By Chad Taylor
Consuming Fire Ministries
Email: info@consumingfire.com
I Saw a Fuse Being Lit
As I watched a video of a series of outreaches in Southern California, I saw a fuse that was burning intensely. A great fire had been kindled and the fuse of historic revival was ignited. I saw a fuse that began to burn in a divine route, and a divine course was strategically positioned and certain cities were in the direct line of fire of this "Road of Revival."
This fuse was rolled into a tight bundle and it was clear where it began: Anaheim, California. A city of over 300,000, it by no means is the largest in this region, but its location is a hub of activity that accommodated people from around the world. Like a Jerusalem in the Bible it is an epicenter – the ebb and tide of millions, and a great fuse of revival is being lit.
As the fuse began to burn brightly and become luminescent, and to my surprise, it went out in two entirely different directions – north and south. It weaved its way into city after city like a scarlet thread of God's grace and power. It burned brilliantly and it illuminated and enlightened people to the knowledge of God everywhere it burned.
A Great Stirring in the Hearts of People
Anaheim was founded in 1857 by wine makers and grape farmers. From this historic hub will now come a great harvest of fruit that will impact and heal the nations of the world. All of its history paled in comparison to the intent that God has now for her future.
I saw trees or righteousness bursting through the fallow ground of old systems and methods and springing on the scene with witty inventions and groundbreaking ideas for outreach, charity and missions. It was certainly a renaissance of revival as the Gospel according to Jesus in Luke 4:18 took center stage:
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised."
I saw this brightly lit fuse burn into Fullerton, Long Beach, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Santa Ana and a myriad of other cities nearby. The fire of revival – a great stirring in the hearts of people for the things of God – burned in their hearts. It was like one great outreach or crusade as every city was busy with its poor, lost and unreached. The beaches were filled with baptism.
This fuse continued to burn intent to reach its southern border. It collided with Mission Viejo, San Clemente and Oceanside as it burned down the I-5 corridor into San Diego. Everything was burning with a single purpose and focus as churches of all sizes, denominations and backgrounds gathered in the streets, parks, beaches and stadiums in a crescendo of worship and outreach. The sky was red and was lowering as the Spirit of God filled the horizon.
The universities and colleges became "powder kegs" and exploded under the heat of God's fire. It was like something torn out of a history book when great orators and theologians could be heard on the universities such as C.S. Lewis and D.L. Moody – yet now they are young and unorthodox and their approach is radical and fresh. Youth everywhere were preaching Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
Book-ends of Revival From California to Asia
The other end of the fuse burned northward through Cypress, Signal Hill, Torrance, Hawthorne, Downey, Maywood into East Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and greater Los Angeles. The streets were on fire! Like a lava flow from an exploding volcano it burned everything in its path. It was bright, brilliant and breathtaking.
This fuse burned and impossible to extinguish as it had been in the past. Los Angeles and San Diego were two great book-ends of revival as it spread like an inferno around the world. Asia was on a direct line of fire as great shafts of fire shot out hitting all of Asia and the East. It was like a firework finale as sparks and streaking light like lightening lit up the foreign horizon with revival from Southern California. Its destiny was intact.
City after city looked like glowing embers of fiery light as I looked down from an aerial view. I saw open graves like Lazarus as ministries that seemed no longer relevant or remembered suddenly rushed on the scene and their first love reignited as they did the first works God had originally imparted to them. Many were bikers, former gang members, rough and ruddy like David in the Bible, but their hearts melted in the hearth of God's fiery love. Everywhere this fire burned as Southern California was consumed with the Fire of God.
"I came to set fire to the earth, and I wish it were already on fire!"—Luke 12:49
