“Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets” Amos 3:7
We value prophetic words spoken over Heartlands and pray over these words that God would bring them to fulfilment.
We value prophetic words spoken over Heartlands and pray over these words that God would bring them to fulfilment.
Father, I pray Your anointing upon this church in the miraculous and in signs and wonders. As an Ephesians 4 gift invited in, I release this now into this community of believers to be more effective, more powerful, and to know the supernatural. To be more revelatory in our understanding of how You want to flow through each of us, the “no-name” brands, the nobodies that You want to bring into a higher place.
There is a trustworthy understanding and connection and there’s an understanding in this church of the supernatural. I said to Callie, “This pre-service prayer meeting has been one of the most powerful that we’ve been in for a long time”. There’s an understanding of the supernatural with the leadership, there’s an understanding of how to implement and impart and release. It’s an unusual situation to be in – no matter where you come from in this community, you carry this – I decree it over this place right now in Jesus’ Name.
Be equipped church, be equipped for these things – become living and dangerous, devil-defying, demon-hunting rottweilers, people that would change people, that would not say sorry I’ll pray for you, but will say I have compassion for you and I’ll change you by the power of God. Courage and boldness to increase. Home cells to multiply, infiltration into the city like special forces, ground forces infiltration units to be established in Jesus Name. You say I’m not qualified I don’t know what to do, God knows what to do, if you are available, He’ll do through you what He knows how.
There is a pioneering season coming upon this church, which means that suddenly you are going to find yourself breaking open into areas where previously you have prayed about it and wondered about it but haven’t been released to it. Your area of influence is growing and expanding. Be prepared to ordain new elders soon, elders that will be released into new applications. Like reptiles that grow and grow (and you can’t see the growth) but then suddenly they need to shed skin – I feel you are coming into a season where you are “shedding skin” and you will find yourself in a sudden space that’s going to be very different to where you are now.
Your fruitfulness has been under the soil, it hasn’t been visible, but you’ve been faithful in tending to the seed and watering the seed. You are coming into a season of sudden expansion and growth and fruitfulness where there has been long toiling and investment. There will also be different cultures and languages to find traction in and to pioneer in.
Heartlands you are called to be like an artesian well – the source of the water comes from great depths, from hidden places, but it bursts to the surface with great strength and power. There is a season of growth, a season of reaching out, a season of the flow of life from Heartlands into your community and God wants to use you. He’s looking for those that are available. Lauren had a picture of a person dancing with the Father – it’s so easy to get out of step, we can only stay in step if we let Him lead. As He leads, you go. If you get out of step, listen for the rhythm of His grace and love. That’s how we get back in step.
Heartlands you are not a dam, you are a river; a river goes further. I feel that there has been a time when you were happy to build here and establish here, but God wants to remind you that there is a river that goes beyond, that there will be people that will go beyond the town, beyond the country, into the furthest parts of the earth. There will be people packing bags and going out to the nations and then coming back and reporting as to what God has done. God is saying, “Don’t hold back”, “Don’t think that this is where it is at, there is more out there that He is wanting to do”. The most unusual people are going to go, not just the front row leaders. I see teams going out, going out beyond the borders.
But I also see the picture of the Heart lands – I see that there is something of land. God is saying Get Ready, I am giving you land. Don’t look with what’s in your pocket, look what’s in His pocket. Don’t think that you are too small, don’t look at the smallness of what you’ve got, look at the bigness of your God.
I see a piece of land, almost like a small holding, not so much a place in town because I see buildings on that land, buildings for different things, for housing, for teaching, for businesses. It’s not by mistake that God has called a builder to lead your church. He’s had practice!
Isaiah 61
“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted, and to proclaim that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed.
He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of the Lord’s favor has come, and with it, the day of God’s anger against their enemies.
To all who mourn in Israel, he will give a crown of beauty for ashes, a joyous blessing instead of mourning, festive praise instead of despair.
In their righteousness, they will be like great oaks that the Lord has planted for his own glory.
They will rebuild the ancient ruins, repairing cities destroyed long ago. They will revive them, though they have been deserted for many generations”.
There are many who are poor, broken hearted, bound, and captured in Harties.
God is preparing a day of vengeance against the powers and principalities but He needs a people that are prepared to step into this. He has already planted you. The principalities are bound when you step forward and proclaim good news to the poor; simply by your presence, there is vengeance against the enemy. God needs an amen from you.
There’s a shaking coming to Heartlands that is not to separate but to diversify. Certain giftings will come through certain individuals in a stronger and more formidable way, but there will be a greater unity because the diversity in Christ is a thing that is going to unify you.
God is going to take some of you and send you into different contexts and churches, not for you to leave here and go there, but God is going to give you influence there to infiltrate like spies. God is saying prepare to be a governing body for the city. God wants to establish a biblical governance for the city that will happen through a spiritual expression. This means that you will need to proclaim Isaiah 61 over different cultures, in different languages, in different contexts, and through different forms of communication. God has already started speaking to some of you about that, you just don’t know what it looks like.
God is not afraid of diversity, but He does need unity. This means that one person will do things completely differently to another but they will be unified in Christ and through this body. Don’t allow the enemy to lie and say that the body will be separated. God is calling this body to a unity but with different diversities and with different strengths.
For example, someone from this church could partner with someone from another church to bring something of a reformation or restoration to that church, and that church will in partnership start walking with you. God is going to begin merging visions, merging hearts and perhaps even merging churches. God is going to bring a unified vision and governing body over this city and God is going to do something miraculous and divine through you as a church.
God is calling you to be a spearhead that would pierce the heavenlies, and out of that place of piercing the heavenlies, God is going to rend heaven and make a manifestation on earth, where many different churches will walk together and partner together even though they might be very different in nature.
God will give you wisdom, understanding and insight on how to partner with a spirit of reconciliation, to take hands crossing boundaries of culture, denomination and styles. The thing that will open this up will be the mercy heart of God, which God has given to you – to help the poor and broken hearted. The mercy ministry of Heartlands will unlock other things. You will find others that have lost vision for certain expressions that will come to you and God will use the eldership team to restore vision there.
There might be seasons where different elders will serve in different churches but with one unified vision, heart and governance.
Do it Lord.
Numbers 13 account of the spies sent out to explore the land and to report back to the community. 10 bought back a negative report, 2 declared “Let’s go at once to take the land, we can certainly conquer it”.
Heartlands Church, you are a massive giant in this region. As you step collectively and in unity, God is giving you the promised land. As you take giant steps collectively, the land will crack, and the light will shine through the cracks. Do not be overwhelmed by the massive work, know that greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world. Collectively, take those giant leaps of faith, and see the Lord give you your promised land – it’s right there.
Intercession and Unity
1 Tim 2:1
“First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.”
It talks about ‘that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life´ I pray over you and the church for people to come around you, to pray and intercede and give thanks to God together in unity – out of that will come an environment of peace and quietness in the church where people would feel at home. There will be a fruit that comes from this. You will have people that will hold your hands up as they did with Moses. Constant prayer happening in the background supporting you and the leadership.
True religion is taking care of the orphans and the widows
James 1:27
“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world”.
I pray that God will open doors of finances, the right people who have a heart for the Kingdom. Give them words of wisdom and give them direction.
Strategies for fund raising and favour
Deuteronomy 8:1-10
“The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers.
And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.
Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. So, you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.”
I pray for strategies on how to go about raising funds. Seek God for ways on how to purchase this land. Give clear direction. If it’s for them, swing the doors wide open. Cause favour to fall upon them over this property that they would get it at a price not expected. That’s who you are! You are kind towards your children, you want the best for them. I pray that God would provide the finance. I thank you with much thanksgiving for what you are about to do.
Specific Instructions
1 Kings 17: 3 – 4
“Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
1 Kings 17: 8 – 9
“Then the word of the Lord came to him, “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.”
The Lord is going to give you specific instructions, it’s going to be a time of obedience. I see a lot of specifics. It’s going to be a time to follow his steps, know that He will give you leading as you go and do. Don’t stop following everything he brings your way and brings to your people. I feel that he is going to use people that you did not expect him to speak to.”
1 Cor 9:14
“In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.”
Is a confirmation of the above. God is saying those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel, as you go out and do what God is asking of you to do. As you take that step of faith, as you follow the instructions and heed the call, as you receive in that place of separation, as you do that from the ministry itself will come the sustenance, not just for the work but for yourselves personally. May the Lord protect the seeds of provision to come? It will come to pass at the right time. No closed hands. Only open hands to satisfy the need as the times comes if and when needed.
The need to employ people – There will be a river that will come that will be the right amount to employ someone. There is a specific thing that is quite urgent, right now, not only will the amount be right, but the person employed will be the right person. They will hold up Milan and Susie’s arms in this season. I get a sense you know who that is. I pray for confirmation, around the employment and peace as everything falls into place.
Faith not fear
Proverbs 1:7
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
Psalm 11:10
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!”
Increase faith in their lives. May Jesus be the cornerstone of their plans. Increase children, increase everything in their lives, increase faith more than ever in their hearts – from there Your name will be glorified. Deal with the spirit of fear in them. Let faith be in their hearts.
Season of harvest is here
Ecclesiastes 3
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:”
I remember the many seasons of hardship and toil. I feel God is saying while there is a time and a season for everything, a season to plant and a season to reap. I believe a season of reaping is coming, and it’s upon you and you are going to reap a reward harvest for all your times of sowing and planting, and that the harvest is going to come to pass.
Stepping Out
Matthew 14: 22 – 23
When Peter steps out onto the water, he steps out into the miraculous. Eleven other disciples stayed in the boat. Criticism is given to Peter for taking His eyes off Jesus, and yet he was the one that took the initial risk of faith. No criticism is given to the 11 that were without faith.
God is telling you to be like Peter and take that step of faith, take that risk. Keep your eyes focussed on Jesus, He is the author and the finisher of your faith, He will see you through this. You will do miracles, greater things than He did. Thank you, Father, that You’re building your church in this part of the vineyard.
A humble heart and teachable spirit
Rom 12:2
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
The appointment of the person needs to be done with a renewed mind. The person might not necessarily have the right skills, but they need to have the right heart for the future of the church. There might be more than one candidate, but God says to choose the one with the right heart, a humble heart and teachable spirit.
Set your heart on things above
Col 3:2
“Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.”
This scripture relates to the property that they are going after. On paper it won’t make sense, not so much with regard to the purchase price, but more so with what the property looks like and can offer. Put your mind on things that are above and not on the earth. There is something in the land that they are going to get, that they can’t see with the naked eye. I’m not saying they are going to strike oil however there is something in the land that God is giving them. It’s almost like they will prophetically discern what the land is being preserved by God for.
Father, we pray for a searching people, a prophetic people. You will open their spiritual insight into the location, the shape and size, the potential. Maybe a place with a borehole. Praying that God would highlight to them what there is. Set your mind on things that are above and not on things that are on earth. They shouldn’t be governed by the earthly price because the supernatural provision will come through.
What does this property mean for the future generations? What you are building now is not just for now, but for generations to come. You might not be here in the physical to see what the impact of your decision would have on future generations. I believe the decision you are making now might not make sense to you now, but it would make absolute sense for the future generations. I pray for courage and boldness for the eldership team to make the right decision for now and for the future generations.
God of all Comfort
2 Cor 1: 3 – 4
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”
This is a season that you will know and experience the comfort of God. You will get to this place where you rest in him. I sense in my heart that your work hasn’t been in vain, your labour, your past struggles. You will be going into a season where you will experience the comfort of God – take courage. For the good of others.
Favour
You have already tasted and experienced team coming alongside you with the small and big projects. I’m reminded when you are faithful with the little you will also be faithful with much. I feel in this time FAVOUR will be your SHIELD. Continue to sow with heart and compassion for people. Your boundary lines have fallen in pleasant places. You have put them in a spacious place in Hartbeespoort. We pray for favour and open doors that no man can shut. That they would find favour with people. As people move into Harties they would be drawn to Heartlands. That these people would be willing to get their hands dirty to do the task, they would be a people who have a heart for the orphan, the needy, that they will have a gift of showing mercy. I pray for a heart of compassion, renewed strength, and vision.
Miracles to follow the preaching
I felt God is not just going to send you the physically poor but also ones who are spiritually poor. Poor in emotional capacity, not seeing the purpose and plan of God for their lives. As you start to walk with them God will start to enrich their lives. I see how God is going to restore identities within your community. As they interact with the people of Heartlands Church, the heart of God would be transplanted into them. Their identity in Christ will be established in them. You will be seen as a church when people walk in, they won’t just get physical things, but they will receive the deep-seated things of God. I pray for wisdom, capacity, strategies when they deal with those people. There will be moments when you will feel overwhelmed by what you see and hear. We pray that the Holy Spirit will be tangible and help people to walk into their fullness, purpose, and destiny. I feel that the restored will become leaders, deacons, and disciples, and they will stay.
Patience and Endurance in prayer
I pray for grace and patience. Patience to sustain you in your prayers. An outflow of the miraculous will come even as you persist for one thing in prayer – keep persisting. Don’t lose heart, don’t lose hope. I pray that God will give you endurance in prayer. That you will not become disheartened even when they stumble and fall. God’s grace surrounds you, as you obey that call, as you take up the mantle, as you cry. Continue to pray.
Increase in the Spirit’s anointing to minister life
Luke 4: 18 – 19
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.”
2 Corinthians 3:17
“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
Galatians 5: 26
“If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit”.
We pray for an increase of His anointing on the body in Hartbeespoort. To minister His life to those they will meet. They will walk closer in step with the Holy Spirit. We pray for a sensitivity to His voice and discernment to know how to minister to the lives of the individuals they touch.
2 Kings 3 “The company of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us. Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to meet.”
Great and faithful leadership has led to a need and increase in dwelling place. With that a variety of other leaders and prophets have risen to take the work into their own hands and work the ground with the correct tools that have been developed throughout the years (all your efforts put into this, and the Holy Spirit cementing it).
They will be faithful in increasing the dwelling place because their hearts are pure, humble, steadfast and willing.
They are trustworthy workers, and will remain connected to the heart of Heartlands.
God will be and is in the midst of it all. God of all, will not be tied by laws of nature, He will continue to place the correct tools for work in each working hand, so that His dwelling place will increase.
I had a vision of a clearly laid out path stretching into the distance. A group of athletes filled the path and was running at a great speed. A blinding light was shining from the heavens and all runners were fixated on the light, never looking down to the ground or losing their speed.
The grouped moved in unity (Difficult to distinguish between the runners), except for 3 specific runners. The vision zoomed in onto the three runners individually and God clearly showed me the following:
The 1st runner was looking down at his shoes:
His heightened focus on himself highlighted a clear lack of Confidence/Competence. This runner was so focused on whether he had the correct gear to run with the group that he lost focus of the overarching light. He struggled to see his worthiness to run with the group and as a result broke the Unity.
The 2nd runner was dragging behind, showing signs of fatigue:
He had a lack of perseverance and commitment. Due to this, the individual was left behind by the group and the runner slowly drifted away. This clearly showed a need to stay with the overall vision of the group and that the group (church) will not wait for people dragging in their commitment. God has called us to move with perseverance and steadfastness and to achieve this, commitment and investment is required.
The 3rd runner was running on the edge of the road, looking for another path:
By continuously looking for their own way and relying on their own wisdom, they made life difficult for themselves. When the runner was looking for his own way, he lost focus of the laid-out path and kept stumbling over the bushes on the side. I was reminded to stay focused on the collective, the light & the plans that God has designed. This is not about me, my skills and finding my own way
As a church:
Season of birthing but watch for the enemy
In December 2020, I dreamt of 5 births – with each birth, there was a beautiful baby, but with each birth, there was a snake present. God is confirming that this is a season of birthing – the birthing of new ministries, new sites, BUT God’s also warning us, the birthing season is a season of vulnerability – our enemy will be present, watching, looking for an opportunity to snatch up the baby. The message is ALWAYS, be on your guard, watch out for the little foxes, be prepared for battle, put on your full armour!
The way of family and the way of the supernatural
26 January 2021: I dreamt of a large palatial house that belonged to a friend who is a traditional church leader, not spirit filled. The house was almost like a museum. I felt God saying Beware of the church that looks good, impressive, large, but it’s more of a monument to men’s good works then to the hand of God. It’s sterile and not God’s intention for church. There was another house, more homely, smaller but a family home. This is what God has intended.
I felt God saying that we have two choices for Heartlands: that we can choose the supernatural way of healing and wholeness, or the man-made way of doctors and medicine; the supernatural way of building by faith and led by His Spirit, or the man-made way of good programs and slick productions. I felt God saying choose family and choose the supernatural.
February 2021: I had one dream after the other, night after night, where God seemed to be laying one word upon the next.
The first dream was of Milan and I walking along dirt roads in the bush, which turned into canals/streams of water. Zach (represents the prophetic) was swimming ahead of me, and I was trying to keep up with him.
I felt God saying, “Keep up with me my daughter, I’m speaking, stay close, stay listening”.
I dreamt of a number of kittens all needing homes and shelter – kittens to me speak of the innocent ones, needing nurture and care – I felt God confirming that the innocent ones (children) need to be cared for and protected – there’ll be many.
I dreamt I was needing to run from one place to the other – sense of urgency. This is not the season of waiting; this is the season of doing.
Another dream was of a large house that was owned by relatives of mine that are not practicing believers (the wealth of the world?) – As I would walk from one room to another, and the house just seemed to expand and get larger. I would find another lounge, another bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, then another and another. There were many different types of people living in this house, people from different nations and ethnic groups.
I then went outside and there was a large room with access from the outside. This room had pillars and canvas sides (not walls and windows). In this room there a lot of wooden furniture – some old, some new. I remember thinking “what a treasure trove of furniture and wood”. It seemed dusty and abandoned, like it wasn’t cherished. The owner didn’t see the value.
I asked different people to give me their interpretation of the wooden room:
Lise: Wood = building, Word of God (paper), expanding Kingdom
Wood = fire = brings warmth and life to the people it touches; protection (fire keeps bad elements away e.g. Fire keeps animals away in the bush). Sees a boat (wood), protection from water, safety.
Salonette: Jesus was a carpenter. The pieces of wood / furniture are individuals in a church body / community – some are chairs, some are tables – our callings are different; we are at different places in our walk with God. Raw wood is converted into furniture pieces – young Christians becomes mature as God refines us.
Landie: Had a sense of “getting ready” – get ready to fill other places and spaces; preparation done before moving out.
4 May 2021
Another dream where Milan and myself were walking along a path in a rural / farm context – we had a plan in our hands of a road that needed to be built – I had been asked to do the planning component, and Milan had been asked to do the physical construction of it. Milly’s kids were running around us. I kept on asking, why is this road necessary? This is in such a rural context, there are other roads, why do we need this road? I was also concerned that the farmers would have to give up some of their property for the road but when we spoke to them, they were not concerned – they were happy to give up some of their land for the expropriation as the road would mean easier access to the markets, it would open their area. As we continued to walk, I saw that the road that we would build, would open another larger provincial road, and as I walked, I had peace that the road was needed.
Again, I felt God saying that the “more” is needed, more sites, more influence, a children’s home, more ministries, more leaders. The more is OK and the more is from Him. His hand of blessing is upon it.
I sense God saying, as we walk, more will be revealed.