Malachi 3:2-4

In December of 2018, for the first time, the Lord gave me a word for the new year. Over time His word for the next year would come earlier, usually in time for the Jewish New Year.

I learned over time, His Word for the “year” was marking a season that we were entering into. It was for nations, the Church, the individual and so on rather than an isolated calendar year.

As believers, we can either pray for the things the Lord shows us or sit idly by and wait to see how this plays out. As prophetic intercessors, it is our responsibility to pray into what God shows us. I have often used Daniel 9 as a foundational passage of viewing history through the lens of the Lord. This involves hearing what God has said, holding onto His promises, observing the timelines, and praying into what He says will come. Why? Because God partners with His people to release His will and His ways into the earth. He has done this since the beginning of time. He did this with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and so on.

At the end of July and into August of 2026, I had a series of dreams involving the following three topics:

• The Nation
• The Church
• The People of God

The dreams came in two sets. One set over the course of three days: July 18, 19 & 20. Then the second set over the course of three days: August 1, 2, & 3. I’m going to share them topically rather than consecutively to avoid confusion.

On July 18, 2026, I had a dream wherein I saw the United States encased in stone. The Lord came and began to chisel or carve it out of the stone. It was a painstaking process. He was meticulously chiseling along the edges of the nation to dislodge it from the place where it was being careful not to lose even a single acre. It was an incredibly lengthy process.

I never sleep through the night but this particular night, I slept through the entire night yet awoke exhausted. Scientists estimate dreams last anywhere from 5 to 45 minutes. However, I felt this dream lasted all night long, with me observing the Lord’s work from the moment I fell asleep, to the time I awoke the next morning. I saw this as a testament of His persevering fight to set our nation free from our stone casing.

The Lord let me see the casing we were in was a mixture of things, from financial bondages to ideologies like Communism and Marxism to deceptions, corruption, bloodletting, that which the Cabal has brought us into. There are agencies and systems in place the Lord is planning to separate us from as well. We should look to this and not become upset when there is a call to separate from a globalist system or organization. There are those who want America to be isolationists—no wars, zero funding in terms of conflicts, etc., yet they have no problem with our involvement in the United Nations, or WHO, even financial organizations such as IMF, WEF, and IBS. That should be a red flag for us. There’s great exposure coming of these organizations, their real agendas, not by conspiracy theorists, but I saw documented court records coming out to demonstrate the truth about their agencies. We need to look to this and embrace what God is doing. Pray for grace. People often feel a need to instantly deny awful things when they are presented, that comes from shock, and the Lord said: “a season of shock and awe is coming.” (8/17/26) We need to prepare!

Pray for a separation from all unholy alliances, it is time.

There is going to be much more exposed in the days ahead, remember, we are still in a time of “open books” and we’ve only scratched the surface. These things have caused us to be encased in a prison of stone. Our nation’s heart is not soft toward God. Everything we are doing as intercessors is to soften this and prepare the nation for the expansion of the Awakening and Revival. The expansion of the Awakening is going to be like a catapult thrusting us forward and it will help to shed these things from our hearts and our hands. Pray for grace.

The next dream came two weeks later, August 1st, I went back into the dream that began on July 18th, this time however, the nation was resting in the palm of the Lord; it was soft and supple. With His right hand, the Lord proceeded to remove the last vestiges of that which did not please Him. Most of these seemed to be roots, the roots that led to corruption, the roots that led to the hinderances, the roots that led to Roe v Wade and the “women’s health” aka pro-abortion legislation, the roots of deception and so on. Again, this dream lasted all night. The Lord worked feverishly throughout, not a second was wasted.

Note: As prophetic intercessors who partner with our Lord in His work, I recommend that if you live in a state that has pro-abortion legislation on the books for this coming election, repent for greed, pride, bloodletting and cry out to God to intervene that these bills will not be passed.

To me, the length of these experiences is a testament to both the hardness we once walked in and the intentionality of our Lord to set us free.

On July 19, 2026, I had another dream. In this one, the Lord was chiseling the Church from its own hard casing. I knew it was the Church because it was represented by those one-room Churches with the steeple that were built in the early days of our nation.

The same thing was happening with the Church that happened with the nation, the Lord meticulously chiseled away to dislodge us from a place we’d settled into. I saw drops of water dripping onto the Church as He chiseled away, I looked up to see where it was coming from, the Lord was weeping, He was weeping over the Church. This gripped my heart and I saw the Church through His eyes as He worked. I often felt I could not breathe through the grief.

The Church was cluttered and convoluted. It was filled and then encased with the social gospel, cultural Marxism, an embracing of sin, knowingly, to fill the pews instead of standing for Truth to change the heart. There was an utter compromise of some pastors in terms of sin and the Word of God and He was dealing with it right then and there. This is going to be a heavy season for the Church because God is preparing it to house Revival and disciple those who come into the Kingdom through it, it must be purified.

Pray for the Church to be purified, to hunger and thirst for God like never before, if God has given you a burden, weep my friends, weep for the Church. The Lord is weeping over the Church, should we not do the same?

August 2, 2026, I had part two of this dream. The Church, like the nation, was soft and supple in the palm of our Lord. He was tediously pulling out the last vestiges of debris and until it was a heart of flesh and it began to beat.

I saw the outcome here; the Church became a new refined house of God. They were dedicated to prayer and the Word. Truth emanated from the Church so much so, it became the epicenter of Truth. I saw them rise and flourish in the earth. It was not a monetary thing; it was a flourishing that spread across the nation and then beyond our borders. It was like a grassy field after the start of the rainy season—it quickly transitions from a dry and brittle wasteland to a green and supple landscape.

The youth were drawn to the Church like a magnet. Their desire was to experience God’s presence, to seek Truth, to find Truth and the Church was filling them up to capacity.

We do not realize how much the American Church impacts the health and vitality of the world-wide Church, but we will in the days ahead. I believe this is why it’s been targeted by Cultural Marxist ideology the way it has, the enemy believes that if he can take down the American Church, he will be able to take down THE Church has a whole and so far, that tactic has been effective at weaking the Church. Pastors from other nations come here to our Bible Schools and then go home and spread a watered down or prosperity Gospel and the fire within that once enabled them to endure the persecution in their countries or keep the fire burning in their land is fizzling out. While pastors have a responsibility before God, the Lord is going to deal with Bible colleges; unexpected changes are coming.

In the early days of our nation, pastors would incorporate newspaper clippings as they wrote their sermons. They would cover the issues impacting the community and the colonies so their congregation would always have a Biblical worldview. They delivered messages on everything from taxation to marriage, to the Church’s responsibility to engage in our elections. The real Church is going to rise again!

The Church will become a force to be reckoned with; I cannot fully express the force behind the Church when it’s been fully separated unto God. It was a powerful dream!

On July 20, 2026, I had dream wherein I saw the people of God, represented by a man, being chiseled out of the world. Like the nation, like the Church, it was a painstaking process wherein the Lord, with His own hands, was carving us out from where we were lodged. There was a different feel to this dream, it was very a personalized effort. While the issues do have crossovers with the nation and the Church, because the people impact the Church, and the Church impacts the nation, these are personal issues. I have some messages coming in the days ahead to address what the Lord showed me without rushing to incorporate it all here, they will help us both prepare and avail ourselves to what God is doing within us.

Just remember when the Lord is chiseling or carving something out, it is always from a place we should not have been.

The second dream came August 3, 2026. I saw the man in the palm of the Lord. He’d been separated, having gone through intense refining of both his heart and mind and much had been removed from him.

The Lord spoke over him: “As silver is refined and the dross is lifted off, so will My people be.” This was the first time I heard the Lord speak in all 6 dreams indicating to me the importance of the work occurring in this dream. He is refining us to remove the dross and prepare a people He can use for His purposes. I was standing behind the Lord at this point, watching over His shoulder and when I looked at the man, he reflected the face of the Lord. This is what we are called to do; we are a to be reflection of Him in both word and deed. (James 1:22)

The man of God was separated from the world; he took his directives from God and went about the work of the Kingdom. His sole purpose in life was to pursue the will and ways of God and implement them in the place God put him. He influenced the world in which he lived, but his pursuit was much higher than this world.

I saw this repeated over and over, one man after another, those who resisted, were put aside. Those who submitted to this process became wholly separated unto God and He would set them down and they would begin to run.

I saw Moses, David, and Paul flash before me. I believe these are examples of those who pursued God with every ounce of their being. They had a heart after God, yet they loved the people they were sent to lead enough to lay down their lives for them. I believe this is the definition of having a heart after God’s own heart.

—End of dreams—

I sat before the Lord with these dreams for weeks, I felt like I was reliving them every day. When people hear “separation” they feel uneasy and because He knew the weight presenting this put upon my heart, one day while I was out walking and praying over this, He simply said, “tell them this: if they can remember throughout this process that I am separating to unify, they will thrive.”

This is not to be a burden, the Lord wants us, the Church and the Nation to thrive! This is not a prosperity thing; this is an expansion and extension of His people to equip them with the capacity to endure the rigors of the Revival and the Awakening!

As I prayed over this, the Lord spoke to me about some additional subcategories I want to briefly go through now. I was not able to share this online due to the time constraints, but I want to go ahead and put them out in writing for prayer and preparation. I’ll cover this in more detail online the coming weeks. Again, it’s a time of “shock and awe” so preparation is key.

Church Leaders: there’s a deep work coming to the leadership of the Church. In the end, there will be a separation unto the Lord like we have not seen in our lifetimes. George Whitmore, Jonathan Edwards, were truly set apart. We will see this again. Pastors will be put to the test, many have already been put through significant testing, and they have failed every time. As a result, they will drift off or fade away from the picture, and the New Breed of Believers the Lord has been preparing since 2020 will step forward.

Politicians: we will see something similar in the political realm. There is a reckoning coming, the bloodletting must end! Politicians who tout allegiance to God while refusing to be transformed by or obedient to Him will be pulled from the spotlight and the new Breed of Politician the Lord has been preparing since 2020 will arise.

July 17, 2026, the Lord told me the Den of Deceivers was coming down.

Academia: I saw charter schools and homeschools groups, they appeared like one-room schoolhouses, rising while public schools ---those Den of Deceivers—took a sharp decline! The New Breed of Educators will arise! They will be a force in the earth who will fight for TRUTH!

Media: those refusing to broadcast truth will become like Entertainment Tonight. The public’s trust in both major media networks and social media influencers will sharply decline, and the New Breed of Journalists will come forth. There will be a drawing to them by the public: Nick Shirley is a prime example of a new Breed of Journalist!

The Youth: The Lord is preparing the hearts and mind of our youth in particular, He is going to remove that which leads to corruption to prepare them to lead in the future of both the Church and the nation.

The Lord says “2027 is the Year of Separation”

The purpose of which is to:

This is going to cause some chaos. If we will lean into the chaos instead of running from it, it would go much better for us, and then we can pray both the Church and the nation through this season. Rarely a moment passes when I don’t see the chisel. This has weighted heavily upon my heart since the first dream, largely because things like this cause anxiety in people. We need to mature beyond our emotions and look at this through the lens of the Lord.

The intercessors will be instrumental in this separation. I saw higher levels of anointing placed upon those who’ve been faithful and prepared themselves, so lean into the Lord for this anointing. I return to the Scripture I read at the beginning:

Malachi 3:2-4

There is purpose in what God does! Yes, it’s a serious time of transformation, but the outcome will be a time of glorious outpouring!

I want to close with this: The last two weeks I’ve seen the Angelic Host of the 9Rs at work across the Land almost every day. The Lord first showed me this in a vision 12.4.2025. They are with us, helping us, they will strengthen us, as we partner with them through our prayers. We are not alone!

I was out walking and praying, I saw the 9 R’s in 3D form right in front of me. I struggle to explain the details of this experience. I took a step and suddenly I stepped into the spirit. I was walking across America! As I did, I witnessed a remarkable working of the Heavenly Host, the Angels of the 9 Rs. I cannot explain what they looked like, they moved so quickly. These angels are on special assignments by the Lord; they are working on the land. These angelic beings went before me, working on their respective missionary role, sowing into the land, the specific work of that “R” they are the head of.

I took another step, and then another, as I continued to traverse across the nation. I cannot fully explain with human words what I experienced, but I went from walking out on in the cold winter morning, hearing the noise of traffic and birds and children, to stepping into the warmth and quiet hum of the spirit where time and space is all relative to God’s directives. As I walked, I saw explosions, not destruction, but explosions in the spirit. These explosions looked like starbursts, bursting forth with the intercessions of the last 26 years. They were bursting with revival, with renewal, with reformation and so on! The nation lit up with the working of these angelic beings, the intercessions of the saints having sewn decades of intercession in the land to uproot corruption, deception, communism, bloodletting, and bring forth the Awakening, the Revolution, the full and wholehearted Reclamation and Renewal of our land. They moved so quickly, uprooting, depositing, rebuilding, every movement ordered by the Lord Himself. The work of these angels is so magnificent. I saw the intercessors praying and as they prayed the heavenly host were strengthened and their work became even more effective. God has sent them, this land is His land, and He is working more than we realize or see on the surface.

I stepped out of this experience and back into the cold and foggy streets of my neighborhood. The noise of traffic returned, the birds, the children playing. However, the wonder of what God is doing, even when we don’t see it, filled my spirt to overflowing.

Yes, this is a difficult time, we are in a war unlike anything we’ve experienced before. It is for the soul of the nation. In the end however, our nation will be restored to God’s plans and purposes with a true reconciliation with God. It will be beyond comparison.

2027 is the Year of Separation, but we are not alone. We are in the palm of the Lord being equipped to release His heavenly will into the earth!

Blessings & love,

Ricci Johnson-Wilson