Praying in the Four Winds of God for Revival

PRAYING IN THE FOUR WINDS OF GOD FOR REVIVALS

Let's look at the book of Zechariah 10: 1 Ask the Lord for rain in the time of the latter rain. The Lord will make flashing clouds. He will give them showers of rain, grass in the field for everyone. It tells us there precisely that when the time comes for the latter rain we are to ask. The word ask implies that we are asking and expecting God for a revival. We need to realize what we are asking for and what is involved in a revival.

So we need just another scripture from the book of Ezekiel 37:1 ff The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the midst of the valley. And it was full of bones. Then he caused me to pass by them all around. And behold there were many in the open valley and indeed they were very dry. And he said to me son of man can these bones live. So I answered O Lord God you know. Again he said to me prophesy to these bones and say to them O dry bones hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones surely I will cause breath to enter into you and you shall live. I will put sinus on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesize there was a noise. And suddenly a rattling and the bones came together bone to bone. Indeed as I look the sinus and the flesh came upon them and the skin covered them over but there was no breath in them. Then he said to me prophesy to the breath. Prophesy son of man and say to the breath. Thus says the Lord God come from the four winds O breath and breathe on these slain that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me and breath came into them. And they lived and stood upon their feet an exceedingly great army. Then he said to me. Son of man these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say our bones are dry. Our hope is lost and we ourselves are cut off. Therefore and said to them thus says the Lord God behold my people I will open your graves and cause you to come out from your graves and bring you into the land of Israel.

Notice in this passage here that when he prophesied in verse seven there was a rattling and the bones came together. And when he prophesied a second time, he specifically was asked in verse nine to say these words. Come from the four winds O breath and breathe on these slain that they may live. And it was then that the whole dry bones became a living army. We know this is dual prophecies. It speaks first about the nation of Israel. But it also speaks about the church of the Lord Jesus Christ as the army that He is raising. And the point we want to focus on verse nine is not just to prophesy but in verse nine he had to command and call forth the four winds of God.

In this message we want to see a little bit on what four winds of God signify. There are four winds mentioned in the bible. When the Holy Spirit moves in a revival there will be the four winds that blow. We are not talking about the natural wind. We are talking about the spiritual winds of God.

Noel Hayes has a book entitled The Winds of God. That book was published many years ago. When he was preaching in Robert Tilton church in Dallas, Texas, the Word of Faith Family church, suddenly what Noel Hayes was caught up into the heavens and he saw the four winds of God coming forth from the four corners of the earth. The four winds of God came together and it became a whirlwind. And that whirlwind dropped down on the planet earth. And where so ever it dropped down a revival break forth. That is how he wrote the book the winds of God.

But he did not go into the detailed analysis of what the winds of God were which we will go through here. The winds of God in the bible speak about the four spiritual winds: the North wind, the South wind, the East wind and the West wind. Each wind has significance. Let's start with the East wind, which is the most common wind. We realize that in the bible there are a lot of what I call dual prophecies. When it talk about the winds in the bible, there is an actual wind blowing from the geographical direction. But it also points to something spiritual. That's what we want to do. How do we know that? Because each time God call forth the natural wind from a certain direction it always causes the same thing. It always brought forth the same thing.

The East Wind

The East wind is known for bringing blight and famine. The East wind is known as a wind that brought forth judgment.

Genesis 41: 5- 7[Pharaoh] slept and dreamed a second time; and suddenly seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, plump and good. Then behold, seven thin heads, blighted by the east wind, sprang up after them. And the seven thin heads devoured the seven plump and full heads. So Pharaoh awoke, and indeed, it was a dream. The East wind is the wind that brings judgment. It is the wind that comes with great power and great force.

Let's see a little bit of this wind in the book of Exodus 10: 12-13 Then the Lord said to Moses. Stretch out your hands over the land of Egypt for the locusts that they may come upon the land. So Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt. And the Lord brought an East wind on the land all that day and all that night. And when it was morning the East wind brought the locusts. It's so consistent that you cannot miss it. Every time the East wind is mentioned there is some sort of judgment happening.

We also want to look at Exodus 14: 21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. And the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all than night and made that sea into dry land and the waters were divided. Notice it was the East wind. It was a wind of power and might. It's the East wind that parted the Red Sea. There is tremendous force and power in the East wind. We will not do any application yet. We will show in the bible what all the verses are on the wind. And then we will do a little bit of application.

The South Wind

Let's look at the South wind. Ps.78: 26-27 He caused the East wind to blow in the heavens and by His power he brought in the South wind. Now the East wind brought judgment but it says here he brings also the South wind. He also rained meat on them like the dust, Feathered fowl like the sand of the seas. The South wind brought provision. The South wind brought food provided for them.

We substantiate that with more scriptures. In Zechariah 9: 11-14 "As for you also, because of blood of your covenant, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. Even today I will declare that I will restore double to you. For I have bent Judah, My bow, fitted the bow with Ephraim and raised up your sons, O Zion against your sons, O Greece and make you like the sword of a mighty man." Notice that he says I will restore you double. He promised Zion provision; He is going to provide for them, bring abundance for their lives. That is not over yet. Then the Lord will be seen over them and his arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord God will blow the trumpet and go with whirlwinds from the south. Now the South wind is the wind of provision. That is the South wind it provides. And it is quite consistent in its bible usage.

We need to also look at Song of Solomon 4: 16 Awake, O north wind and come, O south. Blow upon my garden that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come to his garden and eat its pleasant fruits. Notice that the South wind together with the North wind symbolize pleasantness and provision. The South wind is the wind that provides is the move of the Holy Spirit in provision.

The North Wind

Let's look at the North wind. We have seen the East wind, the wind of judgment. The South wind is a wind of provision. Let's look at the North wind as you saw in the Song of Solomon 4: 16 that it has to do with pleasantness, spices, fragrant.

Now let's look at Proverbs 25: 23 The North wind brings forth rain. Why is it connected to provision? The North wind is important because the North wind brings the presence of God. In the Song of Solomon the North wind brought fragrance. The North wind brings the presence of the Lord.

Look at Ezekiel 1: 4 Then I look and behold a whirlwind was coming out of the north. Why not south, why not east, why not west? Because the North wind always symbolizes the presence of the Lord. The Lord comes from the north. A great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself. And brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of ember out of the midst of fire. The North wind brings the presence of God.

The West Wind

Finally the book of Exodus 10: 19 the Lord turn a very strong West wind which took the locusts away and blew them into the Red sea. There remains not one locust in all the territory of Egypt. The West wind that took away the locusts symbolizes the wind of deliverance. That is the main verse that mention about the West wind.

So these are the four winds of God.

The Seven Spirits

Let's look over to the book of Revelation 1: 4 John, to the seven churches which are in Asia. Grace to you and peace from him who is, and who was and who is to come and from the seven spirits who are before His throne. Notice there are seven spirits. Four winds, seven spirits.

What are the seven spirits? There is only one Holy Spirit, Ephesians 4 says. There is only one Spirit, one God, one faith, one people, one nation, one Lord, one Christ, one Savior. Seven spirits which we know is from Isaiah 11: 2 The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him the Spirit of wisdom and understand, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. Notice there are seven fold spirits. Number one the Spirit of the Lord. Number two the Spirit of Wisdom. Number three the Spirit of understanding. Number four the Spirit of counsel. Number five the Spirit of might. Number six the Spirit of knowledge. Number seven the Spirit of the fear of the Lord.

Now the seven fold spirits are divided into four rivers or four classifications. Now you are beginning to see the connection. In Isaiah 11: 2 The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. Do you notice there are four divisions? There is four times the word Spirit is mentioned.

Although there is a seven fold spirit yet it is four fold. The book of Proverbs always said there are three things yet four. So now you have four things yet seven. But notice there are four times the word spirit is mentioned. And the Spirit of wisdom is combined with the Spirit of understanding. The Spirit of counsel is combined with the Spirit of might. The Spirit of knowledge is combined with the Spirit of the fear of the Lord. And the first one the Spirit of the Lord remains by itself. These are the seven spirits of God in Revelation 1.

The same Holy Spirit that was upon the Lord Jesus Christ when he said in Luke 4: 18-19 How the Spirit of the Lord is upon him and he has anointed him to preach the gospel to the poor, to heal the broken hearted, to set the captives free, to open the blind eyes, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. Of course this prophecy points to our Lord Jesus Christ. Seven spirits of Gods divided into four categories. And the four categories point to the four winds of God. And those four winds of God were on the Lord Jesus Christ. So there are four winds of God. The first we realize is the wind of revelation. Then there is wind that brings provision. Then there is wind that brings judgment. And there is wind that brings deliverance.

Let me do the connection here straight away. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, which is the North wind. That is the wind that brings the presence of God. When the presence of God comes there is a revelation. It is the wind that brings a revelation into our life. Now all the others to a certain extend has revelation involved. But we are talking about the revelation of the Lord not just revelations about some doctrine or truth.

The Spirit of wisdom and understanding is connected to the spirit of prosperity. If you ever read the book of Proverbs that wisdom and prosperity are connected. It says wisdom is in the streets crying and calling that who so ever follow wisdom. You have prosperity on one hand, riches and honor on one hand and long life on the other. You cannot get the spirit of prosperity without the spirit of wisdom. If you don't have the spirit of wisdom there is way you can get prosperity. Prosperity comes by wisdom in the application of God's law and handling the things of God. the spirit of foolishness brings poverty. The two are linked up in the book of Proverbs. So the spirit of wisdom and understanding is the same spirit as the wind of provision. Think about it. If you have wisdom, you have everything you need. Every problem you have in your life is not the problem because of the lack of finances. It is the problem of the lack of knowing what to do to get it. It's never a money problem. It's an idea problem. We know what to do we will always receive. So it is the wind of prosperity or provision, wisdom and understanding. The spirit of wisdom and understanding is the South wind.

The third one is the spirit of counsel and might. Have you ever heard how it says when they look at Jesus they say from whence come this mighty works. The spirit of might is the same spirit of power and of judgment. Every time there is a healing Satan is judged. 1 John 3: 8 tells us for this purpose the Son of God was manifest that He might destroy the works of the devil. This is the spirit of counsel and might. If you study the word counsel, you will see how Godly counsel will turn aside and destroy other things that are against God. That is the East wind.

Now we are talking about the East wind that brings judgment. That brings power and might. That is the East wind that God brings forth.

Then we have the last one the West wind. The spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord is the spirit of deliverance. You shall know the truth and the Truth shall set you free.

Those same four areas are on the Lord Jesus if you read the gospel of Luke 4: 18-19. The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor. That is the spirit of revelation which is the North Wind.

He has sent me to heal the broken hearted. That is the spirit that brings healing, the spirit of counsel and might, judgment on the enemy.

To preach deliverance to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind. To set at liberty those who are oppressed. That is the spirit of deliverance, the West wind.

To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. That is the South wind, provision. The acceptable year of the Lord points to the year of Jubilee.

See all the four winds in the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ. And those are the four winds of revival that God wants to bring forth upon his people.

See the revival that we are praying for that we are looking for comes when the four winds of God contact. Sometimes you have only one wind blowing, the North wind. Sometimes you have the other wind blowing, the South wind. Sometimes you have the other wind blowing, the East wind. Sometimes there is an emphasis on the other side the West wind. Sometimes what people have is a touch from His presence, revelation, which is the North wind. Sometimes it is a divine flow of healing, the East wind. That is the wind of judgment and is also of counsel and might. Sometimes you have a wave of prosperity, the South wind. Sometimes you have a wind of deliverance, the West wind. And through church history sometimes one wind blows strong and it seems that is the only wind.

In the 1950s we saw the wind of healing blowing, the East wind. And we see how there is a great deliverance being brought and then the other two winds came in a wave of prosperity teaching followed by these waves of deliverance. And then from time to time there is pocket of the North wind. But in the last days and in any spot of the planet earth in any generation, in any country, the revival came forth is when the four winds of God come together form a move and a revival. We are praying for the North wind to blow on our nation. We are praying for the South wind to blow on our nation. We are praying for the East wind to blow on our nation. We are praying for the West wind to blow on our nation.

My friend it takes four winds. Some people have prayed and prayed, and they minister and minister but they only have one wind. All the time they only have the south wind. It will never perfect the body of Christ. Before the army of God can rise up, the army of God need to be healed, need deliverance to come forth to them, need provision to come forth into their lives. And they need to be anointed with fresh oil in the presence of God. And you will have a living army of the Lord. As we pray for revival, we got to pray for the four winds of God. There are not enough of the four winds of God blowing. They need to come forth from the North, come forth from the South, come forth from the East, and come forth from the West. And we need to bring them together like the whirlwind of the Lord. And let the presence of the Lord surround and fill our lives. In the days of the latter rain, ask for rain. And speak it forth.

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