Britain in Revival - Jean Darnall's Vision - early 1970's

 

Jean Darnall's vision is widely known about and has been an encouragement to many people in praying for Scotland. 

Here are two accounts that she gave at different times describing that vision.

 

'Suddenly a vision appeared within my mind.  It had come twice before.  I saw the British Isles glistening like a clump of jade in the grey seas surrounding them.  Looking down I saw Scotland, England, Wales, and to the north-west, Ireland.  The treetops upon the hills and the clustered clouds hid the people.  Suddenly small flickering fires appeared.  They were scattered over the isles.  I came closer to the land.  The light was fire light.  These were fires burning from the top of Scotland to Land's End on the tip of Cornwall.  Lightning streaked downwards from the sky above me.  I saw it touch down with flashing swiftness, exploding each of the fires into streams of light.  Like lava they burned their fiery path downward from the top of Scotland to Land's End.  The waters did not stop this, but the fires spread across the seas to Ireland and to Europe.

 

"Lord, this is the third time you've shown me this vision during prayer.  Could you give me the meaning of it?" I asked, deeply moved by the Holy Spirit.  He revealed to me that the small fires were groups of earnest, hungry people who were being drawn together by the Holy Spirit to study their Bibles and to pray for a visitation of the Holy Spirit.  The words, 'pockets of power' were impressed upon my mind.  "I'm empowering them by my Holy Spirit and I'm teaching them by my Spirit about my gifts.  They are being led by my Spirit to repentance, reconciliation and a deeper relationship with the body of Christ.  These people are meeting in homes and churches – I'm not leading them out of their relationships in the home and in the church, but into a deeper involvement in both.  They are to bring renewal, new life, in preparation for what is to come."

 

"What is to come, Lord?", I asked, wondering why he should show this to me.

"I will penetrate the darkness with a visitation of my power.  With lightening swiftness I will release the power of my Spirit through a renewed people who have learned to be led of the Spirit.  They will explode with a swiftness that will touch every part of the society of Britain.  I am strategically placing them to touch farms, villages, towns and cities.  No one will be without a witness, whether they be children in schools, farmers in the fields, workers in the factories and docks, students in the universities and colleges, the media, the press, the arts or government.  All will be profoundly moved and those who are changed by my power will alter the destiny of the nation."

 

"And the streams of fire into Europe, Lord?"  My mind seemed to see an army of all types of people moving into the continent with a compassionate ministry.  This ministry was not mass meetings, led by powerful personalities, preaching to spectators, but participating, caring communities involved with one another at grass roots level, sharing the love of God everywhere.

 

'I had a vision that re-occurred three times – an identical vision – I saw the British Isles – and I was looking down from above, like a bird's eye view, I could see it all covered with kind of a greenish mist.  Then lights began to appear from the top of Scotland, right down through the whole of Scotland, down across the border into the midlands, down across the south – and in some of those places lights began to multiply and get brighter and brighter.  And I saw especially a bright strip right across between Glasgow and Edinburgh – they seemed to merge – but there were lights up here in the Highlands as well – of course I didn't know it was the Highlands – I didn't known much about the geography of the land – but I could see it so clearly.

And then lightning came down and struck those brighter spots, and there were like explosions of fire and rivers of fire began to flow out of those places where the lights had been, and flowed right down to the Channel, and some of them flowed right across the Channel (not all, but some of those rivers – right across the the Channel) and spread out on the continent.  I must say too that first I saw these just as lights then the Lord brought me closer to them and they were fires.

 

And I was waiting on the Lord and he said to me,

"I am lighting the fires."

God is the fire-lighter.

"I am lighting the fires," he said "there are fires of renewal.  I am moving in to my people – people that are in the churches and outside the churches.  I will be making them intensely hungry for New Testament Christianity.  They'll start looking in the book of Acts and say, "Where is this church with miracles and power and witness?", and he said, "I'll make them hungry, and I'll fill them with my Spirit, and I'll start teaching them how to live a life in the Spirit.  I'll start equipping them with gifts of the Spirit – and preparing them for a greater work that I am going to do in Britain."

 

And I asked about the lightning then, and he said.

"The lightning is when in my sovereign grace, a second work that I will do following the renewal that will be a spiritual awakening when I will awaken the conscience of the nation to have a felt need of me – a felt need of forgiveness and salvation."

 

Then I said, "The rivers of fire?"

And he said, "These are people – the people I've been filling, the people I've been training.  I'm going to move them all around.  I'm going to move people from the south to the north and from the north to the south, from the east to the west, and I'm going to strategically place them, so that when this explosion comes, the people movement will start flowing.  And they won't be great evangelists or great names, but they will be a people witnessing – at their jobs, on the campuses, in the media, in the government – wherever I have placed them, their witness will be released, and I will accompany it with signs following, with healings and miracles."

 

And I said, "What about the rivers going over to Europe?"

And he said, "These are communicators." - (That was a new word for me for ministry.)

And he said, "They will be communicators who will flow out of this awakening, out of this renewal in Britain – media people that I'll gift with drama and music, broadcasting, TV and so forth – light and sound – I will call them this because I'm going to release my Word and my message to the continent of Europe through the media – not through the church but through the media – then they'll come into the church.

But in Britain it will be in the church then out to the media, and to the people."

 

That was the vision.'