Glory breaking into the Viking Land!!

Oslo, Norway

04.14.08

There is some serious movement happening in Scandinavia! He is moving with righteousness across the land to purify His bride and prepare her for this next great wave or outpouring and revival. Its wild because we got this word about “April showers will bring May flowers” before the trip…and God was showing us that an outpouring of His Presence in the world at unprecedented levels in April would bring forth a divine harvest in May!! When we landed in Norway and walked out of the airport…the exact same thing happened to us just like in Amsterdam a week earlier. It began snowing and raining very hard and very fast!! In both cities this is a very rare thing for the middle of April…so I firmly this was not a mere “coincidence”..but rather confirmation to the word God spoke before the trip! Don’t you just love it when stuff like that happens? Its happening more and more in my life and the lives of friends all around me. Why? Because He is LONGING to come and bring a fresh rain to His people!!

Norway is one of those nations I never though of myself ever going to…not because I didn’t like it but its just a country you don’t hear too much about. So when I found myself shortly after we arrived in shivering in downtown Oslo listening to a massive group of believers in the square singing “If God doesn’t build His move in our nation…its builders build in vain” (Ps. 127)..I had to pinch myself!! Now this is just freaky!! I have been studying and meditating on that same exact verse the past few weeks when faced with the challenges of seeing this grassroots move expand to the darkest nations of the world! To hear Norwegian’s singing the same thing and crying out to God with their unique sound just about broke me! GOD IS DOING THIS ALL OVER THE WORLD!! IF YOU DONT GET ANYTHING ELSE FROM THIS BLOG…AT LEAST GET THAT! This citywide gathering was in response to legislation the government is working to pass mandating that school cirriculum teach and accept that gay marriage is normal and no one may challenge it. We were so happy to take part and see the church rising up against this unrighteous legislation and take her stand as the “watchmen on the wall.”

Later that evening we were on a farm an hour outside of town and had an incredible time of worship, prayer, impartation and sharing this BURNING vision for the nation. God was downloading visions and words for the country as well as meeting the peoples physical, spiritual and emotional needs. It was beautiful. We met people from Romania, the UK, and all over the Europe. They are a hungry bunch!! Rachel had this vision of Norway being a solid rock covered with dirt and mud. God began to remove the dirt and chaff to reveal the Rock of Our Salvation the nation was originally founded on. This nation has a rich history and legacy God is revealing in this hour and even national symbol is this massive and fierce looking Lion!

We quickly found out that Norway is in fact the richest or one of the richest nations on earth. To buy a can of coke from the gas station is almost $6 US!! That is insane!! I don’t know how these people live! We had a beautiful time the next day meeting with prayer and worship leaders from all over the country. We shared our hearts together over some fresh Salmon (some of the best i’ve had!) on a mountain top lodge overlooking the city. We quickly discovered that many of these people have longed for a Furnace in their nation since before I was even born!! WOW!! God had been birthing this for some time!! We all agreed that NOW IS THE TIME FOR FULFILLMENT OF THESE DREAMS IN NORWAY.

One of my favorite moments in Norway (besides eating lots of fresh salmon and moose meet) and one of the big reasons we came happened on the night before we flew out. We were taken to visit the home of farmer turned fiery revivalist Hans Nielsen Hauge. You’ve probably never heard of him before and neither did I until I walked into his 1771 home and almost fell on my face because of the glory of God that was STILL in resting in his room! This is not a joke and this dude was the real deal!! He was out working in fields in the late 1700’s and at 25 years old had a divine visitation with Jesus from which He was forever changed. He spent the next three days nonstop in his upper room processing all that God wanted him to do to see revival come to Norway. This guy not only planted hundreds of house of prayers, churches, and walked in signs, wonders and miracles, but God downloaded to him business strategies to revolutionize the economy. He is still considered to be the greatest economic reformer and entrepreneurialism in Norwegian history. Norway today has one of the strongest economies in the world and is tied with Korea as highest sender of missionaries per capita in the world largely due to the life this man. So we laid out prostrate on the floor of his house and received the mantle God gave him on behalf of an entire generation of revivalists, furnace planters, economic reformers, musicians, preachers, and lovers of God!!

This could easily be the most powerful moment on the entire trip! God always saves the best wine for last!!
You must check out the Youtube videos of this guys home on the links below…I pray the same impartation comes through your screen and lights you up!!

God release the mantles of old and the new ones on a generation of nameless and faceless warriors!! Do it to ordinary and unqualified people like you did with the lowly farmer Hans Nielsen Hauge!!

RELEASE IT AGAIN ON NORWAY GOD!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43FKyf8jCsc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehM3ENyJhXQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxQyi1r7ibY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkkv9Aq9LHg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbVfnvcMKMo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S97l30YiB-Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEe-SLyeF44

dreaming with God…

sean