A precious lady recently commented on one of my old posts, “Oh that the people on earth could look at us and say, “I know you’ve been with Him!” “

As soon as I read it, The LORD spoke to me and reminded me of the first time it happened to me, way back in 1989/90.

It was the day I received my personal baptism in The Holy Spirit. Apparently I shone like newly polished brass.

It’s happened again since then, both to me and to others I know.

Today was different though, in that I didn’t actually have any great experience of the Presence of God, other than a reminder of that wonderful day and the effect of my experience on my friend.

He knew that I had spent time with God! He said that my face was shining and would I be so kind as to tell him what had happened? Well, words to that effect!

Then, The LORD spoke to me immediately and so very clearly that it might as well have been audible!

“Do you remember when this happened to you?” He asked, “How your friend Ted knew that we had spent time together?”

Of course I remembered it only too well — like it was yesterday.

“Well, it will be like that for many of My People very soon!” said The LORD.

“In the coming days, there will be a visible shine on those who spend time with Me — just as Moses when he came down from the mountain of My Presence!” says The LORD.

“Your countenance shall be lit up and those who are not saved will stare at you, and point at you, and the brave ones will ask, ‘Why?’

In fact”, says The LORD, “it will become a hallmark of My Presence and will cause many to look again at Me and examine themselves in the light of what they see in you.”

It all brings a whole new significance to Isaiah 60,

“Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of The LORD is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but The LORD will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.” Isaiah 60:1-3.

~ Chris G. Bennett

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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