We Must Recognise The Presence and Open The Gates!
On Facebook, I gave an account of events at our Church this weekend.
On two consecutive days we heard the sound of, and felt the presence of Ruach Hakodesh as He blew around our auditorium.
Just sitting contemplating, wondering why He didn’t manifest more, The LORD directed my thoughts to two things.
They both point directly at the things we DIDN’T do!
First, I remembered Evan Roberts’ Prayer, which was something to the effect of:
“LORD, I’ve laid the wood on the altar, it’s ready for your fire!”
He was calling on The Fire of God in much the same way as Elijah at Mount Carmel.
Then The LORD brought to memory a post I’d written quite recently about preparing a runway for The Holy Spirit to land.
Two unconnected things. One a historical record of an earlier revival, and the other of, basically, a shared vision.
Yet both somehow relate to the stirrings of Holy Spirit prior to the start of Revival.
When we were alerted to the sound and feel of The Holy Spirit’s wind blowing and whistling around our auditorium, we did nothing bar marvel and praise God.
We also didn’t invite Him to land on the ‘Runway of Worship’ we had laid before Him!
When these signs manifest, I believe The LORD is waiting for us to do something to both manifestly usher Him into our meeting, and also to call Him to ‘light the fire that we have laid on the altar’!
Just as Elijah called for ‘The God who answers by Fire, He is The LORD’!
And…. Just as an aircraft approaches a runway, the pilot cannot land without permission to do so!
God is waiting for us to call upon Him, at that specific moment, to do whatever He wants to do!
It’s up to us to recognise His Presence, and then seize the moment and ‘open the gates that the King of Glory may come in’!
What do you think?
The original Facebook post was this :-
“I honestly believe we have seen the beginnings of revival at our church. On both days of our Passover weekend conference we felt and heard the wind of the Spirit, Ruach Hakodesh, blowing around our sanctuary. We have felt Him move before but to hear and feel Him as He blows on us is so powerful and precious too.
The worship was interspersed with moments of total silence and stillness — no-one wanted to move. The presence became tangible for a while.”
More LORD please, more of You!
~ 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.
Hallelujah!
Joel 2 have 4 phases. First, judgments Revelation 8,9 the Trumpets verse 1-11 then repentance verse 12-17, then Adonai will restore water and food verse 18-27, then Acts 2 out pouring of Adonai Ruach verse 28,29 revival which has not been seen and experienced on planet earth.