Shake Rattle and Roll !!

Shake Rattle and Roll !!

Not many of you remember Bill Haley and the Comets do you ?? If you do then your age is showing. Perhaps you’ve heard of him and maybe heard his old original rock n roll tracks. It was about 55 years ago when he blared this old number out from juke boxes all over America – the world even. What about the Holy Spirit version of Shake Rattle and Roll. That was released oh, maybe, about, just under 2000 years ago. We can read about it in Acts 4:31 “After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit. They were bold when they spoke God's word.” It is only recorded as happening once at that time, but it also certainly happened during the Hebridean Revival of 1948/9 and possibly other times as well.

Can you imagine – the building in which you are praying being shaken? You all rush outside to see what other buildings the “earthquake” hit – only to find that there’s been no earthquake and whatever happened only affected the building in which you were praying. Suddenly, as you realise this, the Holy Spirit hits all of you and fills you with a new filling or anointing as we would call it these days. Then over the next few days, when you excitedly gather in the evenings, perhaps for a meal, you swap stories of this new “boldness” that has come into your witnessing and preaching. Oh the excitement – the sheer Holy Spirit filled excitement of it all.

One of my great dreams is to see this happen again – and again – and again in these present days. I want to be there when the Holy Spirit is so moved by our prayers that once again “the place where they were meeting was shaken. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit” “ When this happens”, says the Lord, “Then be assured that I am not far away. Be assured that I am on my way and that I am bringing revival with Me. I do not say these things lightly”, Says the Lord God Almighty, “For I am that I am – My words will stand forever and My promises are true.”

Brothers and sisters, I see the time very fast approaching when we will expect the building in which we are praying to be shaken. We will expect healings and miracles. We will expect answers to prayer sooner rather than later. If we ask little we will get little. Like the apostles in Acts, let us become bold in our preaching and in our praying. Let us pray for much and expect much – because the Lord our God is waiting for us to show Him our faith in His Word. Let us begin to, metaphorically, shake, rattle, and roll and let the Kingdom of God be advanced as never before. Let us dance and sing and praise and worship and pray with a joy and expectancy that is more than we can ever dream or imagine. Let us shake the heavens so that God begins to shake the earth – starting with us in our prayer rooms.

What a moment that will be. What excitement there will be. The Holy Spirit will be dancing for joy with us as we worship the one and only Lord God Almighty. The Lord will, His Word promises this, send “signs and wonders following”. Then unsaved people, and even the Church, will start to take the Gospel message seriously. Then we may begin to see revival.

Oh hallelujah Lord – haste the day \o/