One Banner, Two Nations, One Cry

One Banner, Two Nations, One Cry

I didn't expect to weep over the land.

I was serving in Tasmania — a breathtaking island off the southern coast of Australia — when something found me. Not the kind of encounter you plan for or manufacture. The kind that finds you.

And what I saw undid me.

A Vision Across Two Nations

In the encounter, I saw Dutch Sheets — author, prayer leader, and one of the foremost voices of intercession in our generation — holding the American flag. Weeping over it. Not in despair. Not in hopelessness. But in that specific kind of holy anguish that only comes when a human heart has been touched by the broken heart of God.

His tears were not weakness. They were intercession. They were partnership with Heaven.

Standing right next to him was an Australian man I didn't recognize — but I knew immediately what he represented. He was holding the Australian flag, weeping with that same sacred anguish over his own nation.

And then, rising behind both of them — behind both flags, behind both cries — I saw another flag ascending. One that united both nations under a single, ancient strategy: the Appeal to Heaven.

More Than a Flag

The Appeal to Heaven is more than a symbol. It is a posture. A declaration. A spiritual position taken by those who refuse to accept the current state of things as final.

When darkness looms — when secularism advances and we find ourselves in seasons where good is called evil and evil is called good — the answer has never been more political strategy, more clever messaging, or more human ingenuity. It has always been this: appeal to Heaven.

And here is what God does when we appeal.

He marks a Moses. He brings an Isaiah into a throne room and commissions him as a sent one. He fills a room of ordinary people with fire — and then deploys them as world-changers.

Consider Exodus 2–3. The Israelites groaned under Egyptian bondage. Their cry went up to God. And God — the God who sees and hears and acts — encountered Moses in the burning bush and sent him as a reformer and liberator. The appeal produced a divine commission.

"God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant… God saw the people of Israel — and God knew." (Exodus 2:24–25)

That is the God we appeal to. He hears. He remembers. He sees. He knows. And He acts.

What Is Happening in Australia

The vision I received was not disconnected from what I witnessed firsthand on the ground in Tasmania.

In 2025, we began a partnership with our dear friends Anthony and Annette Castro to host what has become known as the Strike Summit — a gathering designed to spiritually serve the nation of Australia and the surrounding islands. Word has spread. What began as a regional gathering has grown to the point of needing a larger venue, now capable of hosting up to 1,000 people. We already have the 2027 Strike Gathering scheduled for next March.

The vision of Strike is straightforward: refresh believers, equip leaders, and deploy Awakeners into every sphere of influence to bring in the Harvest of Australia and the islands of the sea.

I want to draw a distinction that I believe matters greatly for this hour. There is a difference between a revivalist and an Awakener.

A revivalist wakes up the Church. An Awakener calls the world to account.

Awakeners are vessels of righteousness embedded in every sphere of society — education, government, media, business, arts, and family. They are not afraid to carry a holy standard in a moment when deception is widespread and moral relativism is dressed up as wisdom.

At Strike, I watched this happen in real time. On the final night, the room erupted in high praise for nearly an hour — freedom, deliverance, and healing unfolding as people praised the Lord. Message after message carried the same fire and the same commission: God fills us so that we go. An army of Awakeners was sent out across Australia to partner with the Holy Spirit and renew the ground beneath every corner of society.

You Are Carrying a Kingdom Assignment

Here is what I want you to take from all of this — not just as a report from the field, but as a word over your own life:

When you show up, the Kingdom of God has arrived.

When you walk into your workplace, the Kingdom is there. When you enter your school, your neighborhood, your family gathering — the Kingdom has come with you. You have been filled with the Spirit of the Living God to be, as theologian N.T. Wright so brilliantly puts it, a "small working model of new creation" — right here, right now, in your sphere.

You are not waiting for the Awakening to begin before you step into your calling. You are the Awakening stepping into the room, because the Awakener lives inside of you.

Australia is rising. The intercessors are weeping over their land. The Awakeners are being commissioned.

And I believe the same is true wherever you are reading this today.

Heaven hears our appeals. History confirms it. Scripture promises it.

So appeal. Weep if you need to. Pray until something shifts. Then go — because that has always been the strategy.