Last weekend saw a kind of action-reply – albeit up a level or two! – of what the Lord provided for this blog’s 11th birthday in November 2022 re 11th Hour Prophets, even starting with another God-incidental ‘bumping’ into Veronika West in Portsmouth….

Time for the Church to Roar

Rise of Holy Breakers & Disrupters to Challange Religious Structures.

Acceleration of the Church into Maturity

Shifting Away from the ‘Pastor/Teacher’ Model of Church into 5 Foyld

Time for the Growth of House Church.

Shifting & Change for the Church. Reformation Level Change.

After arriving on Friday evening at Oasis church in Portsmouth I went to its assembly hall and, as the only entry door faces the stage at the far end of the room, I dropped my shoulder bag onto a chair on the nearby rear row and turned on my heels to get a drink from the coffee-room but was very surprised to hear, “Richard, you should be sitting at the front!” – I turned and saw Veronika behind me.

As I’d not been looking into the hall I’d not seen her approaching, presumably having come up the centre aisle from the front-row and en-route to the ‘green room’. In fact, I did intend sitting on the second row anyway, so after our greeting I put bag and jacket there before getting the drink.

The evening started with a brief welcome to delegates and introduction of Veronika and then WE TOOK OFF IN WORSHIP led by guitarist Paul accompanied by the keyboard singer and a drummer into this song of 1994 by Robin Mark….

THEN WOW, AS HOLY SPIRIT CAME I needed to grip the top of front-row chairs in order to stay standing, AS THOUGH I WAS HOLDING ONTO A FLYING CHARIOT !!

I was reminded of prophet Elijah’s ascent into heaven as a whirlwind blew AND THEN COMES THE RENOWNED CHORUS…

WHICH REMINDED ME OF BEING SHOWN (1995)..

As recounted in Triple Validation of The Life-changing Reality of Jesus’ Visitation, “On a healing retreat years later, a minister told me God would show me something after lunch. Indeed, after lunch a stranger who’d been seated at my table confided that the Lord told her to show me something she greatly treasured.

It was a photo taken, it was claimed, from an aircraft over a thunderstorm. When developed, the photo bore an image of Jesus Christ, as though standing within clouds. However, the facial features were hazy, not defined. It was exactly like Jesus in my dream because I’d not seen His face. (I recall dark, hazy clouds at the foot of the image. This one is published by Bible Probe.)

Upon seeing this photo my legs gave way – I couldn’t stand but fell into a nearby chair! My companion said I went so white she thought I was going to faint or fall. Yet, just how did a stranger know to show me this photo? I’d not divulged such a personal dream – she simply said, “It’s the Lord’s doing”.

NOW thirty years later, after many minutes worship leader Paul moves into a song new to me, yet the words directly relate to what I was sensing, PLUS my recalling 2 Kings 2 account of Elijah not dying but being taken alive into heaven – a song about believers’ resurrection as in the context of today’s (Monday) BibleGateway Verse of the Day Romans 6:23 ^‘For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord’ .

‘For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection.’ (Romans 6:5, NKJV)

At the closure of the lengthy superb Spirit-filled worship I was reminded of the verse in The Apocalypse on all heaven falling silent for half-an-hour, as New King James Bible states:

Seventh Seal: Prelude to the Seven Trumpets

8 When He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. ² And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.

Now it so happens that on the ‘morrow Mark Iles was to refer many times in his teaching to trumpets being sounded!

Also, worship leader Paul later told me he didn’t have a reason for this sequence of the first two songs, so Holy Spirit must have inspired it. I shared what happened to me and showed him the above photo.

And that was only the start as lots more personal aspects were to follow!!

It proved to be an especially powerful TIME TO BREAKOUT and left me feeling spaced out!!

Continued in next post >>>