The Centenary of Revival on Mainland UK
From 2021 — which The LORD would have me release today.
I learned something the other day about the last time Revival hit mainland Britain.
This week, in March 1921, Hugh Ferguson, minister at London Road Baptist Church in Lowestoft, Suffolk, invited Douglas Brown, another Baptist minister from Balham, London, to preach for a week-long series of meetings in Lowestoft.
The resulting move of God, which started with those meetings, became known as The Fisherman’s Revival.
It lasted several months, at least nine months, and spread as far as Fraserburgh and Wick in Northeast Scotland!
The centenary of that first meeting fell on March 7th 2021, and as I read this, I felt The LORD prompting me.
I recognised the significance of the date — 7th March is in a couple of days time — and I remembered the many Words and Prophecies about the coming Revival, especially those that mentioned a hundred years etc.
I felt a move of The Spirit within me as I thought about it. I felt that this weekend would see the start of a move of God, I won’t label it ‘Revival’, somewhere in mainland Britain.
The word ‘Revival’ is too emotive and carries with it expectations greater than anything we are seeing at the moment!
Having said that, I am now expecting to hear of a ‘move of God’ happening in one or two places around the mainland.
It has started small – some would say insignificant — but I’m expecting to hear of salvations, healings, and a weighty presence of God in these meetings.
I’m being very cautious, because some will want to declare that it started in their Church, and The LORD has already said that no man and no place will be able to claim, this as it will start simultaneously in several places.
Old Wells still need opening again. Old places of Revival still hold and carry the anointing that caused The Spirits flow so many years ago.
Any visit to one of these places will reveal this to the visitor. I believe that many these old places of revival will begin to flow again with the waters of today’s revival.
I hear The LORD calling orders to His Angels. I see them poised expectantly, waiting for us to fulfill our part of the qualifications for Revival.
What are they? A repentant heart. A willing and surrendered spirit. A longing, a yearning to see God move among us today!
No Agenda — except God’s Agenda. No plans — except God’s Plans.
God will move when He sees that WE are ready!
I feel it’s this weekend!
Watch for it! Anticipate it! Expect it! Don’t reject it — it may not return!
We may never be ‘ready’, but God’s Timing isn’t our timing, is it?
Just receive it and welcome it. Release The Holy Spirit to work among you today!
Amen.
~ 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.
Last Saturday, in Tampere Finland, 117 youths responded to the altar call and gave their lives to Jeesus! Halleluja!
May your hope be fullfilled and greatly exceeded! Praying for the brethren all over the world.
Yes, Come Lord Jesus, Fill our gatherings this week end with your presence and the power of your Holy Spirit.
We hunger for you. We thirst for you. Fill our land with yiur praise and glory. Dan