The church has been in a period of renewal. Multitudes have been healed and restored. Vision and faith have been rising steadily over the last few years. This has been a wonderful time, but it is merely a preparation for what is coming. We are now about to cross the bridge from renewal to revival.

I am defining renewal as that which works to heal and awaken the church, and revival as that which results in the salvation of the lost and the empowering of believers to challenge the spiritual darkness of the times.

Recently in a vision I saw this transition period between renewal and revival as a bridge between two fields. The first field progressed from what looked like fallow ground, overgrown with weeds and littered with debris, to land that was plowed and sown. I knew that this field represented the work of renewal.

At the end of this field there was a bridge being constructed. It was being built with different size stones, from very large ones to those that were very small. There were names written on each stone that represented a different movement, ministry, or in some cases individual people. This bridge was built without sides, which seemed to make it a little precarious to cross, but this also enabled it to easily be widened to accommodate more traffic, which was constantly being done.

The stones on this bridge were all different, but they fit together like interlocking pieces to a puzzle. This made the entire bridge stronger. There were undergirding pillars for this bridge that were made out of what appeared to be pure light. However, it was a light that was also material, or had substance. Each pillar had a biblical truth, a fruit, or a gift of the Holy Spirit written on it. I knew that these pillars were strong enough to hold any weight. In fact, in a strange way it seemed as if this bridge was holding up the earth, not the other way around.

The workmen were a diverse group of people, from children to the elderly, men and women, and seemingly all races. There were businessmen and women working right next to those who looked like they were homeless. I recognized artists, musicians, athletes, news correspondents, soldiers and policemen, all of which had been transformed into apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, administrators, those with gifts of helps and other ministries. They seemed to fit perfectly with the diversity of the stones they were working with.

As they were constructing the bridge, they were under constant attack from flies, stones that were being thrown at them from every direction, and dark clouds that I recognized as spirits of depression. Regardless of the attacks, these workmen never stopped their work. In fact, they hardly paid any attention to the attacks. When one of the workers was severely wounded, he or she would be carried over the bridge into the field. Then one of the workers from the field would take their place on the bridge.

The field on the other side of the bridge was composed of plants that were just

beginning to sprout as well as those with an abundance of fruit that was ripe for harvest, all mixed together. Some of this field was very well tended, with the plants in straight rows and with almost no weeds. Other parts were so overgrown with weeds and other plants that it almost looked impenetrable. Yet, the abundance and quality of the fruit was extraordinary. One thing that stood out to me as I looked at this field was that I recognized only a few of the many different types of fruit that were growing.

Those who had been wounded while working on the bridge were quickly healed as they ate some of the ripened fruit from this field. However, they did not return to the bridge but would begin tending the field. Where the faces of those working on the bridge were filled with determination and a certain urgency, the faces of those working in the field seemed more relaxed, even though the fruit was ripening faster than they could gather it. This was not the kind of relaxed attitude that comes from the peace of the Lord, but rather seemed to stem from an unholy casualness about what they were doing.

There was also very poor coordination between those who were picking the fruit and those who were carrying it to the place where it was cleaned and packaged. Then I noticed that there did not even seem to be good coordination among the pickers, with all of them seemingly just wandering about working where they wanted to. Then I noticed the faces of those who were cleaning and packaging the fruit. They seemed overly harried, and were therefore dropping and losing more of the fruit than they were getting into the packages.

I could see bottlenecks everywhere that were devastating to the efficiency of the entire operation. Everyone just seemed to be doing their own thing with no supervisors anywhere. It was in this much chaos, and I knew that the harvesting was just beginning. More laborers were badly needed for the abundance of the harvest, but I knew that the situation would only get worse if there were no supervisors. One of the workers on the bridge then said to me, "You must start praying for the apostles to come. We must have apostles." It then seemed as if every worker on the bridge turned to acknowledge the importance of this. (At this time I felt that I was given this as one of my primary burdens for prayer.)

Then the same kinds of attacks that came upon the workers on the bridge came upon the workers in the field. Here the flies did not just harass the workers, but they also started to devour the fruit. Then stones would come in waves, knocking some of the fruit from the plants, and wounding some of the workers. I knew that the flies were lies, and the stones were false witnesses and accusations. Some of the workers kept working during these attacks, but most would stop, and some would even leave the field. Finally, some of those who had crossed the bridge formed teams to protect parts of the field. Workers then returned to those parts of the field. Some would try to gather the fruit that had been knocked from the plants by the stones, but it would rot very fast and most of it was lost.

Those who crossed the bridge immediately started harvesting the fruit. The ripe fruit was put into a great assortment of different types and sizes of baskets. Some began

to harvest fruit that was not yet ripe simply because they did not recognize the fruit, and therefore did not know if it was ripe or not. This became a problem for a time, and created arguments between the harvesters. Finally a supervisor did appear and his first directive was for the laborers to only harvest the fruit that they recognized. This brought peace, and the resolve and confidence of the harvesters seemed to grow dramatically just because there was now someone who could supervise.

Even though multitudes began crossing the bridge, it did not seem that there were nearly enough workers to keep up with the fruit that was becoming ripe. The work of widening the bridge so that more people could cross was another urgent task that was being emphasized to me.

At the end my whole attention was on the bridge. I was given time to study many of the stones in it. As I looked at a stone, I would start to know things about it, or the movement or ministry that it represented. This knowledge always related to the strengths and weaknesses of the movement or ministry. I then realized that the harvesters were all from these different movements and ministries represented by the stones in this bridge. The following is what I saw for a few of them.

Prayer Movements

Interlocking prayer movements spanned the bridge from side to side and all the way across. These were the stones that touched the earth on both sides. Whenever a worker could not find a piece to fit, he or she would look among the prayer movements and always find one. Without question, not only were these the most numerous, and prominent, but they also tied the entire bridge together. Their strength was their flexibility, being able to fit almost anywhere. Their weakness was the same as their strength. They were so flexible and easily shaped that the footprints of those crossing the bridge could be impressed in them, causing them to bend out of shape. This enabled them to be easily reshaped, but this was having to be done continually by the workers, which cost a lot of time.

I was told that the soul of these movements was Seoul. From Seoul a mushroom cloud arose and spread spiritual radiation over the entire earth. This radiation was an energy that pierced the flesh of man, and there was no where to hide from it. This somehow softened and prepared all flesh for the gospel. London Bridge

So many of the workers on this bridge were from London that it became known as "London Bridge." Lon-don once ruled an empire that spanned every continent to the point where it was said that "the sun never sets on the British Empire." In a way, this bridge between renewal and revival will ultimately span the earth, becoming a bridge between people, cultures and nations. What the British did in the natural was a foreshadowing of the building of this bridge which the messengers of the Lord will cross to carry the gospel of the kingdom. This is also why one of the main recipients of the re-newal movements was the British, including the British Commonwealth nations. They are called to be the pri-mary builders of this bridge to revival. This was also one reason for the great Welsh Revival, and the blue-prints for this bridge can be found in Wales.

The fact that the British were so involved in the construction of this bridge caused many to trust in it. However, for others this was a reason not to trust it. This became such a problem that it began to cause a bottle-neck until German and Jewish builders joined them in this work. Then everyone seemed to trust the bridge and the bottleneck was opened.

Pensacola

The Brownsville Revival in Pensacola was a stone that many seemed to want to step on as they began to cross from the renewal side toward revival. It was a brown and red stone, which was not very attractive, but I felt that these colors represented a devotion to service, and to the cross. Its great strength was the willingness to serve and make sacrifices for the purposes of the Lord. Its main weakness came from this same willingness to make sacrifices, which enabled its people to be lured into making sacrifices that God had not called them to make. Because the enemy cannot stop them, he will try to push them too far. This stone was being stretched to the point where it could be easily broken. Even so, those who chose to step on it while crossing became some of the most confident, effective harvesters when they reached the revival field. Many laborers for the coming harvest will be getting their marching orders at Brownsville.

Also, as people came out of the first field their shoes were very muddy. They became cleaner as they progressed across the bridge because the mud rubbed off on the stones of the bridge. The shoes represented the message of the gospel that they carry. Because Pensacola was one of the first stones in the bridge, it was caked with mud from the shoes of those who were just starting to cross. Because of this, that stone needed constant cleaning in order to not become a stumbling block to those starting to cross the bridge. "Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life" (Proverbs 4:23).

The Span

There was a long span of stones in the middle of the bridge that represented specific cities across America. The one following Pensacola was Mobile, Alabama, then Baton Rouge, Dallas, Phoenix and Los Angeles. I felt that works were going to rise up in each of these cities that were crucial to this bridge, and that they would ulti-mately be linked closely together. These did not go all of the way across the bridge, but together they reached more than half way.

Then stones representing cities in the Pacific and Asia became prominent. Singapore, Sydney, and Hong Kong, and a number of cities in India, all stood out to me because they were colored like British flags. I believe that this represented British influence that in some way had prepared them for their destiny. (I later prayed about all of the British influence I saw on this bridge, and was reminded that the British were used to spread the English language and culture in preparation for what is coming, just as Alexander the Great helped spread the use of the Greek language in preparation for the spread-ing of the gospel in the first century.)

Solemn Assemblies

This movement among Baptists has a high purpose in preparing for the coming harvest. The strength of this stone was that it was made out of very strong elements. Its weakness was that it was so strong that it had a hard time bonding with the concrete and other stones on the bridge. Even though it was hard for the workers to use, it was worth it as it added greatly to the strength and size of the entire bridge.

The Dream Center

This is the nickname for the Los Angeles International Church, but it was the name on this stone, and I believe that this is its name in heaven. This stone was shaped like a triangle with its small point facing the beginning of the bridge, and it continued getting broader as it proceeded toward the other side. This stone reproduced other stones that were shaped like little anchors, which I knew represented hope. These were placed next to stones that were pale and weak, which gave them strength. Together I felt that these stones enabled the bridge to carry more weight.

Promise Keepers

The stone that represented Promise Keepers was very broad, which I felt represented its inclusiveness. However, this caused it to be dangerously thin in places. Even so, it was a very prominent part of the bridge, and because of this the enemy was hurling two large rocks at it, trying to hit the places where it was thin in order to shatter it. The large rocks being hurled at it were Jealousy and Division.

Women's Movements

I saw numerous stones that represented different women's movements. Many of these were very large. Some of these were prayer movements, which were shaped like arrowheads. Arrows shot from these stones would strike down the attacks thrown at the other movements, such as those coming at Promise Keepers. One common characteristic that these stones had was that they were hot. They all had the ability to absorb heat from the sun. This kept the entire bridge warm so that ice could not form on it. The heat from these stones also kept the people moving across the bridge. This was essential because many were wanting to stop on a certain stone, but they couldn't because their feet would begin to burn.

Other Movements

There were many other large stones that made up this bridge. Some of these were movements that I could recognize, but most I did not. This was because those do not exist yet, indicating to me that there are yet many new movements to come forth to be a part of this bridge between renewal and revival. There were many church associations, or fellowships of churches, which started banding together. When they did, their size grew and quickly began to widen the bridge.

Almost every spiritual advance in history has come from a movement. Movements are created by spiritual pioneers, but most pioneers eventually settle somewhere. These sometimes become denominations. Denominations may now have a place in

the purposes of God, occupying spiritual territory while pioneers continue to take more land. Even so, on this bridge I did not see denominations, though I did see some movements that were found in denominations.

I also saw a large pile of discarded stones of all sizes. These could not be used in the bridge for various reasons. Some were too brittle and would break too easily. Others were not "living stones" like those being used in the bridge.

I felt that some of these stones had died, and some had never been alive. Some had an exterior that looked strong and alive, but just below their thin, fragile, surface they were nothing but sand. Others had edges that were too sharp to work with. There were many denominations in this pile, along with a surprising number of movements and ministries.

Troubled Waters

The bridge was beautiful, even while it was under construction. It emanated life, peace, and great joy. However, the large river that it spanned was repulsive. It was composed of raw sewage, mixed occasionally with large streams of blood. It was such a torrent that it seemed as if the entire earth was discarding its waste into this river. I felt that it represented the times in which this bridge was being built. The greatest danger for the workers was to fall into the river, or to drop one of the stones into it.

Occasionally, great waves would come down the river that would seem to engulf the bridge. It stood because of the strength of its pillars, and was never really damaged. However, both the workers and the bridge had to be cleaned often. Some who were crossing the bridge stayed too close to the edge and were swept away by the surges. Each time a wave poured over the bridge it would carry away stones from the pile that could not be used on the bridge. Eventually the only stones that were left were those that were a part of the bridge.