The LORD doesn’t do things for the sake of doing!

The LORD does things for purpose — like this back then — but for now, eight years later. This is so a now, living Word, a Rhema Word.

We had just spent a few days in Wales. It was a lovely time, part work, part play.

Anointed meetings and a heatwave — a rare combination in The United Kingdom.

The meetings were led by a team of worshippers who are not the usual team — they were wonderful. We drove back home — and it was quick!

It’s school holidays season, but even so, we didn’t expect such a good run. We didn’t speed, we just met no resistance from heavy traffic!

Then we got home to find no internet, apparently due to an external fault somewhere which they say they’ll fix tomorrow. Something we took for granted had failed!

Nothing about this trip was “business as usual”.

Then The LORD started to speak and show me things….

I saw Churches which prayed for Revival, had ‘Revival Meetings’, but who still carried on their pre-planned meetings; who still did all their ‘good works’; and who, to all intents and purposes, carried on ‘as normal’!

There was NO CHANGE.

Their schedule was still the governing factor in everything they planned and everything they did.

The LORD then spoke and He said, “They take me, My Spirit, their Salvation — everything — totally for granted!

When My Spirit moves, don’t Take Things for Granted!

Things will not be the same!

Everything changes when My Spirit falls on your meetings and on My People!”

He then showed me other Churches who had embraced His Spirit, and who were paying the price for Revival.

I saw crowded, long, long meetings.

I saw Miracles, Signs and Wonders — incredible healing, changed lives, changed attitudes, changed agendas, and changed communities in which the Churches were placed.

“These take nothing for granted, even though I have given them everything!” said The LORD, “They do not let up for a moment. Look!”

I was taken out to the back of the Churches where nobody usually goes. There were fires burning….

“See this?” The LORD asked. “This is all the rubbish, all the dross and unnecessary stuff they used to do but no longer need.”

I was taken inside the Churches.

I saw groups studying, praying, worshipping, eating, and even living together.

But the thing that struck me was not the changed lives of the adults, and all of their lives were changed. No!

It was the way children were being taught, raised, and used in Kingdom work.

Children healing, children interceding, children prophesying, children worshipping — child disciples with faith to move mountains!

“Don’t take things for Granted!” says God.

“Let Me build My Church just as I promised! And I will give you a Church fit for My Habitation — fit to be The Bride of Christ!”

Hear the words of The LORD today!

“Don’t Take Things for Granted!”

Postscript

Picture — just because you dip your bucket in the well, it doesn’t mean it will be full of water!

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~ Chris G. Bennett

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Chris Bennett came to salvation in 1962 but didn’t begin ministry until 2007 — a late-comer! Now mandated by The LORD to prophesy and open old wells of revival in the U.K., but especially in Wales. He has also operated Healing Rooms, and worked with deliverance teams, all with his wife, Linda. Happily now doing whatever The LORD asks of them! Founder, with wife Linda, of their ministry The Upper Room Encounter.

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