Friday, 23 October 2009

A Word for England

by Glenice Mills

Again the Lord says, “So, Who do you say I am?”

The Lord said to me regarding England, “You will be brought to your knees, but it is time to get up off your knees.”

I asked the Lord what He meant by this. He showed me a picture of thousands of people on their knees, in an apparently humble position, but it was a false position. It was a position of people on their knees in false religion, false humility and a false pious state, while meanwhile devastation and destruction was happening all around them. It had a sense of exclusivity to it. The Lord showed me a people crippled, unable to move, unable to be effective, struggling to even make a move forward. They were hemmed in, stuck firm, unwilling and unable to move.

The Lord declares over England, ‘Get up off your knees, arise and make a stand, make a stand for righteousness, make a stand for justice, speak out, speak out, speak out!’ How much longer do you want to stay stuck on your knees? Arise, get up off your knees, for I will bring you to your knees in repentance for those who desire to seek me with all their heart, for those who desire to know My heart for England, for those who choose to carry My burden for this nation.

It is a time for repentance to come to England.

2 Chronicles 7:14,15 - "If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place."

It is time for repentance. For those who are truly called to stand in the gap, to intercede, and there is an urgency to do this like no other time in history.

1 Kings 18:21 - "For the Lord says, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.”"

2 Corinthians 6: 14-18 - "Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.  For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said, “I will dwell in them and walk among them, I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Therefore come out from among them, and be separate says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.”
“I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters,” says the Lord Almighty."

There is a dividing coming between those that are truly His and those who are not. England is in, and coming into, a greater time of unsettling, turmoil, and with destruction happening that will shake the foundations of the ‘stiff upper lip’ thinking and feeling. It will be a time when the masks will be removed, when pretence will be shaken off, and when compromise will be exposed. People will wonder what is happening, fear will rise up in a manner that has never been revealed before.  God is shaking up the idolatry; the union that has taken place with good and evil, where there has been a muddying of the waters to such an extent that confusion is a ruling spirit over this nation. The church has been a party to this compromise.

Weather patterns are going to get worse, there will be greater extremes with storms, snow storms, heat, wind and rain at such ferocity that the damage will be extensive. There will be huge financial cost caused by these weather patterns on top of the recession that is taking place at this time. Many believers will be challenged in their faith. Those that have a depth of relationship with the Lord will look at the challenge head on and be strengthened and encouraged as they pray and see the hand of God move on their behalf. Others will fall prey to fear and unbelief and turn their hearts away from God. Lawlessness will increase, and there will be a great uprising among the youth who will gather together and stir up such trouble that has never been seen. The rebellion and anti-christ attitude and behaviour will increase as hardship intensifies. There will be great loss of lives in these uprisings which will be a clarion call for the church to wake up, to repent where they have compromised and come into agreement with evil. It will be a time as ones come together and pray, they will see the Lord break down the walls of division between denominations and begin to rebuild on the Rock, Jesus Christ.

Psalm 20:7-9 - "Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God. They have bowed down and fallen; But we have risen and stand upright. Save Lord! May the King answer us when we call."

This is not a time to trust in tangible things, or trust in things done by our own hands. It is time to trust in the Lord. Get up off your knees, rise up, stand upright, and cry out for the salvation of the King. There is a line being drawn in the sand where the Lord would say, ‘Whom do you choose? Will you choose me or choose what feels comfortable? Will you choose to walk in His ways or in your own ways? Will you choose to stay in your place of comfort, on your knees, appearing pious or will you stand up and speak Truth, confront that which is evil in your own lives, and also what is operating over your nation?

Deuteronomy 30:15-18 - “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you possess. But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them, I announce to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land.

This is a time to choose: choose life or death, blessing or cursing. I sense an urgency, and there is a window of opportunity for choices to be made. God knows the heart of those that are His. He is looking for ones who will come out, be separate, be followers of His ways: Who will choose His life and blessings and are willing to stand out, be different, be prepared to be persecuted for His name’s sake.

Change will come, England will become a Christian nation again,  however it is dependent on His followers making a stand for righteousness.

This involves humility: walking away from compromise, being available to pray, be used of Him to speak, and be vessels of change to bring reformation to a nation that is going down a road that leads to death. Don’t follow that way, the way of death, choose life, so you and your children shall live. It is about God’s inheritance coming back to a nation that God’s heart desires to come back to Him.

‘Return to Me’, says the Lord!