It's In The Air

It’s In The Air

You can smell it. You can feel it. You can’t see it of course because it’s in the air. It is something that sends shivers of dread down some people’s spine. It is something that sends shivers of expectant exhilaration down other’s spine. What is it?

It is REVIVAL.

A great move of God will always polarise both the sacred and the secular. People either love it or hate it. Paradoxically, some both love it and hate it. Love it because it’s a move of God but hate the disruption it brings with it.

I don’t know this for certain but, judging by the comments overheard at church today, there is a high expectancy among ordinary church folk of something happening very soon. They are using terms like ‘smell it’, ‘taste it’, or ‘feel it’. There is almost a certainty of God being “up to something” – and in our area – maybe even in our church.

Are we ready for such an extraordinary happening in our own back yard? Not a chance, but then, I doubt anyone has ever been ready or prepared for revival. Nevertheless God, in His perfect timing, will send revival to an unprepared and unready church, to people who will supernaturally adapt almost immediately to the new way of things. It is the excitement of this thought that is generating such a feeling that it’s “in the air”.

People who have not felt or seen anything before are suddenly becoming aware of the heightened activity in the heavenlies. People who would normally be very wary of the prophetic, and even more wary of the demonic, are becoming excited by what they hear from the prophets and by what they sense going on around them. There seems to be an increased expectancy from almost everywhere in our church and I am regarding us as a minute microcosm of the whole church.

Why would good solid steady Christians, not unused to the prophetic, but certainly not very used to it, suddenly start eagerly devouring prophecy? Why would a normally quiet country town congregation suddenly start buzzing with anticipation whenever a prophet comes forward with a word from God? Why would a group of people, not particularly well versed in deliverance ministry, suddenly become excited by the news of wars and battles in the heavenlies?

Something is stirring them. That something can only be the thought of imminent revival. If only the watchmen and prophets had caught hold of this, then I would not be surprised.  But it’s not just them is it? It’s the people in the pews who have caught this too – the ordinary every day Christian people who represent 99% of our churches. Maybe they don’t know yet what it is they are sensing. All they know is that there’s something in the air – something big.

Time to trim your wick and fill the lamp with oil – Get ready the Bridegroom is coming. Maybe not physically yet but certainly soon. Revival then rapture – exciting isn’t it? Makes you shudder in anticipation of the days to come.

I’m ready Lord, and so is my wife. So, I hope are millions of others.