Im going to read you a scripture in Ezekiel 1:13-14 because wild fire is often started by lightning and is says "As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: the fire went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning."

Here we are talking about angelic visitation, were talking about activity in the heavens, were talking about the glory and the atmosphere of heaven invading, were talking about a tensions, were talking about an energy in the atmosphere all of those things we are talking about and it is charged ready for something to happen. There has to be something that explodes! There has to be something that breaks through! There has to be something that marks the moment and cuts through that level of tension, but it just cannot remain like thatyou cannot go on without breakthrough into something. And we are at that place.

And I believe that when God speaks about the wild fire Hes saying "Listen its started by lightning!" And God is going to bring some lightning to ignite! At its not just to ignite something for a conference but God is declaring there has been a shift! The season of the kingdom has changed! And we know the kingdom has come, is coming and is come. We know that! But there has been a fresh download of the kingdom and God is saying "This is it!" When Sarah [Trinder] ministered earlier and shared that John the Baptist sent a message to Jesus and asked "Is this it or shall we look for something else?" He said go tell him the kingdom is here! The kingdom is here! That is where we are right now. This is a fresh day of that.

DIFFICULT TO EXTINGUISH

Also the wild fire has another attribute it is difficult to extinguish

The Spirit of God is wanting to build something in you that is sustainable for the Nation not just for your Nation. Something that cannot be restrained.

This takes us back to the very first characteristic - its uncontrollable, it cannot be restrained. Thank God! Thank God!

Sound of the Anvil Update
February 2006 (Paul Leader)

The wild-fire will not be tamed. It will find an outlet. We may think it is being contained but it will break-out all across this Nation. Wild-fire cannot be contained or controlled. Jeremiah thought he could get it under control, he said to God, "I am not going to speak out for you ever again, I will keep it all under wraps, I am not going to be humiliated anymore going against the flow of niceness in this land." That is where we have been, trying to keep the fire under control and making it palatable. Building fire-places and bon-fires instead of releasing the full wild-fire, thinking this will make us acceptable. What did Jeremiah experience? " I tried to keep it inside but I could not, it was like a fire in my bones that I just could not hold back any longer- here it comes- whoosshh. FIRE!!!!FIRE!!!!FIRE!!!!"

This is the picture of breakthrough in the land, it will be uncontainable, we will have to let it out. When it is released it will consume quickly. Open doors in heaven will cause a backdraft effect that will speed up the power of the flame. Before we know it Nations will be effected, especially Europe; Poland, France, Norway, Sweden, Croatia, Spain- all caught up in the unfurling waves of flame that will soon be released. This will not be a tameable fire. This is wild-fire.

Fireman Vision

16th Feb 2006, Dave Vaughan

I saw the landscape of Wales in a vision, there was molten fiery hot larva flowing all over the surface of the land. It looked like the whole of Wales was totally ablaze in a hot burning molten fire, as I looked I noticed that the landscape was changed and was hardly recognisable. There were few mountains and it looked almost as if it was all flat and that the fire had totally changed the landscape as we know it too the point that Wales was unrecognisable.

The vision then shifted and what was once the landscape became a huge giant of a man lying on its back and the hot molten fire that I saw was coursing through and over the body of this huge giant. As I looked I saw the Prophets in Wales prophesying life to the giant and commanding it to live, they stood over it together and with one voice were declaring words of life and destiny. At the same time I saw angels wearing surgical masks who were performing some sort of medical procedure to the giant as the prophetic words went forth.

I so believe that this is the time for Wales to rise up among the nations as a fiery giant, filled with and carrying the Welsh wildfire. The prophetic voice is being released in Wales that this is the time to arise. There has been a massive shift in the realm of the spirit in these days where angels have been released to Wales on assignment to see this nation come into its destiny as a wildfire nation. As the word of God is being released there is a co-operation in the spirit with the angelic host to see the purposes of God fulfilled. As the wildfire is released in Wales its not only going to bring a total transformation to the spiritual landscape of the nation so that it will be unrecognisable but will also bring a shift of alignment in other nations of the world. Just today we went to England for a one day conference and it was so easy to see that what is manifesting in England is very tame and controllable, and desperately needs the raw, violent, and very much uncontrollable wildfire that Wales is destined to take to the nations.

Come on Wales! Its time to arise as a Giant of fire, to set the nations ablaze

Submitted in love Dave

The Baptism Of Fire
Shawn Bolz, 18^th April 2006

I met with a pastor, recently, in one of the cities I was in. Over the past twenty years, this man was used by God to host some of the most strategic events in that region. He also held a place of passion that was esteemed by pastors of many denominations in the area. His church was large and his vision endless. When I met with him, there was a large gap between those glory years and where he and his church were at now. He was at a completely different place than even five years ago. He doesn't attend regional meetings anymore, let alone host them. He is still in ministry, but it took him a lot to even consider meeting with a prophetic voice, but nevertheless, he arranged the meeting.

Before my meeting with this man of God, I spent time with another leader in the city. That leader found out about my appointment and said, "Oh, he is jaded and disillusioned...he has lost his ground. I think God is giving his mantle to someone else."

I understood why this leader would say this but this statement was narrow-minded and self-serving. It wasn't a Kingdom perspective but more of a western world corporate perspective, and it was offensive.

When I met with this man of God, I went into a vision. I could see countless saints who are all around the world today who have been used greatly by God but have not entered into their greater works that were promised. I believe many of these saints are going through one of the hardest but also greatest seasons they have ever been in. This is a season of both a purging of self and imbuing of the Divine nature of Christ.

The Furnace That Prepares Us For The Baptism Of Fire

When someone is going through a firing, they are being stripped of any other identity that satisfied them outside of being the one who Jesus loves. They are also being delivered of self. I was given the passage of scripture in 2 Peter 3:14-15--"So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with Him (God). Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation."

In these sometimes long, drawn-out seasons, God is training them to be an overcomer, to have wisdom and understanding, so they can be mentors to a generation of those who are about to come into the Kingdom. The Lord is patient to fulfil the fullness of His purpose. We have to see the eternal perspective like Peter and Paul did, so that we can be patient for the Lord's purposes.

Let me state that I am not addressing people who have fallen into sin and immorality. I am not addressing those who have been in a ministry and have failed in holiness (although the good news for those is that we have all fallen short of the glory of God). That is a different subject. We are talking about those in the church who have been set apart to be ones who overcome in this generation and are going through a wilderness of God's proving love. Jesus went through this sort of wilderness and testing. This is not a wilderness of discipline for disobedience like the children of Israel, though both are important to understand.

God is after a quality of obedience in a people that is based in the surrender to the divine love of Christ. This will define the people He had foreknowledge of. These are His friends who have understanding of the reality of the cross and the resurrection, by experiencing it in their own life.

The cross and resurrection can be confusing to an immature Christian who rides the current trends of the church and calls it a deep walk with the Lord. Those who have a deep and mature walk are not dependant on conferences, books, television shows, radio programs, or even their local churches, these are just supplements, if anything, to a very deep and personal faith.

Many who God has been maturing can't find any joy in the establishment of the church right now because the western church appeals and teaches towards the new believer and the novice. God's intention is to gather His remnant, and not only save them, but take them deeper into His heart. This is not the focus of many churches, but it is the focus of the Kingdom. God wants mature lovers. He wants those who eat the meat, the Hebrews 5:14 solid food of His nature.

"I Am Calling The Deep Deeper"

I heard the internal, audible voice of the Lord last year, and He said, "I am taking the deep deeper." I had an understanding that He is about to take those who have a relationship and depth in His heart to a whole new level of depth. "And we who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." (2 Corinthians 3:18)

The mature of the church are getting their next instalment of transformation which leads to the next increase of glory. We get to go from glory to glory. If we stay in one glory it means we don't have the evidence of Christ increasing in His church.

In 2 Corinthians 2 Paul tells us that the Holy Spirit is searching the depth of God and brings that depth into our very nature. He has to first prepare us to sustain what He brings. That is why He is putting us in the furnace--for firing--a beautiful preparation when understood.

The Baptism Of Fire

It's no small thing that we are at the anniversary of the Azusa Street Revival where the baptism of the Spirit was reintroduced. I believe we are at another divine juncture in history. It's a time when those who have been fired in the furnace of God's heart are about to be baptized by that very fire. It is also when they are infused with everything they need from heaven to enter into their destiny for the greater works on and in their lives.

I believe these are commissioning years for many. People who have lived in obscurity for a time will start to be released into more anointing because they have been gaining a place of authority that is dependant on a relationship to eternity.

I remember our high school tennis coach telling us it was the only sport that you could never get better in unless you played someone significantly better than yourself. This is reflected in Kingdom growth. God has created a dependency on unity. Some of the highest realms we can experience on this side of the eternity of His glory comes through the generations mingling their anointing so that we can all advance in love. This is why one age group is not more important than another in the Kingdom. If we continue to feed off the milk and never graduate to solid food, we will stunt our growth.

Now, back to my story about the pastor that I started this article with. As we spoke, I could see a man who was not satisfied with what was currently being called anointed in the church. He was jaded, not against God. He was jaded against the lesser forms of the ways in which spiritual gifts had been being championed in his region, as well as, by the lack of those who will pay a price for love. It was a privilege as I spoke with him because the wisdom that was in his pursuit with God was so obvious.

As we conversed, I realized that hidden in this man was the Spirit of Truth, and that he is not settling for success but was longing for the fullness of that which was promised to Him. He asked me, "How many of the greater works have you seen performed in or through your own life that you have longed to see?" By greater works he was speaking of the actual manifestation of the promise of Jesus that had been entrusted to be revealed through his life. I had to agree that I was not satisfied with my own answer.

He responded, "I am longing for the greater works of the Kingdom that only come from Heaven, and I am longing for the day when I am ready for the Lord to do these through me. Until then, I steward faithfully what He has given me. I get discouraged, but I don't live in discouragement."

I loved his answer because I to am longing to see the greater works which is not just miraculous power of arms growing back where there were no arms. Greater works are also not just miraculous food provisions in places where there is no food. It's not just speaking in tongues of men and angels. These are a by-product of the greater works. The greater works are lives that have fully embraced the divine nature of Christ and can manifest His nature on the earth. Lives that live in agreement to the Father's plan, a full manifestation of His Son-ship on the earth.

This is what Romans 8:22-24 talks about, that all creation is groaning for this manifestation of love. If you listen deeply enough when you look at the state of the church right now, you will hear these very same groans from those who have any depth or maturity.

We Are Almost There

I believe that our generation is about to walk into this place of being baptized by the Spirit AND by fire, so that we can enter into the fullness. Paul prayed that the Ephesians would enter into the fullness of God's love in Ephesians 3:19, and I believe that they did for a season. What happens when a generation, who is called to see the return of Jesus, enters into the fullness of not just the revelation but the cooperation with eternity as mature vessels of honour? This is why we are being prepared, and this is why we are being baptized by fire.

Shawn Bolz

The Phoenix Vision
Sian Gibb, Wales, 1st. October 2006

I could see a (very) large flat what looked like dark stone. On top there were things like twigs and wood of all sorts of shapes and sizes. There was what looked like the dying embers of a fire - you know when they glow a deep, deep red but there are no flames - well, that sort of colour.

All of a sudden a breeze swept across the embers and they instantly flared into full flame. The flames were strong colours of yellow and orange and red with touched of blue and green. They rose high in to the sky. Then I saw something that made me physically gasp as it was such a powerful image. I could see in the flames the appearance of the phoenix!

It was huge and it rose in amongst the flames on the stone. Its colours were brilliant and yet seemed fluid. Its plumage was the same as the colours I had seen: green, blue, yellow and red. The wings were in that position that you see the eagle as it raises itself up from the water - wings up straight ready to beat down upon the air to push itself upwards.

The bird stayed within the flames and as I watched, the scene seemed to change so that the bird and the stone were above the land of Wales. The wings of the bird were so big that they seemed to stretch all over the land.

Then I looked more closely at the stone and began to realise that it was black and I once I had realised that, it seemed as though the bird and the stone began to sink into the land of Wales. Soon I began to realise what it meant. The land of Wales has a great deal of coal under the surface and there once were many coal mines here. Coal used to be used primarily for burning in fires before it was used for other things as well.

Interpretation

I believe it to be a picture of Wales and what is happening at the moment. We - the church/Christians - have become as embers. We're alive but not on fire. There are many of us all in a heap and that has helped us to keep going through these tough years: we have had company!!

However, God is now blowing upon us with the breath of His Spirit and we are coming to the point of beginning to burn again. From the embers and ashes of the last number of years a new creature is arising which is vibrant, powerful and very much alive.

The coal is significant as I think that our heritage in Wales as Christians is very old and has been almost underground for many years but it was there that we began to be formed in to an extremely combustible fuel which would burn fiercely when breathed upon by the Spirit of God. The flames rose from under the land and are fuelled by all that has happened underground - our past has squashed us and crushed us. But in that process we have been squashed together and have begun to be parts of each other - where one stops and another begins is becoming difficult to tell as Christians begin working together, regardless of what chapel they attend. Something greater than local loyalties has begun.

The other thing that surprised me was that at one point at the height of the bird's ascent in the flames that it cried out! I didn't know that a phoenix did that! It was a piercing cry that once heard, it could not be forgotten - it seemed to enter in to the hearers' deepest parts and stay there.

That I believe was the cry of the Christians in Wales - declaring, "We have awoken and we are alive and we are many!"

I believe the Phoenix is a prophetic symbol of the wild fire coming out of this Nation. Looking at the dictionary definition of the word it means

• to rise from the ashes in the freshness of youth and live through another cycle of years: often an emblem of immortality or of reborn idealism or hope
• a person or thing of peerless beauty or excellence
• a person or thing that has become renewed or restored after suffering calamity or apparent annihilation

Wow! God is restoring and renewing us after suffering calamity. There is a freshness of youth and hope and life infusing our veins. What the Lord is doing is something of beauty and excellence! Beauty for ashes!

Let the Phoenix rise!

Blessings, Emerge