The Lord gave me this vision several months ago that keeps recurring to me over and over to this day.

I see a wide river that's moving/flowing, and in this river is a boat, and there are many people in it. The river comes to a "Y" and the people are leaning over the boat trying to make the boat go to the left, but it's going to the right. Then God says to the people, "Let go! Stop, because if you fall out you will drown." Then God sends a fast undercurrent, and it caused the boat to immediately go to the right and the people fell back into the boat.

Then the boat went around a curve, and the river turned into a road. Now the people are walking down the road. As far as they can see the road is straight and they know that they are on the right road. And then, a big huge sign that said "DETOUR" popped up. The people saw the sign and began to complain, because they could see the direction they wanted to go. But they went to the right anyway. And they went around another curve, and came back to the road they were on originally. God spoke to them, "Behold," and the people all turned to the left and looked, and there was a huge canyon in the road. And I heard the Lord say, "I am calling My people to be repairers of the breach."

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The river that sister Twila sees is the River of God that the Lord describes in Ezekiel chapter 47. This River will represent the uncovering of God's Spirit throughout the Earth, which will produce the greatest spiritual revival and transformation in the history of mankind. Many preachers preach on this coming River, but, when they do, they almost always fail to recognize the spiritual foundation out of which this River will flow:

"Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar." (Ezekiel 47:1)

Notice that the water issues from the eastern threshold. In Scripture, the east is associated with the rising of the sun, and is thereby associated with the Face of God and His Glory:

"And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof" (Revelation 21:23)

"¹⁶And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. ¹⁷And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: ¹⁸ I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." (Revelation 1:16-18)

"¹⁶Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. ¹⁷Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. ¹⁸But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2 Corinthians 3:16-18)

"For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." (2 Corinthians 4:6)

The east speaks of the manifestation of God's Glory, which implies death. Most believers associate God's Glory with happy feelings and emotions, but Scripture describes God's Glory as fear-inspiring and destructive of all mortal nature. Notice, for example, how the apostle John (who used to rest his head on Jesus' bosom) literally "dropped dead" when he beheld the Glory of God in Christ in Revelation 1:17 quoted above. Notice also how Ezekiel fell on his face when he beheld God's Glory:

God's Glory brings judgments and destruction of sin and iniquity. Therefore, the fact that the River of God will flow from the threshold that faces east means that God's River will flow when the Glory of God is established inside the Church, and that will mean the manifestation of the fierce God of judgments and justice that most pastors want to ignore. Notice, for example, how the apostle John saw a two-edged sword coming forth from out of the mouth of Jesus when he beheld His Glory in Revelation 1:16; this emphasizes the fact that God's Glory comes with judgments.

The fact that believers prefer the left side is shown by the fact that the people on the boat, who represent the Body of Christ, wanted the boat to go left, instead of right. The fact that the boat came to a "Y" means that the Church is at a crossroads. Believers want Revival because Revival is synonymous in their hearts with "blessings", "happiness" and "healings". However, God wants Revival because Revival means a Church full of justice and judgments, a Church full of His Holy Presence that will take over the spiritual atmosphere of the Earth and reveal God to all the nations.

For the Lord, Revival means the full manifestation of our God-given spiritual potential as sons and daughters of the Most High God. However, most pastors want a revival moved by the spirit of Assyria (the spirit of "blessings" and "spiritual contentment") propelled by the preaching of a left-handed gospel which, according to Scripture, draws in Hittite spirits of emptiness and prophetic purposelessness. This explains why a canyon appeared on the left side at the end of the vision. The world lives in Hittite emptiness and purposelessness because it does not know God, and a Church that is full of Hittite spirits cannot rescue the world, because the enemy must be conquered inside the Church before it can be conquered outside:

"⁴Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? ⁵Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye." (Matthew 7:4-5)

"¹And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. ²And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer." (Revelation 6:1-2)

The passage above speaks of the Church "going forth conquering and to conquer" (v2). This means that those of you out there who have the remnant spirit will be used by God to wage spiritual warfare to overthrow the iniquity and sin strongholds inside the Church first; after conquering the spirits inside the Church, those with the remnant spirit will go out to conquer the world back spiritually unto God.

The process of conquering the spirit of Assyria inside the Church is a silent struggle that is going on inside the Church today. This is why the vision speaks of an undercurrent carrying the boat to the right. This is not being done by the "leadership" of the Church, because the visible "leaders" don't want to scare away their members by speaking of God's righteousness and judgments, and their spiritual hard-heartedness makes them incapable of distinguishing between religious legalism and God's judgments. Therefore, God is using a remnant core of believers through whom He is taking His Church in the "right" direction.

When the Lord warns the people in the boat that they will "drown" if they persist in going to the left, He is giving them the "Noah warning". Noah's flood came as a result of God's judgments against the people who harbored Girgashite spirits in their hearts:

"And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth" (Genesis 6:13)

God is calling His people to remove their focus from earthliness and to pursue His eternal inheritance. Those who insist on pursuing earthliness will suffer God's judgments, and will drown into spiritual oblivion in "Noah's flood". This is the reason why the Lord declares that the latter days shall be as in the days of Noah:

"²⁴Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: ²⁵And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. ²⁶And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: ²⁷And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it." (Matthew 7:24-27)

The reason why the river turned into a road in the vision has prophetic significance. At the beginning, the Lord will compel His Church into accepting His righteous judgments, as when children are compelled into going to school. Centuries under a pastoral covering that hates judgments have "shielded" the Church from growing, leading to a very immature Church:

"¹²For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. ¹³For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. ¹⁴But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil." (Hebrews 5:12-14)

As the Church begins to mature, God will allow believers who have been exposed to the Gospel of Justice and Judgments to make up their minds on their own. Believers will be allowed to decide whether or not they want to continue in the straight Gospel of Righteousness or turn back to the "gospel" of blessings and spiritual mediocrity. This is why the "DETOUR" sign appeared after the compelling river turned into a voluntarily-walked straight road. This sign will be put up by satan (cursed be him) and those who, along with him want to turn back to the "good old days".

The "complaining" done by the believers in the vision also has prophetic significance. Of the 7 types of evil spirits, the one most related in Scripture with "complaining" is the Girgashite spirit:

Girgashite spirits will try to tempt believers into allowing them to return into their hearts, but those who remain faithful will continue on the road of righteousness and will be used to fill the spiritual atmosphere of the Earth with God's Glory:

"¹¹For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. ¹²Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! ¹³Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? ¹⁴For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." (Habakkuk 2:11-14)