Todd Bentley for Portland

October 19, 2000: There is not just going to be a healing revival, there is not just going to be a release of healings and miracles, there isn't just going to be a release of the healing revival within the city of Portland; but I see that there's going to be a release of the supernatural, there's going to be a release of visitations of angels, there's going to be a release of signs and wonders that are going to happen in the heavens and in the earth of the city. Its not just going to be laying hands on the sick seeing the sick healed, it's not just going to be a healing revival ...

I'm just thinking right now of John G. Lake on the top of Mt. Tabor and that even as the angel of the Lord came down and visited him .... what God gave to him through the angel of the Lord about what was going to happen in Portland ... it shall be, but I'm telling you there are going to be visitations just like John G. Lake had on top of Mt Tabor that's what I mean when I say there is going to be an outpouring of the supernatural and not just a healing revival I'm talking visions and revelations of the Lord. I'm talking angelic experiences, there's going to be an increased awareness of spiritual activity.

I see it right over the city and as I was sitting in the chair tonight I was just up over the city of Portland and I saw a cloud, I saw a storm cloud come in and it stopped. It became stationary over the city; it wasn't moving, it wasn't a storm front moving, it became a singular storm cloud like Elijah saw come up out of the water the size of a mans fist. It was a cloud like that, a singular cloud, it set up over the city of Portland and it was like, it was an electric cloud - there was an electric current flowing out of the cloud and the lightnings and the thunderings of God were released into the atmosphere of the whole city of Portland.

Something that God spoke to me yesterday as I was preparing waiting on the Lord for what I was to deliver and what I preached last night ... and what God showed me was this, He reminded me of Maria Woodworth-Etter and how the spirit of God would come in unusual ways and people would be struck down, they would go into trances and they would go into visions of God. That's something that God is about to release in the church, that's something that God is about to release in this place, that's something about what God is going to release right in this city - stuff like the visitation of God with Maria Woodworth-Etter.

As we were driving to the service tonight I was in the car with Les and Clif and all of a sudden just in the car we were fellowshipping and I went into a vision and in this vision I was standing on the edge of a cave in the side of a mountain. In the back of the cave at the end of the cave along side of the back wall it was like a storehouse, the storehouse of heaven, and there were treasures and they were the treasures of the kingdom of heaven and there were pearls and rubies and diamonds and I just saw, once again I just saw the treasure of the Lord inside of this cave and I was standing at the edge of this cave looking out over the face of the mountain all of a sudden the Holy Spirit reminded me about Elijah and the victory of Elijah on top of Mt Carmel and then because of the fear and because of the discouragement that set in because of what Jezebel had released, the onslaught of jezebel against Elijah. Elijah became afraid and Elijah became discouraged, he wanted to lay down his mantle and give up on ministry and he withdrew into the cave and it was in the cave that the word of the Lord came unto Elijah and the word of the Lord was that he was to anoint Elisha as prophet within his place and I believe that the significance of that vision is this, people are about to stumble upon treasure, there is a bout to be release of the spirit of wisdom and knowledge and revelation in Jesus. People are about to stumble on to the hidden truths of the kingdom of heaven, they're about to stumble onto things that eyes have desired to see but they haven't seen, things that ears have desired to hear but they haven't heard; people are about to stumble onto the hidden truths and mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.

Even as it was in the cave, the word of the Lord was, that there was a fresh oil and that there was a fresh commission that was being released for Elisha and I believe that this is the day that those that have been in fear and those that have been in discouragement and those that have once walked in the treasures and revelation knowledge of the kingdom of heaven, those that have once walked in the supernatural and in the power of God, those who once walked in ministry, there are even ones in this room and your discouraged, fear, fear is set within your heart because of the onslaught of the spirit of Jezebel and the control that has come against you and come against your ministry.

The spirit of Jezebel has operated within the city of Portland, but that spirit, the spirit of Jezebel right over the city is being rendered powerless in the name of jesus and there is going to be a fresh commission, new ministries are going to spring up ... that's what I'm seeing, I seeing a new breed, new ministries fresh oil, fresh commissions - Elisha's Elishas Elishas, being raised up all over the city and its going to be more than a healing revival its going to be more than the sick being healed, its going to be angels showing up just like with John G Lake on Mt Tabor, its going to be the supernatural, its going to be the visions and revelations of the Lord, its going to be angels, its going to be the hearing of the sounds of heaven, its going to be the manifestations of signs and wonders within the earth; but something is happening in the atmosphere of the whole city and believe that what's happening is God is releasing a fresh oil of commission; there is a new breed of Elisha's that God is going to raise up all over Portland.

Todd Bentley on Oct. 19, 2000 in Portland, Oregon at Shekinah Christian Ministries.
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