It’s time for awakening, to our responsibilities and to our calling as a church. To hear the voice of the One who raises the Dead, who speaks Life and calls into life those things that were unspoken, those things that are dead. He calls us forth. Into new things, as yet unspoken.

He calls us into newness of life and wants good things for us.

I’ve just come back from a visit to York. Awesome city. AWESOME! I loved it, full of open sky and rich history. Full of people who are riding their bikes – which is good by any measure.

There are new things for us as a nation. I feel that Revival of the society, the community of church will come.

I sense that we will have to change our itineraries, change our expectations and enter into a new understanding of life  – full life – that God wants for us. In the same way as the King diverted the river to create a Fish pond at the Red Gate in York, and it disrupted life and changed the landscape, so we will have to respond to an influx of “water” – the Holy Spirit’s life as huge numbers of people come into “the church”.

People expecting things to be different, hoping for new things; expecting us to react and respond to the difficulties of life around us for so many.

People will make demands of us because they will have a new revelation of the power and presence of God that is not bounded by previous expectations of what church has been – but fixed in their eyes will be a hope for what church should be. Their eyes will be “undivided” unwavering. Hope-full. Inspired by encounter in the secret place with Him who opens the eyes of the blind and enables them – us – to see.

“If he can do this, why shouldn’t He also do x and y and provide for those in need around us?”. So the flow will begin and continue over the ground that is our nation. Precious people, men and women – perhaps especially women – will flood the land with His ideas, ideas that have their source in His Presence.