Greetings beloved! I hope you’re doing amazing!
On Monday May 19th, I left the 941 for the Jacksonville area, largely in the hopes that I would gain some peace and clarity about some big decisions I’m needing to make about my practice. I was also hoping to have a little bit of “honeymoon time” with Jesus, which I was really looking forward to. I had no idea that the trip would end up being as life changing as it was.
As you can see from the picture above, the specific place that I was staying was a little fishing village that was established in 1562 by the first protestant Christians that came to America. They were called the Huguenots, and they came to this area to seek the freedom to worship Jesus, 58 years before the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth. They were also the ones who offered up the first true worship and prayer in our nation, and they also established other “firsts” like those listed on this historical marker in Mayport.
As you’d expect, after I checked in to my Air B and B, the first place I went to was the beach where they had their first worship service. It’s now called Huguenot Memorial Park.
Here’s the historical marker explaining what happened there:
What an experience to be there and to worship on the same beach!
After about an hour, the park was going to close, so I made my way back to my Air B and B. On the way back, I stopped at the nearest Publix to buy groceries, and I saw something on the receipt that blew my mind.
Never in my life have I ever met anyone with my same last name who wsasn’t related to me. The fact that the store manager of the closest publix to the place where the first service in America was held was such a sign that I was in the right place.
When I got back to the room, I also discovered that the day before I got there, a HUGE baptism took place just a few miles from where I was staying. And it even made the local news!
Can you imagine seeing this on your local news!!?
On Tuesday, Fort Caroline was closed, so I decided to take a little detour up north to another place of historical significance- the place where John Wesley landed and preached his first sermon in America. It’s on Cockspur Island Georgia, about 140 miles north of Jacksonville.
Maybe you’ve heard me share this before but on Christmas Day 2020, I was at Siesta Beach having outreach (because my parents were sick with COVID), and a female pastor from South Korea came up to me and prophesied that God was going to release upon me a mantle like that of John Wesley. She said that just as He did with John Wesley, that God would send me to different cities to minister and that would use me to raise up teams of evangelists.
This word became the seed to me branching out from the 941 to go to other cities, and since then, we’ve been on nearly 20 mission trips and preached the gospel all over the state…while also inspiring others along the way to do the same thing. Clearly the word has already begun to come to pass.
I felt like there was something more for me to get while I was in this spot though, so I came with great expectation. Little did I know that the Lord would show me what He had for me there through the parable of the other historical event that happened on the island.
Rewind back to the mid 1800’s. In America, tensions over slavery and slave ownership are bubbling up and leading to some states wanting to secede from the Union so they can maintain the right to own people as property. In 1861, Georgia (who was a slave state) sent their militia out to capture a Fort on Cockspur Island that they knew they needed to maintain control of in order to ensure that they could resupply their troops with resources. It is called Fort Pulaski, and it was the Fort that was the watchtower for those guarding the VERY important Savannah River trading port- an essential trading port for the confederate army. This is the inside of the Fort:
After the confederates seized control of the Fort, they were now able to allow ships in the restock their supplies through the Savannah Port so they had a significant advantage over the Union, They also believed they were invincible to attack because of the distance between Cockspur Island, and the closest land masses where the Union army could mount an attack- McQueens Island and Tybee Island. You can see the layout of the area below:
At the time, Cannons where the main weapon used against Forts, and they only had a range of about 700-1000 yards. The distance between these islands and the Fort was about 1.5 miles- FAR further than a cannon ball could travel.
Given this, the confederates believed there was no way that the Fort could be taken down. However, they did not know that the Union had been working on new weapons technology for the past 4 years and were going to unveil it in this battle.
This 5-minute video shows it good detail what happened that day:
After learning all of this, I really felt like the Lord was saying that there was a prophetic message connected to these two things- John Wesley’s ministry and the siege of Fort Pulaski. I believe the message is this-
“I am releasing upon my sons and daughter’s methods and strategies to tear down spiritual fortresses. They will be like upgraded weapons, able to even bring down the strongholds that the enemy thinks are impenetrable”
Then He gave me 2 Corinthians 10:4:
“for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.”
What makes this even more interesting is that right as I arrived on Cockspur Island, I read a text from my Carolyn who was in Washington DC at David’s Tent. She went up there for “Florida week” which just happened to start the day before. She said this:
On top of that, about an hour later I got a message from my friend Nancy, who is a prayer leader with Prayer Link, a statewide network of intercessors over the state of Florida. She said that the leader of Prayer Link was hosting a zoom meeting the night before and said that she heard from the Lord that new strategies were being released to dismantle the drum circle.
You can hear that message here- https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qgo3sqlmspvaq23ysao22/Audio-Message.m4a?rlkey=6thtxszvg8rnj36lbijztgw7x&st=l0dplbp0&dl=0
Talk about being mind blown! And all this happened on my salvation birthday too, which also happened to be 2/22 on the Hebrew calendar.
Then, I left Cockspur Island, and I went back to the Air B and B, and as soon as I got back, I saw a notification that Ken Malone- an apostolic leader over the state of Florida (who ministers at The Front from time to time) had released this video earlier in the day:
“Releasing the Huguenot Outpouring”
The message revolves around a prophetic word given by his friend Chuck Pierce back in March. Chuck then spoke about it at a conference he did with Ken the previous weekend, so Ken released this word that day (5/20) on his livestream. What are the odds that this would happen while I was in the Huguenot’s old neighborhood!
Now I was starting to realize that this new level of spiritual authority in warfare was also connected the Huguenots mantle, which God has already announced through His prophets that He was releasing.
Now I was REALLY fired up. The Lord was making it abundantly clear that I was up there to pick up something profound in the Spirit that somehow connected to the Huguenots, spiritual warfare, upgraded weapons and the drum circle. Wild!
The next day, I went to Fort Caroline, and I worshipped on the grounds where many of our brothers were martyred.
When I was done, I saw this sign and the Lord gave me a pretty intense vision of what it must have been like for them to be attacked in killed so viciously for their faith:
The next day, I went to the Matanzas River, where the rest of the Huguenots (including their leader) were killed just weeks after the attack on Fort Caroline.
Then, I followed the Word of the Prophets, and I got baptized in the Matanzas River
The night before I went to the River, while doing some research on the Huguenots, I discovered that right before Jean Ribault was executed, he sang Psalm 132, which is the Psalm about the covenant that David made with the Lord to build Him a house.
Remember, O Lord, on David’s behalf,
All his affliction;
2 How he swore to the Lord
And vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,
3 “Surely I will not [a]enter my house,
Nor [b]lie on my bed;
4 I will not give sleep to my eyes
Or slumber to my eyelids,
5 Until I find a place for the Lord,
[c]A dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
6 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah,
We found it in the field of [d]Jaar.
7 Let us go into His [e]dwelling place;
Let us worship at His footstool.
8 Arise, O Lord, to Your resting place,
You and the ark of Your strength.
9 Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness,
And let Your godly ones sing for joy.
10 For the sake of David Your servant,
Do not turn away the face of Your anointed.
11 The Lord has sworn to David
A truth from which He will not turn back:
“Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne.
12 “If your sons will keep My covenant
And My testimony which I will teach them,
Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever.”
13 For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His habitation.
14 “This is My resting place forever;
Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
15 “I will abundantly bless her provision;
I will satisfy her needy with bread.
16 “Her priests also I will clothe with salvation,
And her godly ones will sing aloud for joy.
17 “There I will cause the horn of David to spring forth;
I have prepared a lamp for Mine anointed.
18 “His enemies I will clothe with shame,
But upon himself his crown shall shine.”
Once I discovered this, I realized that this was God’s plan for our nation all along- to be one GIANT Tabernacle of His Presence. That was the fundamental purpose of us having the freedom to worship, gather and speak- to release Him freely through the land. It also make is clearer why God made sure to put to align the 13 stars (representing the original 13 colonies) into a Star of David on our original seal:
After I got back, I was invited onto my friend Josh’s podcast to do a deep dive into the revelations and prophetic words I received during the trip. I encourage you to take a listen to it.
Exciting times! Talk to you again soon!
CV