Overwhelming Power
Overwhelming Power
I dreamt last night that I was standing on the sand at a huge beach; the water's edge was far away and the water was intensely blue. In spite of the distance, I was able to see a headland and observed huge waves breaking against its rocks. I realised that these waves were going to reach me, far up the beach. When the waves did arrive, they were overwhelmingly massive and powerful. Like a massive storm-surge, they engulfed the whole beach. The waves caught me and carried me at a great height towards the edge of the sand and the land. When the waves broke against the land, I was thrown out and into the air. But I did not land on the ground; I fell back into the sea.
The 20th C has been typified by wave upon wave of the Holy Spirit breaking over the earth. His 1990s outpouring signalled the beginning of the end; the start of His final effusion. What can we do now, but pray, "Come, Holy Spirit".
Personally, I am grateful that this last great awakening is never going to recede, and we will never again find ourselves beached or left high and dry. Waves of the Lord's glory and power will continue to roll in and go on beating against the citadels of sin and empires of evil, until they are all demolished and until He takes His Throne on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
"Times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord ... that He may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you." (Acts 3.19-20)
"I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land fountains of water." (Isaiah 41.18)
"And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not act upon them, will be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and burst against that house; and it fell, and great was its fall." (Matthew 7.26-27)
