From: Muriel Luedeman
Plowing Ground for Revival
Hello, Initiative and Unity Center Friends,
I present a vision to you for our next Neighborhood Transformation Event. This is NOT from me, but a move of God for His people. Praise HIM!!! for His call to prepare for REVIVAL for our city. Revival doesn't just happen to drop out of the sky upon people. It is a process. Every revival has come with conditions of fearful desperation, and people coming together to fast and pray and cry out for help. We don't know how really bad our dear city is, but I do believe we all are waking up to hear the clamor of the enemy's warfare. After recently receiving visions, Words from the Holy Spirit, and dreams from several sources, I feel directed to share these things with all of you, and call for greater action from volunteers and friends on behalf of our city. I pray your hearts will be touched by the Holy Spirit after reading the following.
In January, 2016, I had a dream where I saw people with Christian messages on their shirts, picking up trash along highly traveled roadways in Independence. I was made aware that the people driving through Independence, many of them strangers to our town, took great notice and interest in the activity, that God must be at work in this place, and they wanted to investigate what was going on, thinking Independence was a godly place to live. I started taking time to pick up litter along S. Main where I live. This practice made some new friends of my neighbors I didn't know - an added blessing I had not expected.
As the Independence Is Alive and Well Initiative developed its Neighborhood Transformation ministry in 2019, we scheduled clean up teams once a month to edge sidewalks and pick up litter. Then, in September, 2019, Brenda Van Fleet's vision of signs going up all over town declaring INDEPENDENCE IS THE CITY OF OUR GOD, was activated. This vision/initiative motivated me to create handmade signs for car windows. This spring, 2021, Hugh Caldwell made his own message, "THERE IS HOPE. TURN BACK TO JESUS" and went to the streets with it, standing at busy intersections holding his sign. The response to this one man's action was incredible! Horns honking, thumbs up, high fives, encouraging words, and people coming up, saying they had fallen away and were thinking about coming home to Jesus again. This gave me the idea that we should combine the Jesus signs and banners with our monthly litter clean up teams to demonstrate how much we care about our city and want to share Jesus with all we encounter.
This past Saturday, June 12th, we launched our first Jesus Sign/Litter Patrol at the intersection of Sterling Avenue and 40 Hwy. We anchored a large full color Jesus banner in front of QuikTrip and placed IIAW signs along the route we were cleaning. We had a team of a dozen LDS missionaries, working south on Sterling and east on 40 Hwy. As Hugh experienced with his sign ministry, people approached us to say they were encouraged and they loved the idea that the IIAW was an alliance of all Independence faiths, and Jesus and the Kingdom was the tie that binds us together.
Also, on June 12th at Shelley Lowery's two-hour prayer event for women, Gather Around the Table, at the Hilton Garden Inn, a vision was given by Katie Fetzer, the founder of 1018 Strategy. She saw the entire metro Kansas City, two state region, raised up as a whole and balancing on the point of a pyramid. Seeing it was tipping precariously, Katie cried out. "Oh God, don't let this city fall!" All at once, she saw ordinary people come up one by one and put their left shoulder under the edge of the city, and with their right arm raised, shouted continuously, "GOD IS GOOD; HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER!" As more and more people came up to do the same, the city stabilized. This was so POWERFUL to hear! I had no idea I would soon be motivated by this prophetic word to do a work for God. All it did at the time was remind me of 2Chronicles 20:21, and the words of the singers in King Jehoshapat's army as they led it into battle against a three nation combined enemy. "PRAISE THE LORD FOR HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER!" Shelley Lowery, of Blue Springs Assembly of God, herself, was given a word recently from the Lord to turn her heart toward home and center her prayers on Jackson County and particularly, Independence, that the Lord had a special plan and work for Independence.
Yesterday morning, June 15th, I was picking up the litter patrol Jesus signs at the Unity Center, and Mike Box, the center's admin. desk manager, and I started discussing mobilizing weekly teams of missionaries, 35 - 50 in number, and other volunteers to do litter patrol at several intersections in Independence. The Spirit was showing me how powerful this effort could be each time we go out, and it was as if He was saying, "One location once a month is not enough. This is just the beginning, You can do more than this. I WANT you to do more than this. If you do this, it will plow the ground to bring the revival to Independence, which you have been praying for." I called Hugh Caldwell in the afternoon about this movement of the Lord, and we prayed for more direction and blessing upon it.
Yesterday afternoon, Fayellen Ely, sent me a video by Karen Wheaton, a prophetic teacher who received a word from the Lord. The message was, "What I told you to do, DO IT NOW!" This word came with such power to me then, and again this morning, and all these words and visions from brothers and sisters I have shared with you, seem to press in upon me, that I must follow through.
This morning, more assurance and instruction came. "The beginning will be small, but it will grow, as the city sees your consistent, faithful effort at several intersections. God will cause more ministries to move into the city with their own efforts. Signs speaking REPENTANCE as well as LOVE will cause people to stop hesitating and surrender to Christ. People with ministry skills will come to the locations each Saturday to assist with confessions, intercession, praise, and encouragement."
Beginning this Saturday, we will answer this call of the Lord. Volunteers will meet at the Unity Center at 8:00am. Our plan is to prepare for 12 intersections with signs and litter bags: 1. 40 Hwy and 291, 2. 40 Hwy and Sterling, 3. Truman Road and 291, 4. 24 Hwy and 291, 5. 435 and 23rd Street, 6. 435 and Truman, 7. 40 Hwy and Noland, 8. 40 Hwy and Lees Summit 9. I-70 and 39th, 10. I-70 and 291. 11. 40 Hwy and Crysler Avenue, 12. 24 Hwy and Sterling. How many locations we actually work will depend on the number of volunteers we get.
There it is, my friends. Please make this effort a matter of prayer, even fasting. Consider participating and see you at the Unity Center.
The dates are Saturdays at the Unity Center parking lot. 8:00am to receive assignments. Working time: 1.5 hours.
May God be praised and blessed in all His ways!
Muriel Luedeman
IIAW Communications Secretary
mur620@ gmail.com
816-726-8425
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