Iris Ministries Sudan's journey has been paved with visions and promises from Jesus. Each step forward has been forged in His faithfulness. It all started one afternoon under a green and white striped tent in Pemba, Mozambique.

AFRICA ABLAZE

I came to Iris Ministries in May 06 knowing I would be soon sent to Sudan. One day in worship in Pemba, Jesus showed me two simultaneous streams of blue revival fire igniting in the SE part of the African continent and blazing northward, one along the East Coast of Africa and one right up the center. They converged in the geographic area around Sudan and they built and grew until they could no longer be contained and burst forth into the Middle East. The unprecedented fire of revival being poured forth in Mozambique is about to set Africa ablaze with His love bringing the light of the Gospel all the way back to Jerusalem.

I was originally hoping to go to serve in a IDP camp in the north, but at the very last moment Jesus redirected me, again in a very profound visitation. I saw Him standing in Southern Sudan as a Man of Fire with His arms spread open wide ready to welcome the war ravaged south into the embrace of revival. He looked into my eyes and said, "I will reach the north through the south, GO south." Logistics in fact made it impossible for me to proceed north as planned.

All my plans seemed to disintegrate before my eyes in a less than a few days and Jesus told me to take the first month after leaving Mozambique to go pray in South Africa. I wound up in the middle of downtown Joburg not knowing anyone, with no connections and no idea HOW I would even GET to South Sudan. As I spent the month in prayer in a small upper room near to where JG Lake's historical healing revival was centered, Jesus was making the connections I would later follow as one dot led to another right across the continent of Africa through the nation of Uganda.

By the time I left South Africa a month later I had the clear go ahead from Iris leadership to embark on this journey into God's dreams for my new adopted nation of Sudan. I had no idea the adventure that awaited me.

While I was in South Africa praying, one night the veil between time and eternity lifted. Jesus was standing before me with flashes of lightening coming from inside Him—it was so bright I could see it through my eyelids. 

He explained that He carried the lightening of heaven in His very being.  Why?  Because lightening is where heaven finds a place of agreement with the earth.  His life was lived in perfect agreement with heaven.  As when He walked the earth now so with us as He lives in us and bring His dreams to pass through us. 

It was wave upon wave of liquid light and glory that kept washing over me as time ceased to exist. He spoke to me for the 4 hours or so I was caught up about the mantle, the mandate, the message and the movement.  The mantle was revival, the mandate was His Kingdom, the message was love, the movement was to carry His glory into the darkness. 

“Catalyze the movement of passion and presence… Call forth a movement…” I saw vessels being filled with His glory all over the earth—lights arising and shining from the place of abandoned reckless faith in Him.  “Call them to converge... Converge in Me…” And I saw these little lights walking, running on this moving highway into the heart of God… each beat more were brought in and then thrust forth to the nations to carry His heart.  “Call them to converge to carry My heart…” He said.

At one point Jesus took a horn of oil and poured it over my head. He took an African turban and wrapped my head in revelation—not just of heaven but of the cultures and people I am getting sent to.  And He presented me with one black African baby and one Arab African baby for each arm… and I knew then in that instant He had given me Sudan.  I was holding Sudan in my arms—and how He wants these peoples to be fully distinct like different color strands but intricately woven together like a tapestry to become the face of His Bride and the reflection of His beauty in the earth.  He went on to say:

"Yei stands is the place where the Young Enter In—into My Presence, into My embrace, into the arms of revival, ignited by My glory love, dripping with the oil of heavenly visitation.  Tonight you are given a nation and called forth to mother a movement, to raise up a global tribe—a band who release heavens sound and walk in heaven's reality."

BEGINNINGS...

--Michele Perry