Mom called me last week and told me she’d had a dream that she called me and asked me what the Lord had shown me about the Awakening. In the dream, the Lord said it was imperative that I share this with our team and the intercessors. I told her I’d shared some of it before, but she said if the Lord says to share it again, we must obey.

I first saw glimpses of the Awakening during our DC Gathering of the Eagles in 2019. I saw the Glory poured out over the land and it went forth from nation to nation transforming them from within. Before the path was over, the Glory of God had made its way around the world. I likened it to the spread of the Azusa Street with the impact of the Welsh Revival, but the truth is, both movements were not merely revivals, what was occurring was an Awakening in the earth. It takes an awakening to carry a movement into 60 countries in under two years. The Lord allowed me to witness this pour out over the land and into other nations. I saw laws change, hearts softened, and the youth weeping as they cried out to the Lord.

The Lord gave me a vision wherein He was walking across the nation, weeping and sweeping the soot (corruption) as He went across the land. The intercessors were at His feet, weeping and sweeping alongside Him. When He arrived at the Eastcoast, the soot nearly filled the land again and He returned to the Westcoast for a second round. This time, however, when we arrived at the Grand Canyon, I turned around and saw the retainers and maintainers come forth from out of the sea. Together we trekked across the land and upon arrival at the Eastcoast, we could see that the land had remained cleansed.

The intercessors remained at His feet throughout both treks, yet the difference in the second round was found in the impact the Awakening had on the people. There are those God created to retain and maintain the work done in the spiritual realm. They are the “retainers and maintainers”. These men and women will be provoked to participate in the fight to save the nation. They will transform the nation in the natural to reflect what God has done in the spiritual.

The Awakening is unlike anything any of us have experienced in our lifetimes and as the Spirit of God rolls out over the land, it will provoke those rods of righteousness to arise and take their place! We have prayed, “Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will be Done” for years, we’ve cried out for the Kingdom of Heaven to be released in the earth—that is what is fulfilled through the Awakening.

Don’t take this lightly! It impacts both the natural and the spiritual realms. Make no mistake, God rebuilds and births nations through the Awakening. Hearts are softened toward God, and laws are changed to align with the Word of God. America was born amid the 1st Great Awakening. Legislation was passed in 1782, not long after, which authorized the printing of the Bible here in America so it could be made readily available to the citizens of America. Prior to this, it was illegal for us to print the Bible, and it had to be imported from Great Britain. Upon the passing of this legislation, it was determined that it would be made available and distributed as part of the instruction within our public school system.

I’ve seen it in several visions over the years, I’m not alone, Mom saw it first!

I was praying in the Spirit. I had a vision of the nation. Mom and I, along with our team and the intercessors, were pulling this nation up to a finish line. We were so close to reaching that goal, and although it seemed we were in a race, there were no other nations on either side of us. Still, the atmosphere felt very time sensitive.

The fight was hard, and movement was slow. We were exhausted, yet so driven we were unstoppable. When we were almost up to the finish line, the view panned out, and I could see the other nations, they were behind us. They were not racing, they could not move on their own, America was pulling them with ropes. It was as though we were a giant ship, and the other nations were dinghies or small vessels being pulled by America.

I also noted huge chains with anchors hanging from the back of the nation and weighting us down. There were links on the chains that were open, weakening them. This was clearly a result of prayer. We ran to the back end of the nation with sword in hand and severed the links in those weakened areas one by one. After the last chain was cut, the nation was thrust forward! The ropes were still intact, the nations behind us were still in tow. Geographically, none of this made sense but they were all being pulled behind America.

As we approached the finish line, an explosion occurred, and we were thrust forward. The explosion rippled across the land like it was moving through gelatin! As the ripples of the explosion flowed outward, light replaced darkness. (It was not until this moment that I realized the nation had been shrouded in darkness.) The ripples continued building and extended to the end of the nation, then rippled across the ropes and into the nations we were pulling behind us. They too received light. The momentum from nation to nation was incredible! Nothing could stop it!

The Lord allowed me to see the nation in the spirit. It seemed split horizontally with the top layer revealing what was done through intercession in the spiritual realm, and that work was then poured out onto the bottom layer and released in the natural realm. For example, 25 years of repentance and intercession (spiritual) resulted in the overturning of Roe v Wade (natural). Decades of intercession (spiritual) resulting in laws that re-introduce Bible reading into the schools in Texas, and others requiring the 10 Commandments to be displayed (natural).

The explosion was the Awakening. It began in January of 2023. The Awakening ultimately impacts both the spiritual and the natural layers.

What occurred in the spiritual was the intercession. What occurred in the natural was the outcome: preaching, teaching, people were saved, healed, delivered and ignited for Jesus just like on Pentecost, during America’s 1st Great Awakening in the 1700s as well as our 2nd Great Awakening, better known as the “Azusa Street Revival.”

I saw in the natural scaffolding quickly erected alongside beaten and battered buildings and the restoration process began. With the completion of each building, a light would turn on and cause it to glow. The scaffolding would be taken down and quickly erected alongside another building.

This is where I saw it… the buildings being restored were the ancient buildings. The iconic representations of our nation. The Supreme Court, the White House, The Congress. The Lincoln Monument, the Reflecting Pool, were polished and shining brightly, the Library of Congress was purged and restored to Truth.

I wondered in my heart what was happening. The Lord impressed upon me, that with each light that turned on within a restored building, He was giving it His stamp of approval. As if He was decreeing that this building, or what it represents, had been: “Purged. Restored to Truth.”

The Ecclesia grew and expanded on both levels at this point, some running for key offices and having favor of both levels because they represented life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

There was a merging of ideas, not a compromise but a merging of righteous ideals surrounded by light. They bounced between these two realms—the spiritual and natural layers—and I saw them expand as they moved back and forth. When these ideas reached their optimum level, they burst open and poured out over the land as liquid gold causing the restoration process to speed up!

This is key… these visions were of the Awakening. It impacts every realm, every mountain of influence we’ve been fighting for in prayer. We are seeing this in our government today with the exposure and elimination of fraud, waste and abuse. Our nation is being rebuilt. This is part of the Awakening! To date, over 900 major fraud enforcement actions across the country spanning Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP benefits, unemployment benefits, education benefits and so on, to the tune of over a billion dollars, that’s taxpayer dollars that will no longer feed corruption. Now, a new task force has been added to include trade and customs fraud.

This is what God does in the Awakening. He ignites the retainers and maintainers to surround and force the corruption to the surface to be dealt with by the hammer of justice!

We set aside that which God is provoking us to set aside so we can bring in the new, God-ordained Kingdom of God. It transitions people from wanderers to warriors for the Kingdom of Heaven. Side note: we need to ask the Lord for grace for the church, the nation and its citizens, to come up out of our comfort zones to embrace the new. You can read the Gospels, beginning with Matthew 3 & 4 and see how religious and political leaders dealt with the new move of God occurring. We need grace.

This occurs with individuals, families, the Church, and the nation. It will be like the balm of Gilead pouring out over the nation.

The youth will be greatly impacted. Those younger children have faith for limbs to grow out, the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk. During Azusa Street the youth were so immersed in the Spirit of God, they would play hide and seek in the cloud of His Glory. The adults would be on their faces, and the children would swim in the Glory.

It will ignite purpose in our youth. They are looking for purpose; the Awakening will open them to that very thing.

We were in staff prayer 5 years ago. We were experiencing a special flow in the Spirit; the Lord suddenly commandeered our time together as we prayed over our youth. We transitioned from physical healing to mental bondages and then into the spiritual apathy of the youth in this nation. The call to awaken them came with such urgency, we blew the shofars over them like an alarm clock! I called the young people to wake up from their slumber!

The Spirit of the Lord poured out His prayer over them: “It’s time, it’s time for My children to arise and war!” He instructed me to call forth the Scriptures stored deep within their hearts!

I immediately called Scriptures our youth heard as young people. Every single one, ones they memorized, the ones God tucked away in their hearts from Sunday School class, those parents read to or over them, each one was set strategically in place within them to preserve them for such a time as this.

The Lord opened my eyes to see those Scriptures bursting forth inside their spirits, I watched in awe as they exploded like starbursts in their hearts and then began to spread out from there! These starbursts released healing and restoration into their lives. This process impacted their hearts, their minds, and coursed through the layers of their soul. Healing and restoration came forth in waves!

Then, I had a vision of the Lion of Judah. He came up behind the youth, and He roared with a mighty roar! I felt His ROAR course through my body. This could only be described as a sonic boom in the spirit realm. Intercession burst out from our team and was released across the city, the state, and the nation.

The sonic waves of the ROAR of the Lion of Judah went forth! I saw as they traveled across the earth with my natural eyes! It was the most marvelous thing to witness! His mission was successful! He impacted children, awakened the youth, and young adults everywhere!

His ROAR is living in and of itself, and it went out on the hunt for His children, to bring them back into the fold! Much like the lion sends forth his unique call to his pride, one that only they will respond to, the Lion of Judah sent forth His call to His children, and the impact of that call was, and will be, incredible!

Again, His ROAR went forth, I saw the air thrust outward under the force of His explosive ROAR, another wave to reach even further and impact in greater measure. The extraordinary call of the Lord for His children was not going to fail! He sent it out, again and again!

The young people could not help but respond to the ROAR of the Lion! They heard the call; they FELT His ROAR as it hit their bodies and broke strongholds from deep within! They turned and stepped forward, now alert and engaged.

I watched those in their teens, their twenties, thirties, and even up to the forties come out of a zombie-like state, alert and engaged; they ran into the fight! Some were caught up in the Culturist Marxist, social justice platforms that are contrary to God’s Word (BLM, LGTBQI+, Critical Race Theory) and when the ROAR of the Lion coursed through their bodies, that Marxist veil of deception came crashing down and they fled from these platforms and into the army of God! It was so powerful to witness as they began to war with the same fervor on behalf of the Kingdom of Heaven!

Next, He showed me the prodigals coming up the road! I was compelled to call them from the north to the south, from the east and to the west, “come home, come home, come HOME!” I shouted out! I looked back to their homes and cried out to their families, “prepare the feast they are on the road, I see them, they are coming home! Prepare the fattened calf for the prodigals are returning!” They began to run into the arms of not just their families, but even more importantly, was their run toward the destiny God created them to fulfill!

It was incredible! The whole time of prayer was phenomenal! This is the Awakening!

I awakened from a dream as I cried out “The Baptism of Fire, It’s Here!” In the dream, I was in a room with young adults, they were worshiping the Lord, they were weeping before Him, they were devouring His Word. They could not get enough of His presence.

I liken what I saw to my experience at Christian Camp with my church when I was 12. Every night I ran to the altar, as if to get saved once again. I hungered and thirsted for what I experienced at the altar, every day I could not wait for the nightly service, because all I wanted was to run to the altar and be filled with a greater presence of the Lord.

This was a personal gift to me to allow me the opportunity to experience an insatiable hunger for God. It was a baptism of fire, and this is my cry for the youth today.

Whether God has called us to be a preacher, intercessor, worshipper, warrior, even leader in the nation in which you live, there is a destiny placed within each of us before we are born. The awakening ignites the Light of the living God into the heart and soul and that light courses through our veins to enable us to fulfill our God-given destiny. What kind of destinies do we see in this hour? God is calling His children to rise as courageous Christians, unashamed, unafraid, unwilling to compromise regardless of the cost. These are those who grab hold of their destiny and run! Again, the youth are looking for purpose, the Awakening will ignite purpose in their hearts.

This presents a level of protection over the nation while also creating an atmosphere of mutual respect and humility with our fellow man. Even those who are not walking with God will fear God, His works, His ways. It will roll out over the nation. I’ve seen a Holy Fear of God blanket our nation in visions. Man will fear touching a child inappropriately, doctors will fear performing abortions, men will once again fear the justice system, not only will prisons begin to be emptied, but they will stay empty because the desire to offend their fellow man will quickly be met with the internal understanding that justice reigns in the land. When Mom and I have spoken on returning to the 50s, there was a respect for oneself and our fellow man that existed in the 50s so that compelled even those who did not attend Church, to fear offending Him.

The Awakening birthed this nation, for 30 years it gave hope to indentured servants, commoners and those Britain saw as insignificant in the grand scheme of things. However, hearing the words of men such as John Wesley and George Whitefield poured into the colonists the Truth found in the Word of God and they came to see how the preponderance of Scripture demonstrates that all men are created equal with inalienable rights under God. These rights cannot be given, nor can they be taken from us.

The 2nd Great Awakening spread the Gospel from America to over 60 countries in under two years. Nations were transformed through the work of the 2nd Great Awakening. South Korea became a nation of prayer, whose resources went to spreading the Gospel through missionaries and distribution of Bibles. That tiny nation rose as a light in the earth, and their efforts to spread the Gospel were second only to America!

I’ve shared many things here that the Lord has shown me about the impact the Great Awakening will have in the earth, but I believe I’ve only touched the surface of what we are going to witness if we will continue to press in through prayer.

When you think about it…if the 1st Great Awakening birthed this nation, and the 2nd Great Awakening used this nation as a platform, a launching pad really, to spread the Gospel unto all the earth, can you imagine what the 3rd Great Awakening will do?!

Blessings & love,

Ricci Johnson-Wilson