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Full House

9 July 2004

I hope you might find the following two dreams of interest and possibly instructive:

1) "I'm going into the Thames picture theatre (where the Elim Church used to hold awesome revival meetings in the 90's) for a Holy Spirit meeting. The abbot who founded Kopua Monastery (where I lived as a novice in the early 70's) is greeting people at the door and handing out little manna cakes. He's not dressed in robes and vestments, but ordinary gardening clothes."

I anticipate the upcoming Spring revival will have the following characteristics which we need to consider aligning ourselves with ahead of time:

a) It is going to be an “out there” revival. That is to say it will take place as much (if not more) out in the community, as in the Church...along the lines of the 1940's Hebridean Revival in the north of Scotland, "The Presence of God was in homes, meadows, moorland...even public roads. 75 percent of converts were gloriously saved before meetings," history records.

Luke 14.16-24 “Go out to the country roads and lanes and make people come in, so that My House may be full.”

b) The next revival will be led by men and women of prayer whose outstanding credential will be their hard-comeby meekness (broken-ness); their strong characters and wills having been completely harnessed by the stronger Will and Nature of Almighty God.

Matthew 21.5 “Here is your King, who comes to you in meekness (the gentleness of great power).”

Isaiah 66.1-2 “But to this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite (broken) of spirit, and who trembles at My Word.”

c) It is going to be a visitation attended not only by signs and wonders and miracles in Jesus' Name...but also on top of this it will be distinctive because of direct and immediate (and hitherto unknown and mind-boggling) interventions of Heaven itself.

John 1.50-52 “Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these. You shall see the heavens opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man.”

The second dream is as follows:

2) "I'm waiting at a railway station to catch a train to make the last-leg of a journey. Once on board and seated, a Maori man nearby begins to call out, "This seat's like a coffin." He's approached by a group dressed in religious robes and vestments. They force his tongue down the back of his throat to silence him and then kill him."

This is an appalling dream which speaks about an appalling situation we must face up to in New Zealand. Up until now the Christian community (especially us, the leaders) have tended to favour exotic (imported) spiritual action and ministry over (and sometimes against) the indigenous (what the Holy Spirit raises up and does Himself out of this nation's "good soil". Luke 8.15)

Everything God does is excellent...overseas and here...and ought to be esteemed and admired and received as such.

James 1.17 “Every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights.”

But what kind of gratitude and reponsibility are we showing forth and exercising when we consistently crave the inheritance of others, and neglect (even despise) what is our own? We need to learn to esteem what the Lord does in our own backyard.

Even now the first, tender "green-shoots" of a new revival in Aotearoa-New Zealand are being brutally trampled underfoot by Christian leaders (both here and overseas) pre-empting God's Word and Work in their eagerness for action...or could it be lust to advance their own cause and ministry?

John 1.11 “He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.”