Set Your Face as Flint
Here’s a Word for all the prophets out there.
The LORD took me to the word ‘flint’ this morning. I had heard it the previous Sunday, and for some reason it had stuck in my memory and just wouldn’t go away. So I looked it up and this is what the Word says:-
“Then He said to me: “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them. For you are not sent to a people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, but to the house of Israel, not to many people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have listened to you. But the house of Israel will not listen to you, because they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted. Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads. Like adamant stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; do not be afraid of them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.” Moreover He said to me: “Son of man, receive into your heart all My words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears. And go, get to the captives, to the children of your people, and speak to them and tell them, ‘Thus says The LORD God,’ whether they hear, or whether they refuse.” Ezekiel 3:4-11.
The LORD then had me exchange the words “house of Israel” for “United Kingdom Church”!
He then showed me a castellated ruin, rather like one of the monasteries which were destroyed when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the mid-1500’s.
“This is the state of much of My Church today — desperately clinging on to whatever is left of their heritage, but failing at almost every turn, crumbling away every day!
They spurn My Prophets. They won’t even listen to them — but you, son of man, shall be My Spokesperson to them.”
You may well protest, “But Lord, I have no platform, I have no real reputation. Why will they listen to me?”
I heard The LORD chuckle — “Did you not read what I just showed you?
Did you not read about being like flint?
Did you not see where they may hear and they may refuse to listen?
Have you not said to people that your job is to deliver My Words — how they are received, is none of your business?”
The LORD then showed me this verse — “Is not My word like a fire?” says The LORD, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” Jeremiah 23:29.
“I AM using you as a hammer to break their refusal to hear prophets.
The strength and flint-like countenance will serve you well and will demonstrate my seriousness to a hard hearted people.
As I said to Jeremiah, “Therefore prepare yourself and arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Do not be dismayed before their faces, lest I dismay you before them.
For behold, I have made you this day a fortified city and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land — against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
They will fight against you, But they shall not prevail against you. For I AM with you,” says The LORD, “to deliver you.” (Jeremiah 1:17-19)” says The LORD!
~ 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.
God bless you, Minister Chris Bennett, bidding you peace and blessings! I respectfully say, that some who may not be listening to prophecy, is due to many of the false prophets on the rise. When I began to fiercly chase God first with a fiery passion, making Him first Priority in my life, only then could I test the spirits by the Spirit.
We are living in the time and era, where there are many false prophets rising, disguised in sheeps clothing, but ravening wolves, preying on naive and gullible, new born sherp in the Body of Jesus Christ. I feel when a person begins to chase prophecies, prophets,to the extent of idolizing these figures, opposed to seeking God with their whole mind, heart and soul, presenting their body as a living sacrifice, is where a believer can fall to the flesh.
There is nothing wrong with discerning, embracing the words of a true prophet, but we must be careful, as to who we as children of God, lend our ears and heart to. Because at the end of our journey, we all have to be give accountability for everything we did or didn’t do on earth, even being slothful we fully seeking God to be able to truly discern every spirit, by the Spirit of God, for there must be a great difference between false and true prophets, something that identifies the true prophets with the heart of God, having the heart, of Jesus Christ, God’s powerful Anointing operating, where there is no wondering.
Amen!
Wow! YES Abba Father. YES Sir.
Amen, Brother.