Visitation & Mandate: “Set My Bride On Fire!”

A few years ago, I had an incredibly powerful visitation that words can’t describe. This was not simply a vision but a tangible, real-life experience. I never planned to share it publicly but instead chose to treasure it as something between me and God. So why share it now? One simple reason is that God asked me to.

I believe God is awakening hunger in the Bride. I believe He is purifying her of every spot or wrinkle. I believe He is commissioning her to rule and reign with Him like never before. I believe the miraculous will flow from her like a river, releasing freedom, healing, and supernatural life!

If you find yourself reading this blog, it is no coincidence! I believe God has a special plan for your life! I believe He wants to stir hunger in your heart for more of Him! I believe you are called and set apart with a special mandate from God. As you read this visitation, I pray that your heart is stirred with more hunger for God, a greater desire to know your purpose, and a burning passion for fulfilling your mandate.

Visitation

I woke in the middle of the night and sat up in bed to look at the time. When I looked at my clock, it said 3 am. Instantly, everything around me transformed. Suddenly, I found myself standing in the middle of a vibrant, green, grassy field. The sun was shining so brightly that it was almost blinding.

Jesus was standing before me, but I was so surprised by His extreme closeness that I almost had the wind knocked out of me! He was so close that I could feel His breath on my face and barely see anything except His eyes. They were mesmerizingly captivating and firmly locked on mine with an awe-spiring intensity of passion that hit deep in my bones.

His eyes conveyed an incredible depth of purity and intoxicating love, yet possessed such a commanding sense of power that it was overwhelming. I almost couldn’t handle the fierce magnitude of what His gaze conveyed but could barely bring myself to look away! His eyes were filled with flames of fire. They were like nothing I had ever seen! 

When I finally managed to avert my eyes, I glanced down and was shocked to see that I was wearing a wedding dress. That shock quickly turned into alarm! I was horrified that my wedding dress was covered with so many muddy hand prints you could barely see any white!

Mandate: “Set My Bride On Fire!”

When I looked back up at Jesus, the flames in His eyes grew even bigger and more intense. Suddenly, His voice boomed through my entire body as He thundered, “SET MY BRIDE ON FIRE!”  Instantly as He said this, the flames in His eyes erupted into a fierce blaze that engulfed His entire body and consumed mine as well, overtaking us both completely. Still standing as close together as possible, we were both now submerged in such a powerful inferno that I don’t fully have words to describe. I was not burned or harmed by this fire but was entirely consumed by it.

As I glanced back down, I was shocked to see all the muddy handy prints on my wedding dress were loosening and turning to dust. The dust began whimsically falling away like a slow, swirling dance as it drifted down, becoming one with the ground. My wedding dress, once muddy and tainted with the handprints of man, was now purified and glowing brilliantly white. It was almost as blindingly bright as the sun itself.

The Fear of the Lord

Instantly, I was back in my room. When I looked at the clock, it now said 5 am. Bewildered and shocked, I couldn’t comprehend how it had possibly been two hours?! What I just experienced was so intense and fast; it felt like it had happened in barely two minutes! I was not dreaming and had not been asleep. In fact, I was still sitting in the same position I was in upon waking at 3 am. Though now, I was violently shaking and crying under the power of God and felt His Glory so heavily upon me!

God’s heavy presence was so astounding and tangible that I almost panicked, not knowing what to do with the intensity of power I felt resting over and flowing through me. It was not a panic of human fear, though. It was the sobering weight of God’s holiness and the awe-inducing fear of the Lord. It was as if my human frame could not handle the powerful visitation I just had with the very real and living God! I was very aware of the seriousness of what had just transpired. I knew that Jesus had just given me a mandate from Heaven. My mandate was to set His Bride on fire!