Jon Hamill: "2007: Uncloaking God's Glory--Watch for a Year of Storms, Sudden Illumination, and a 'Gray Awakening'"

January 24, 2007

Jon Hamill: "2007: Uncloaking God's Glory--Watch for a Year of Storms, Sudden Illumination, and a 'Gray Awakening'"

"The Lord is going to light up many gray areas with His brilliance, bringing a breakthrough of clarity and revelatory understanding that will help us set our course for victory."

You can often "feel a storm" before you see it. There's a tangible tension in the atmosphere, a barely perceptible alarm even in the stillness before it comes. This inner tension is often what causes us to look out the window and see the clouds on the horizon.

The Lord alerts us to "storms in the spirit" in much the same manner. In a way unique to each individual, the Holy Spirit awakens us to an inner tension that quietly, yet incessantly compels a response. Like many of you, my wife Jolene and I have learned to heed this inner alarm to "go to the window," see what the Holy Spirit is saying, and pray accordingly.

Storm Warning: A Vision of Gray

I felt none of this during a recent early morning prayer time. Or, better said, I ignored the burden I was sensing. I wasn't really praying; more like dozing prayerfully, when the Lord gave me a vision of a dark tornado hitting the ground, which appeared to be at twilight. There were no colors in either the sky or ground, only varying shades of dark gray. The whirlwind itself seemed to blend in with the gray. Then I saw gray, translucent beings stepping out of the whirlwind. They seemed to hit the ground running, dispersing and blending into the background's various shades of gray.

Finally, seemingly at once, the Lord "uncloaked" these angels, and the areas where they were assigned began to light up with the brilliant clarity of His glory. It would be trite to say that the gray areas became black and white. More accurately, the light from these angels brought rich, brilliant color and contrast where only gray was seen before.

The image here was painted by prophetic artist Kevin Moffatt. Kevin had started the work just before I ministered, and it was amazing to see his vision come to life as I began ministering on "The Gray Awakening." To me, this image represents everything the word speaks about--most of all, the uncloaking of God's glory and wonder from the background of the grays.

A Real Tornado Strikes

Before exploring further the meaning of this vision, let me again emphasize that I missed the alarm that preceded it, and then ignored the nagging burden that accompanied it. When I briefly shared the vision with our prayer team on Tuesday, I interpreted it only according to the revelatory understanding about bringing clarity to gray areas.

What I didn't understand is that God was also trying to warn of imminent disaster elsewhere in our nation. Later on Tuesday, news outlets began to report on an outbreak of tornadoes across the south. Two days after this vision, a tornado struck in the pre-dawn hours near Wilmington, North Carolina. At least nine people died, and many more were injured. There was almost no warning.

I'm sure many other intercessors were also alerted by the Lord to pray before, during, and after the tragedy. And as we pray, He promises to "work all things together for good." (Romans 8:28)

Real-Time Prophetic: Praying Through

"We must become responsible to pray beyond the initial release of insight from the Lord...."

But for me, a question lingered, "Could this devastating twister have been stopped, or at least lessened, through more effective prayer?"

God is now giving what I like to call "real-time prophetic insight," where He is attempting to alert us of situations and events needing His intervention. He is alerting His people to "go to the window and watch" because many storms are on the horizon. More calamities are ahead. Their impact can be lessened, and ultimately good can come forth. As we watch with the Lord, He can turn darkness into light before us! (Isaiah 42:16)

Take your visions and prophetic impressions seriously. Seek Holy Spirit to better understand how they may relate to actual events as well as revelatory principles. On my part, I stopped praying when I thought I had the interpretation, even though the burden in my spirit had not yet lifted.

This was a hard lesson to learn. We must become responsible to pray beyond the initial release of insight from the Lord where our soul is satisfied, to the point of breakthrough where His burden is satisfied.

Guarding against calamity this year will also mean watching with the Lord corporately during the early morning hours. Research by Chuck Pierce has defined the Biblical morning watch as occurring from 3:00 am-6:00 am. Let's watch with our Bridegroom from region to region "until the day breaks and the shadows flee away!"

Assignment: Light the Grays

The word the Lord gave me the morning of the vision is that He is assigning His angels to the gray areas of our lives, our churches, even our nation. By this, the Lord is going to light up many gray areas with His brilliance, bringing a breakthrough of clarity and revelatory understanding that will help us set our course for victory.

Many recently have been disillusioned after crying out in prayer, only to find that all is still gray. I urge you--do not despair. Angels of the Lord have indeed been dispatched to bring breakthrough, and their initial assignment has been to blend into the background, moving in stealth. However, they are about to be uncloaked. Exposure is coming.

In Gideon's day, oppression was broken off of a nation through a midnight battle where a myriad of torches suddenly became "uncloaked" across a barren hillside (Judges 7:16-20). Many warriors, including Gideon at first, had previously assumed that the Lord had shown up a little too late to bring deliverance to a nation. History records He was right on time!

Much later in Israel's history, the nation had again plunged into oppression and darkness. For three hundred years, Israel perished under a void of the prophetic word of God. Then suddenly the spell was broken. The darkness of this night was pierced through by an angelic choir on another hillside, announcing to shepherds the birth of Messiah (Luke 2:10-14).

Stealth Birthing

"The legacy you have been laboring for is bigger than you know, and it is about to be birthed in the earth."

Look at Heaven's preparation for this moment. Most of the Lord's work was done in stealth. For almost ten months, the King of Glory had been hidden away, growing as a human embryo in Mary's womb. Then when the time of travail finally came, Mary gave birth to Jesus in a stable--most likely a cave!

For more than 50 years before Christ's birth, the prophetess Anna had been secluded in the Temple, travailing for the Child through fasting and prayer. Maybe at first she was like you and I thinking that this quickening to pray for revival and visitation would be met with breakthrough within the hour. But by the time Jesus Christ was born, this "mother of Israel" had truly become a "gray angel!"

Prophetically, I hear the Lord encouraging many "gray angels" in this period of history, "Don't stop praying now!" The legacy you have been laboring for is bigger than you know, and it is about to be birthed in the earth.

And when you experience His suddenlies this year, know that they have been in preparation for a long time. The brilliance of His Spirit will shine on many gray areas, bringing them to full color and full clarity. Please note, though, that as these areas become exposed, we are responsible to steward the revelation He gives us.

As the Lord begins to shine His light on gray areas this year, know that family restoration is very much on His heart. Be vulnerable to God's love, and you will see His door open for you.

The Gray Awakening and Nursing Home Revivals

This brings us to some of the best news of the day. Truly, many of God's gray angels are about to be uncloaked--and will soon turn the world upside down.

We've heard of "Great Awakenings," and God is also bringing a "Gray Awakening," in which senior citizens across the globe will be reborn and revitalized in the river of God's love and life. A word to the nations--get ready for nursing home revivals, because they are coming!

Just like with Mary's cave and Anna's temple, God is going to turn many nursing homes into birthing clinics. Honor, blessing, and joy will overtake despair. Mantles will be passed, forgiveness will be released, and generational healing will break forth. In fact, you will see the realm of the miraculous consistently within many of these "gray walls" as pools of supernatural healing are opened.

For those who feel like they've been "put out to pasture," the Lord's eyes are truly on you now. Many of you are going to retire from your retirement--not out of necessity, but out of beckoning from God. You didn't miss your calling and destiny, in fact, you and God are both right on time!

Just as Moses imparted wisdom to his team of elders, so God wants you to impart your legacy in Him--what you lived for, and gave your life for to the children He has entrusted to you. Therefore this year, the Lord is releasing new understanding about passing the sacred torch of apostolic legacy to the next generation.

The Lord first spoke to me about "Nursing Home Revivals" while I was prophesying last February to a couple from Finland. And ever since then, I've really sensed this move of God is truly international in scope, and it is above all else a worship and prayer movement.

We've been looking for the "new sound" to emerge from youth garage bands, but many new songs from Heaven are about to be released through worship bands in senior centers as well. Houses of prayer will emerge. Watch for lines outside the door. I hear the Lord saying, "LET THE MEETINGS BEGIN!"

Jon and Jolene Hamill
Lamplighter Ministries
www.lamplighterministries.net
email: lamplighterjon@earthlink.net

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