Last night we had an awesome, and trying, time of worship and intercession with Bear and Amy Wheeler at Upper Room Family Church in Elcho, WI.  We were so excited!  We thought we were just going to go in there, call down those spirits, build a throne for the King, and party!  Well...it was more difficult than that.  Who would've thought?

First of all, about 5 people from the church showed up, not including Bear, Amy, and their usual worship leader.  So, we prayed a little bit and started the service.  The first 5 minutes were pretty dead quiet while we waited on the Lord to give us direction.  Then, Ryan began to sing and still we felt like we were hitting a wall.  Soon after that, we were quiet again.  This time, it was quiet in the room, but in my head things were going nuts!  It was a spirit of chaos and division we were battling!  I was getting so frustrated with everything.  For no reason!  Then, Kristy came up and gave me a word saying that the Lord wanted to speak through me tonight and the enemy was trying to silence me.  Well...even after that I was still frustrated.  Ryan felt it, so he started screaming for almost 20 minutes, exalting the Lord as psalms flew from his lips.  Things started to loosen.

I then went over to Ryan and asked if I could play piano and he play acoustic, so we switched.  We went into an attitude of worshipping God again and things still were getting lighter.  I suddenly felt like we needed to pray, so I told everyone that we should come together as a corporate body and pray while I would stay up and play the piano softly.  Well, when I said that, everyone in the building left except for Bear, Amy, and our group.  As soon as those people walked out, the resistance left with them.

As the team was praying, a few really good words came out, and I felt the need to get on my guitar again.  When I did, I felt a wave of the Holy Spirit blow over me.  Just a while after that, the team had reached a point when nobody had prayed anything for some time, so I started to sing.  I was just worshipping when I started calling out the destiny of Wisconsin.  Then, the Lord began to show me Ezekiel walking through the valley of dry bones.  As he walked he prophesied.  And as he prophesied, the four winds came like fire and lit up the bones.  They rattled and came together.

After seeing this awesome vision, I asked the Lord what it meant.  I had recently heard that a while back, Smith Wigglesworth had prophesied that in the end times, a fire from the Northwoods (which is where we are) would bring revival to the nation.  The prophecy is about 30 years old and the Lord told me that hope and faith to see it fulfilled was being diminished.  His word for that area was dying, becoming old, dried up bones, and believers were beginning to wonder if it was even going to happen...if there was any hope.  So as I began to sing over the dry bones, that they would come to life, the Lord was releasing faith, hope, and renewed vision for His word.  Destiny!  Ryan and Bear fell on the floor in deep intercession and could only groan.  He was restoring, renewing, and refreshing vision!  It was the most amazing and encouraging feeling!  I can't even hardly explain it!

God is bringing revival to the Northwoods and to America!  He's resurrecting the dry bones!  He's renewing vision!  Greater things have yet to come, and greater things are still to be done in this city!  In this nation!

Josh Cotts