I have now had a week to digest the One Event and, for me, the underlying message was ‘Go!’. This was crystallized on the Monday of the event when in the morning Andy Elms, and in the evening Glynn Barrett, delivered pretty much the same message concerning our responsibility to reach the lost.
This was supplemented by Dave Smith’s talk on knowing the seasons we are in and his reminder to us of the Smith Wigglesworth prophecy of 1947. If you are not familiar with this prophecy, the text of it is below.
“During the next few decades there will be two distinct moves of the Holy Spirit across the church in Great Britain. The first move will affect every church that is open to receive it and will be characterized by a restoration of the baptism and gifts of the Holy Spirit. The second move of the Holy Spirit will result in people leaving historic churches and planting new churches. In the duration of each of these moves, the people who are involved will say ‘This is the great revival’. But the Lord says ‘No, neither is this the great revival but both are steps towards it.
“When the new church phase is on the wane, there will be evidenced in the churches something that has not been seen before: a coming together of those with an emphasis on the Word and those with an emphasis on the Spirit.
“When the Word and the Spirit come together, there will be the biggest movement of the Holy Spirit that the nation, and indeed the world, has ever seen. It will mark the beginning of a revival that will eclipse anything that has been witnessed within these shores, even the Wesleyan and the Welsh revivals of former years. The outpouring of God’s Spirit will flow over from the UK to the mainland of Europe, and from there will begin a missionary move to the ends of the earth.”
When we read such words we cannot help but be stirred in our spirits and encouraged to press on in the work God has given us to do, until we see the fulfillment of Jesus’ purposes for this world, until he comes again.
God bless
Richard