Then the angel of the Lord came to
a small church and said to the pastor, ‘The Lord is with you mighty warrior.’
And the pastor said, ‘If the Lord
is with us why are such wicked things happening in our land. Did we not have mighty outpourings and
revivals in the past but now God has forgotten us and gone to Africa, Asia and Argentina .’
And the angel of the Lord turned
to the pastor and said, ‘Go in the strength of the Lord and take back Britain
from the enemies’ hands.’
‘But Lord,’ the pastor of the
small church said, ‘how can we save Britain?
We are too small and weak. No one
listens to us anymore.’
The Lord answered, ‘I will be with
you and you will overturn all the works of the evil one.’
The pastor said, ‘If I have found
favour in your eyes, give me a sign that it really is you. Please raise someone from the dead as a sign
of new life in your church and this land?’
So they went and found the body of
one of the congregation who had recently died and brought it to the Lord.
The Lord said, ‘Worship me and do
not look upon the dead woman.’
So they looked at the Lord and praised
and worshipped Him. Whilst their eyes
were focussed on the Lord, he stretched forth his staff, touched the dead woman
and life returned to her body. The
people praised and worshipped the Lord with renewed faith and energy, confident
that the Lord could do anything, even deliver Britain from the hand of the enemy
and bring new life to the church and land.
That night the Lord said to the
pastor, ‘Go into the centre of the city, to the main square and there make a
bonfire of all the things the people worship.
So the pastor led his church into
the city centre. There they made a bonfire of televisions, DVD’s, CD’s, computer
games, magazines, books, posters, football scarves and programmes, even
computers, laptops and tablets.
Then in the morning, the people
said, ‘Who made this awful mess and has burned this pile of stuff?’
They investigated and found it was
the pastor and his small church. So they
went and beat on the doors of the church and said, ‘Bring out your pastor. We want to sort him out for burning all the
things we hold dear and are important to us.’
The elders came out and said to
the crowd, ‘What are you getting so worked up about? If all these things are so important and
marvellous, surely they will survive?
Let them contend for themselves and then we will see who is the greatest,
these feeble things or God Almighty?’
The pastor sent around to all the
churches in the city and surrounding area to gather in the local football
stadium. Then he said to the Lord, ‘If
you will save Britain
by my hand, please cause all the seats in the stadium to be wet but the grass
dry.’ And that is what happened. Every seat was soaking wet but the ground
dry.
Then the pastor said to the Lord,
‘Do not be angry with me. Let me ask you
one more thing. Let the grass in the
stadium be wet but all the seats dry.’
That night God did so. All the seats were dry but the grass wet.’
Early in the morning with all the
people from all the churches gathered in the football stadium. The Lord said to
the pastor, ‘You have too many people for me to deliver this nation from the
powers of darkness into your hands. I don’t want you boasting that it was your
prayers and your ideas that delivered Britain but the hand of the Lord.
Tell the people that anyone who feels frightened and intimidated by the
mission, or who really doesn’t think this is their thing may go home.’
So two thirds of the people went
home. But the Lord said to the pastor,
‘There are still too many. I will
separate them. Let all those who have
brought their Bibles stay but all who did not bring the Word of the Lord go
home.’
So the pastor went amongst the
people separating those that honoured the Word of the Lord from the rest. Three hundred had a Bible and the Lord told
the pastor he would use these people to save Britain .
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