The Turners and the Highway to Holiness - also update 7-2-07
Something cool and great just happened to me. (10:30 a.m Saturday morning). I received a call from Joanne Turner (wife of Lloyd Turner, author of the book “The Highway of Holiness). I was just sitting here in the dorm room at Western Ill. University blogging about the festival and out of nowhere this call came in.
She is, along with her husband a woman of prayer with a heart to see awakeing come to this region. She and Lloyd have devoted themselves to doing whatever the Lord tells them to relative to helping to bring about awakening. I had a chance to share with her Bill Tang’s dream about the river and she was really touched by it and said it very much connected with what God had been showing them.
She called, literally out of no where after being awakened at 3:30 a.m. by the Lord. At some point in the early morning she said the Lord had prompted her to call me. Wow, I’m blown away, who the heck am I? Anyway, she shared with me a conference they are trying to put together as well as a strong sense that God is drawing them to focus attention on the city of Newark. I don’t know exactly where this will lead, but I am thrilled at the thought that God would bother with me in the equation. Read on for an update to this inital blog entry
Update: 7-2
Shortly after this entry (made at while at Cornerstone) I received an email with more details. Click this link if you want to read the full proposal for a conference in November called “Heal the Land” This document will give you details concerning the Turner’s proposal for a conference aimed “To establish a foundation for a transformation prototype in New Jersey by identifying the core paradigms and principles that bring it about; and by identifying and removing spiritual structures that impede the move of God in New Jersey. Specifically, to “remove the curse” that has defiled the land since the riots of 1967, as well as other defilements relating to broken covenants with Native Americans, racial and ethnic discrimination, and political corruption in New Jersey.”
I regard this as an unfolding of things which God is doing in NJ, specifically in answer to our prayers for revival. This particular perspective is new to me, but I believe God is linking us together with others who share a passion for awakening. I have been invited to join the Turners for dinner next Thursday evening (along with David Bryant). Please pray as I venture into new areas of connection and bridge building with others who share a passion to see God’s glory be revealed in this generation.