Heaven in Your Home: Cultivating God’s Outpouring in Your Family
Revivals are always personal and regional. Have you ever thought about that?
There is no such thing as a transforming great move of God without a person leading it and a regional people consecrated to it.
When JerriAnn Webb wrote Heaven in My Home, she meant for it to begin a revival in your home, to make it a holy habitation for His very presence. This is not just a home-building book, it’s a Holy Spirit-building-your-home book. That’s what a revival in your house looks like.
Revival and The Blessed Mess of Family
I don’t have to know you personally to know that your family is a mess. I don’t have to keep up with you on social media to know about the challenges this culture spits at you while you are raising your family and building a home.
Here’s what I can tell you. God loves to bring revival into the mess of humanity and culture. He is chomping at the bit to do amazing things and make your house an amazing place. He can bless your house and family no matter who the makeup or mix of the people are.
Just look at how He moves in national revivals.
Revolution Revival
In the early United States, Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield’s dramatic preaching hit like a lightning bolt, and 80 percent of America’s 900,000 colonists personally heard them preach. The revival changed everything and began a revolution. It was for a messy bunch of people that God brought this great blessing.
Rebel Revival
A look back into the horrors of the Civil War shows us that in 1865, as 620,000 Americans lay dead, there was a darkness and hopelessness that none of us today can imagine. One we might have never recovered from without revival. Seven out of every ten men from ages to 15 to 50 were never returning to Texas, and one out of every 50 Americans of all the 31,000,000 people counted in the 1860 census had died. The few who lived were traumatized and suffering.
Now that’s a mess—and this day is not as difficult as that day. If Heaven could come then, Heaven can come to home now—no matter how split up your family has been.
At the start of the Civil War in 1861, it seemed as though the soldiers for both sides had left Christianity and gone AWOL from the biblical principles on which our nation was founded. Soon revival broke out and the tide turned, first among the Confederate forces. An estimated 300,000 soldiers were converted to Jesus and was evenly divided between the Southern and Northern Armies in their new walk in Christ.
Imagine the difference those people carrying the fire of the Holy Spirit brought to the mess of the reconstruction of our nation!
Redeeming Revival
What about the “mess” of the people involved in the Azuza Street Revival? A one-eyed, Black man of God living during a time of a racially divided culture. William J. Seymour was locked out of a church where he was preaching and starts having house meetings. In spite of his rejection, he brought redemption in the form of never-before-seen miracles, and soon people were speaking with tongues of angels in the City of Angels in California.
Reefer Revival
How about the “messy” people of the Jesus Movement? A bunch of dope-smoking hippies who turned the world upside down. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus was the reset the church needed, and my goodness I am thankful! They changed the Church to prioritize the love of God, tear down walls of separation, make evangelism radical, and look for the imminent and glorious return of the Lord Jesus Christ. The later prophetic movement owes so much to the revival from the Jesus Movement.
Rivalry Revival
What about the Brownsville revival? A fiery evangelist, a stately pastor, and a messianic theologian meet together one morning and somehow more than 3 million people traveled from around the world for five years to be part of the revival! Every kind of healing and encounter with God you have ever dared to try and imagine happened there and effected the body of Christ. It was amazing! And it was a mess the whole time.
Resident Revival
The next big revival and move of the Holy Spirit is in families. I mean that. All of my seeking as a church leader leads to what God wants to bring to our homes. He is not afraid to bless your mess! He wants to bring Heaven into your home.
Enter JerriAnn Webb and Heaven in My Home.
JerriAnn has been hidden by the Lord for a long time. Quietly serving and loudly proclaiming this next move of the Holy Spirit. God is taking the lid off of her the way Betty Crocker used to break her Tupperware seal. He is doing this same thing with so many other young proven leaders who have been carrying this next great revival. Don’t worry about the timing of this revelation because it is perfect. The Church is going to recognize her because of the way she carries His presence in a previously unrecognized way. Get ready!
I had a very special encounter with the Lord in my first encounter with JerriAnn. In 2020 I was participating in a conference held in the “hillbilly part” of Florida. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but I can guarantee you, it was not JerriAnn and the encounter with Jesus I took home with me.
When I returned home, this is what I told my wife, Leanna, and I will tell you the same: “I don’t know that I have ever met a more anointed person to be a mama and to make it look so easy to have a Holy Spirit family.”
Now this is something to say to a lady who has built at least fourteen orphanages and rescue homes. Leanna is a mama to mamas and a rescuer of rescuers. She oversees the cares of thousands and thousands of kids right this minute.
Leanna said, “Oh! I can’t wait to meet her!” So she did.
Both of us will tell you that JerriAnn is like a supernatural soccer mom. She is something like the farmer’s daughter meets the CEO of all things family, and it seems to be so easy for her. Of course, victorious people make it look easy to be victorious because in reality and internally they are all fierce fighters. JerriAnn is a selfless fighter tuned in to the Holy Spirit and focused on mastering all things that would disrupt her destiny and legacy.
She calls me her “Crazy Uncle Troy.” She is so much like my heart, I have often wondered if my daddy strayed off to Florida in his backslidden years. I know we have to be kin somehow.
Remarkable Revivalist
When JerriAnn is not elegantly leading next-level, powerful, prophetic conferences, you may find her serving her family’s tree harvesting business and timber sales, one of the most successful and awarded in the nation.
On the same night that she tucks her incredible kids into bed, you may find her leading an evangelical team to reach girls in a strip club. She may be leading kids church in the morning and spending the afternoon with addicted prostitutes who need a mama or sister to love them.
She may very well have a nice dinner with the husband she is madly in love with, after spending a day literally snake hunting in the Florida swamps with him just for fun.
She is a homeschooling Mega Mom. She has an impressive classroom in her amazing house because she was born to school all of us in how to bring Heaven to our home.
Always laughing, she lives in defiant hope and supernatural optimism. She is so full of joy that you can’t help but laugh when you are around her. She’s funny and her smile comes into the room about three minutes before the rest of her does.
Her feminine attractiveness is undeniable but not just because she is so pretty. I think it’s because she is so uniquely passionate and brave. Brave, hopeful, and innovative. Hard working, determined, and so full of mercy and love. She is uniquely JerriAnn Webb and so is the message of family she lives and demonstrates.
Behind her “hick” southern accent is a prophetic voice and an articulate language we desperately need in all of our homes. Her biblical understanding and prophetic insight are unlike anything I have ever seen in the field of family and home.
I was blown away at her passion, her wisdom, and her application with her family. I wanted to be a better dad and grandfather than ever before. It didn’t hurt that she was such a great speaker, but she was obviously anointed to build her own house and I believed I could carry Heaven home with me into places I had not considered.
The Amplified Version of the Bible puts Proverbs 14:1 this way:
The wise woman builds her house [on a foundation of godly precepts, and her household thrives], but the foolish one [who lacks spiritual insight] tears it down with her own hands [by ignoring godly principles].
JerriAnn is literally that wise woman, and she is sharing her amazing insight with you and me in her first book.
Heavenly Plans For A Holy Home
You are going to get lots of heavenly plans while reading this book, but remember that it is one thing for God to give you the plan—it is a whole other thing for you to conform your life to the image of God’s plan.
Have hope and follow JerriAnn’s lead. She has done it and is killing it!
I close with the same statement I began with, “Revivals are always personal and regional.”
In this case, the person is you and the revival will come from the holy hope this book will bring you. The region is your house and personal address. Heaven is coming to your home!
