Welcome to the Kingdom Reformation Leaders Community—a gathering for those who are hungry for more of Jesus and want to connect with others who share the same heart and passion.
In this powerful session, hosted by Glenn Bleakney of Awake Nations, we are honored to welcome Evangelist Bill Prankard live from Ottawa, Canada.
Bill Prankard has spent over 60 years in full-time ministry and 53 years traveling as a healing evangelist across Canada and around the world. He and his wife Gwen have witnessed extraordinary moves of God—from the charismatic renewal to the Toronto Blessing, where Bill preached over 50% of the time during the first two years of that outpouring. Their ministry, Timothy Generation, has brought the gospel to some of the most remote places on earth, including the Inuit and Indigenous peoples of the Canadian Arctic and Russia.
In this session, Bill takes us back to 1972 when God gave him a vision of Canada in revival. He saw it clearly—stadiums filled with young adults, a thousand young people on the streets of Ottawa, the sick being healed, and captives being set free. From that day forward, Bill began declaring that Canada shall be saved. For over five decades, he has held onto that vision despite countless Christian leaders trying to explain why it could never happen. Bill shares with conviction that when you have seen something from God, nobody can talk you out of it. When you’ve seen it, you can believe for it.
Bill reminds us that we are living in a unique moment in history. We have the privilege of writing the last chapters of the Book of Acts. No government and no human institution will determine the future of our nations—God will. And God has promised that before the end, there will be the greatest revival the world has ever seen. Bill believes we are about to witness something that will dwarf Azusa Street, the Welsh Revival, and even the early church. He points to Joel chapter 2, where God declares that He will pour out His Spirit on all flesh. When God says “I shall” and “I will,” nothing can stop it. Committees can debate. People can vote. Skeptics can criticize. But God’s purposes will stand.
This session includes a powerful teaching on the story of Elisha receiving a double portion of Elijah’s spirit. Bill explores why Elisha was the only one among all the sons of the prophets to receive this impartation. At every stop along the journey—Gilgal, Bethel, Jericho—there were groups of prophets who knew something significant was about to happen. They all sensed that God was going to take Elijah. But they were content to stay where they were. They even pressured Elisha to stay with them. Elisha refused. He declared that as long as God was alive and he was alive, he would not stop pursuing. Bill draws the parallel to today: there are many in the body of Christ who sense that God is about to move, but they are satisfied to remain on the sidelines. The key to receiving what God has is relentless pursuit. You cannot possess what you do not pursue.
Bill also shares the story of Peter walking on water. While many focus on the fact that Peter sank, Bill points out the obvious: Peter walked on water. He got out of the boat when no one else would. And when he went down, he went down right beside Jesus. Jesus didn’t have to swim across the sea to rescue him—He simply reached out and touched him. Bill suggests that before Peter ever stepped out of the boat, there were voices telling him he was crazy, that it couldn’t be done. This is what happens whenever someone moves toward the supernatural. Religious people will pressure you to stay safe, to stay in the boat, to not rock anything. But you cannot get out of the boat without rocking the boat.
The session includes the remarkable testimony of how Bill was first called into ministry. He did not grow up in Pentecostal circles and originally planned to become a funeral director. When God clearly called him to preach, Bill said no. He looked at the successful ministers around him—people who could sing, play instruments, speak eloquently—and felt he had nothing to offer. He describes himself as someone who got tongue-tied in groups and had no obvious talents for ministry. But God does not stop speaking when we say no. Eventually, Bill surrendered at an altar and told God that all he had was himself. That was enough. What Bill learned is that God rarely calls people to do things they already know how to do. If He did, they would take the credit. Instead, God calls us to the impossible so that when it happens, He receives the glory. The Holy Spirit equips us for everything He calls us to do—but only after we say yes.
Bill recounts the life-changing experience of attending a Kathryn Kuhlman service in Pittsburgh in 1972. He admits he went with a critical spirit, thinking he already had everything figured out. But what he witnessed transformed him. In Kathryn Kuhlman, he saw someone who truly knew the Holy Spirit—not as a doctrine or a theological concept, but as her closest friend. The way she spoke about Him was the way someone speaks about a person they love deeply. In that moment, Bill made a decision that became the most important commitment of his life outside of salvation: “Holy Spirit, I don’t know You, but I want to know You. I will give the rest of my life pursuing You.” On the bus ride home, people began to be healed. Revival broke out in the small town where Bill was pastoring—so many people came to the miracle services that attendance exceeded the town’s entire population.
Bill emphasizes the distinction between being baptized in the Holy Spirit and being baptized with fire. John the Baptist prophesied that Jesus would baptize with the Holy Ghost and with fire. Bill believes the church has focused on the Spirit but neglected the fire. The fire of God is what transforms timid believers into world-changers. The disciples entered the upper room confused, discouraged, and afraid. They came out like a spiritual army. The same Peter who denied knowing Jesus stood up and preached, and three thousand were saved in a single day. What God is preparing to do in this hour will make that look like a small beginning.
Bill shares the incredible story of organizing the Great Canadian Prayer Meeting in the 1970s. When he heard that Quebec was planning a referendum to separate from Canada, he knew he had to do something. He rented the largest auditorium in Ottawa—a venue seating 10,000 people—for a national prayer gathering. Pastor after pastor came to him urging him to cancel, warning that it would be embarrassing when hardly anyone showed up. But then something unexpected happened: the Prime Minister’s office called. Pierre Trudeau was concerned that so many people would attend the prayer meeting that it would cause traffic jams during the Canada Day parade. The government asked Bill to move the meeting to the afternoon and offered to put it on the official national schedule. Bill realized that the Prime Minister had more faith for the prayer meeting than the Christian leaders did. Nearly 9,000 people showed up that day. They prayed for Canada, and Quebec did not separate.
Bill speaks prophetically over everyone listening, declaring that this is a year of restoration. What the enemy has stolen from families, churches, health, and communities is coming back. God is a God of restoration. He promises to restore the years that the locusts have eaten. Bill shares about the transition in his own ministry—how he and Gwen have passed the baton to Jacob Walda, a young man who received the exact same vision of Canadian revival that Bill received decades earlier. They met five years ago when Jacob sat in the front row laughing as Bill shared the vision, because God had shown Jacob the same thing. This is how God works—connecting generations around shared vision and purpose.
At 81 years old, Bill shares that he is more hungry for God than he has ever been. When someone recently suggested he had retired, his associate Jacob corrected them: “You can’t retire if you’ve got fire in you.” Like Jeremiah, Bill says the fire is shut up in his bones and he has to let it out. Though Bill has stepped back from traveling ministry, his passion for revival and for seeing God move has only intensified.
Bill references the prophecies of Smith Wigglesworth, who before his death foresaw four great waves of the Holy Spirit. The first three waves—the healing revival of the late 1940s, the charismatic renewal, and the Word of Faith movement—all came to pass exactly as Wigglesworth described. The fourth wave, which Wigglesworth said would be the greatest revival in history, is still coming. He prophesied that no disease would be able to stand, that the dead would be raised, that entire hospitals would be emptied, and that so many would come to Christ that no one would be able to count them. Bill believes we are now entering the early stages of this final great move of God.
The session concludes with Bill praying over everyone watching. He prays for a fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire—fire in our hands so that when we touch people they are healed, fire in our mouths so that our words bring deliverance, fire in our ears so that we hear God’s voice above every distraction, and fire in our feet so that we walk only where He leads. He declares that this is the beginning of a new season and a new chapter for everyone who will say yes to pursuing the Holy Spirit with their whole hearts.
Bill leaves us with an encouragement: this is the best day in all of history to be alive. The world may be getting darker, but we are Kingdom people. We are not of this world. We are part of the generation that will inherit everything God has promised. And we are better together—part of the same tribe, speaking the same language, burning with the same fire.
It’s not over until God says it’s over.
About Bill Prankard: Bill Prankard is a healing evangelist based in Ottawa, Canada. He and his wife Gwen have been in full-time ministry for over 60 years. Their ministry, Timothy Generation, focuses on evangelism and church planting among Indigenous peoples in the Canadian Arctic and Russia. Bill has ministered across Canada and around the world, including significant involvement in the Toronto Blessing revival. Jacob Walda now serves as the leader of Timothy Generation Ministries, continuing the vision for Canadian revival. Connect at TimothyGen.com.
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