Melissa has nearly two decades in Church leadership roles and executive-level Kingdom administration. Through these strategic assignments, she’s helped birth and steward apostolic mandates and prophetic intercessory initiatives alongside key national leaders such as Cindy Jacobs, Dutch Sheets and Lou Engle.
Melissa and her husband, Anthony, share a passion to fuel revival lifestyles and societal reformation. They travel and speak under the banner of HopeFires International, their itinerant ministry devoted to igniting hope, healing, and spiritual hunger. They previously helped launch and lead a School of Supernatural Ministry, discipling students to receive and release the Kingdom everywhere they go. Melissa and Anthony also shepherded and equipped believers on a broader scale, as Pastors of Prayer, Prophetic and Deliverance Ministries for Trinity Church.
Melissa is a graduate of Christ For The Nations Institute, an Ordained Minister, and member of the U.S. Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders and H.I.M. (Harvest International Ministry) apostolic network. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Political Science and Law, and a Master Degree in Public Administration, Policy and Nonprofit Management from New York University. You’ll also find Melissa joyfully releasing the Kingdom in the realm of government by serving her city and nation through various forms of civic engagement.
Honored that her life includes all of the above, Melissa is a loving wife and proud mom. Some of her favorite things include warm cups of tea, reading adventure novels with her son, Caleb, and family walks along nature trails in their beautiful city within Dallas, Texas.
(2/25/24, 7:45AM) I kept seeing a man in the spirit. He is standing in line to be anointed by a minister. The minister is full of oil (his body looked like an oil flask). The man is eager to get a spot of oil on his forehead (the tip of the ministers finger that had oil on it) from the minister that is full of oil. The man gets his touch and walks away, content with the oily spot on his head. He shows everyone his spot, tells everyone the words that were said when he was anointed. He then took some of the spot of oil on his head and puts it on another, attempting to anoint as the minister full of oil did. He never realized that his spot of oil was dry.
While the vision is pretty straight forward, I asked the Lord what I was seeing. He said “It’s the condition of many. Like in the story of the 10 virgins (Matthew 25) five of them only wanted a spot and the other five wanted to be filled with and carry their own oil. The “foolish” were content with being parrots and giving second hand revelation as their own, running on fumes of the words heard from another and the impartation received from people full of oil. The spot of oil on their forehead distracted them from dryness of their oil jar.
The Lord is calling out and saying “Buy oil while there is time to acquire it.”The time of needing to tap into your oil reserves will come, but if there are no reserves You will look to other people and unhealthy things to fill your dry well.
God is raising up men and women that will teach the body of Christ not just how to buy oil, but how to keep it overflowing as well. Spiritual oil architects are moving to the forefront with great strategy and insight on how to dig for oil, how to discern where to find it and how to manage it once the well is struck.
IGNITING HOPE, HEALING AND SPIRITUAL HUNGER