Revival Fires

One of my greatest joys is travelling to other churches and speaking with Christians from other places and even different streams, by that I mean from different church backgrounds.

One thing I have found in recent months; There is a real expectation across the board that God is about to move.

I have a real sense in my spirit that the next move of God will not be in the major revival centres where folks flock to ‘catch’ something new from God. It won’t be a Pensacola, Toronto, or any of the other high profile churches. I believe it will be spontaneous combustion in the small, little, faithful churches of many denominations. Revival springing up in the ordinary every day churches who faithfully preach Jesus.

We need to be faithful to the message and develop a hunger for God to move. It won’t come to those that look for the publicity that these large scale church revivals  brings: the  My church is better than yours  or my church is featured on The God Chanel mentality that seems to  pervade many evangelical ministers minds. No it will be for those people and congregations who simply want more of God and to be used by Him. I think that it will have many different faces and not be identified by one manifestation of the Spirits power but by many. Each church will have its own unique experience of God.

Are we ready?

How would we cope?

I sometimes wonder how we would cope. Could we actually survive and keep our faith. Persecution. All over the world Christians are facing persecution; they are having their churches burnt, being arrested and even killed for their faith.

I have over the past challenged our folks at church about this wondering if Persecution will ever reach our shores.

The other morning I was awake about 4.30 am just before dawn and was thinking about this. I know I should have been asleep but its a sign of getting old.

For the first time I realized that here in England the Christian church has been persecuted and is being persecuted almost to the point of extinction. We have listened to the lie that we should turn the other cheek, be silent when our faith and lifestyle is being undermined when legislation so hard fought for by our forefathers is systematically undermined and repealed.

Christian leaders are frightened to speak about what we believe. The days of Political Correctness have all but silenced our Christian heritage. Minority groups with loud voices change our fundamental laws and we remain silent. Is that persecuted ? It sure is!

We need to wake up before it is too late. There needs to be an audible loud Christian voice in our nation. Our Church denominations need to raise up a public voice for our views and shout and shout it from the roof tops.