Behind Enemy Lines!
By Jill Austin
Imagine being behind the enemies lines where soldiers are constantly thinking about different ways to obliterate your own forces, demolish your weaponry and thwart any plans you may have for advancing your territory. Now consider living in that environment year after year! That is what the Christians have been doing in Utah as they live amidst the Church of the Latter Day Saints and the heavy influence of Freemasonry. These valiant warriors have been laying hold of territory in the Spirit for many years and declaring war on the powers of darkness. In mid-March, a team of 9 from Master Potter Ministries.
That is what the Christians have been doing in Utah as they live amidst the Church of the Latter Day Saints and the heavy influence of Freemasonry. These valiant warriors have been laying hold of territory in the Spirit for many years and declaring war on the powers of darkness. In mid-March, a team of 9 from Master Potter Ministries joined the fray.
Awakened First Love
From the very first minutes of the meetings, Holy Spirit moved sovereignly to transform a group of slightly hungry pew sitters into what appeared, at times, to be a chaotic crowd of fiery saints rushing to the altar for more of God by the end of the conference. The Lord spoke powerfully as Jill gave individual and corporate prophetic words to bring restoration and unity.
Fire On The Mountain – Park City, Utah
Conference Report and Photos by Jon Hamill
Jon Hamill is a full-time intercessory missionary at the International House of Prayer under Mike Bickle in Kansas City, Missouri. Jon is a professional journalist and photographer. He traveled with Jill as a part of her mentoring program with Master Potter Ministries.
“Is it Warm in Here?”
Jill Austin asked this question frequently during her recent four-day “Fire on the Mountain” Conference at the Mountain Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Park City, Utah. In the natural as well as the spiritual dimensions, the answer was invariably, “Yes.”
I’ve been around ministry circles enough to realize that almost every prophet and preacher strives to bring God’s power into their meetings. Many do. But, even as a team member, I found myself out of the proverbial comfort zone because God seemed to have gotten things backwards with Jill. In these meetings, it was many times as if the Holy Spirit were nudging Jill to simply stand up and speak so He could launch into His sovereign work.
No Safe Place in the Meeting
And the Holy Spirit knows how to warm up a room. In the first session, God’s fire hit to the extent that men and women fell to the floor with no one touching them — before Jill even had a chance to preach. As a journalist, I for one wanted to at least hear a few stories. Yet as the Spirit moved in our midst, felling entire rows and visiting others with tender joy, suddenly the room became the story.
For those who came merely to observe, there simply was no safe place. From the beginning, those in the back of the room seemed to receive as much of God’s Manifest Presence as any one at the front.
Jill calls the working of the Spirit in this manner “the glory realm”, where God sovereignly breaks in upon His people, displaying His glory and bringing many into visitations that included visions of His throne and angelic activity. God’s move often took the form of supernatural travail, without any teaching or even mentioning of this form of prayer that brings to birth God’s purposes in the earth.
Holy Visitation
One lady in the back of the room fell to the floor trembling supernaturally, crying softly, then screaming, and returning to sobbing softly. Nobody prayed for her or even touched her—except, as one area pastor described it, ‘the raw power of God’. Her experience was part of a visitation of the Lord where she saw a mighty angel released from heaven with the assignment to overthrow the demonic structure hindering revival in Utah.
Holy Spirit Challenges - Mormonism
This would seem highly unlikely, given the spiritual challenges of the area. How long have Christians suffered while partnering with Christ for a breakthrough in Utah — which never before had a sustained move of the Holy Spirit in revival? Could the defiant Moroni, the principality that is set over the entirety of Mormonism, actually be displaced and toppled by the release of God’s power simply by a conference?
The answer is — the room is warm. Here’s why this dear one’s vision is almost plausible. A team from the International House of Prayer, based in Kansas City, Missouri, and fiery intercessor Wesley Campbell from Canada, were also a part of the conference with Jill. Their major focus was teaching and training on facilitating Harp and Bowl worship as a foundation for an eventual house of prayer in the region.
Prophetic Vision
In the fall of 1999, during the first Harp & Bowl Conference, prophetic leader Chuck Pierce was listening to Mike Bickle preach on intercessory worship that will eventually fill stadiums with God’s power. All of the sudden, as Chuck recounted, God gave a vision of some of the stadiums He would visit in this manner.
The first stadium Chuck saw was in Salt Lake City — and the Lord spoke that when Harp and Bowl worship was facilitated 24 hours a day in this arena, packed with intercessory worshippers, the entire demonic structure behind Mormonism would begin to break on a global basis. During Jill’s portion of the conference, the foundation was laid for this to actually occur.
Preparing for a World Gathering
Not coincidentally, the pastors and leaders in attendance at this conference covenanted to work together to establish 24/7 worship and intercession in time for the 2002 Winter Olympics, when the nations of the world will be gathered at their doorstep.
Elijah vs. Jezebel
On the last night of the conference, they also covenanted together to work as one, and to give the Holy Spirit full reign in their congregations to be who He is, and build what He desires to build. God orchestrated this agreement among His area gatekeepers in an extraordinary way.
Jill felt led of the Lord to preach on the confrontation between Jezebel and Elijah the final night. Jezebel’s war was not just against Elijah, according to Jill, but against the move of God that Elijah was called to bring. Compromise regarding the truth and power of God might have pacified the prophets of Ba’al, but would only perpetuate the very stagnation of idolatry Elijah was sent to reverse.
Sovereign Repentance Grips Area Pastors
Several times during the message, most of the crowd rushed to the altar, crying out for God’s touch in power. Jill validated their hunger and prayed for them before asking them to be seated. The room was at a fever pitch at different times and a few moments later, without any provocation, they ran up once again. She had them be seated again in order to bring a corporate prophetic word challenging them, “Do you want the fire of the Holy Spirit in your churches?” The pastors began to repent to God, each other, and their congregations where believers had compromised the message of the Gospel. A supernatural unity was thereby forged, and a supernatural resolve imparted to see His kingdom come.
Holy Spirit, the Builder of Christ’s Church
Jill’s prophetic call on Sunday night resounded with ‘fire on the mountain.’ The body of Christ corporately, even across the nation, must break agreement with mind-sets that disallow the full expression of the Holy Spirit’s personality and power in our midst. “Many in the body see His move merely as a refreshing, as a pleasant dessert after a meal,” Jill shared. “But the Holy Spirit is more than a dessert, He’s the main course - the builder of Christ’s church in the earth.”
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