Isn’t it funny how the smallest thing can start a train of thinking off that really doesn’t have any perceivable start or end?

Nothing in the little thing gives any clue as to the importance of, as in this particular case, the spoken word!

So it was this afternoon, in an exchange with a dear friend, that we were talking generally about the weekend Linda and I had just spent in the Welsh Borders. We had been speaking at a meeting on Friday evening, and again at a small fellowship meeting on Saturday morning.

The presence of God at both meetings was very strong, and we knew The LORD was meeting people where they were, and in whatever state of preparation they were at.

Yet it’s the memory of His presence that lingers. It clings. Although there were no bodies laying where the Spirit of God slew them, there were tears and laughter, and you knew something was absolutely right in that meeting.

In the exchange I had, my correspondent said four little words, and those four words struck me as Holy Spirit confirmed them.

“The Fire is Lit!” was all that was said. My heart did a somersault and my stomach churned. I was dizzy with the presence of The LORD all over me.

“Oh come on LORD — do you really mean that?”

“The Fire is Lit!”

“In our little Meeting?”

“The Fire is Lit!”

“Are we saying the Welsh Borders?”

“The Fire is Lit!”

Then He added, “One small Fire, in one small place, is all I need!”

“Really, truly, The Fire is Lit!???”

“What if I started a Fire there, and another ten miles away, and another ten miles from there? What if I started Fires, tiny one Flame Fires, in places the length and breadth of Britain?

What if I started such Fires all over Europe, all over America, all over the world? — All at the same time?”

By now my mind was racing, boggling, doing things I don’t begin to comprehend. Had we really been present at one of many sites of birthing of revival? My heart raced too!

As I slowed down a bit, I prayed, I sought God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — and I had peace.

I received assurance that all was well, all was under control, all was going to Plan. He reminded me of the encouraging words we had both given for others at those meetings, and for encouraging words we had both received too.

I looked back at some of the responses I had also received — from Spain, from America, and other places too, including the United Kingdom!

I was reminded of Elijah complaining to God about being the only one left — only to be told of 7000 others The LORD had hidden who, like Elijah, had not bowed the knee to Baal.

Yes, we really are a microscopic portion of God=s end-time people, and He is moving with others too.

It’s very comforting to feel part of a much larger Group, all devoted to roughly the same aims as oneself.

But it’s even more encouraging to understand that Yes, The Fire if Lit! and it has started to burn.

HALLELUJAH \o/

 

~ Chris G. Bennett

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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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