old girl came up to me after the meeting to tell me that the Lord had opened her eyes and she had also seen hundreds of Angels come into the meeting as I declared an open heaven and called Angels of revival and in they came. She also saw my ministering Angel touch people on the head as I declared revival. Another woman shared with me that she had seen Jesus on the platform the whole Sunday morning meeting. It seems Christchurch is about to be visited again.

I have come back to Auckland filled with wonder and delight at the greatness of our Lord Jesus. and see with fresh eyes revival in the ends of the Earth.

Ian Johnson
His Amazing Glory Ministries
www.papelim.org.nz