Around the World in 88 Years -E Book - Arthur Burt

ly that the message the Spirit of God gives me is “Prepare, prepare!”The whole issue is not having revival, but handling it —not how much of the presence of God can I have, but how muchcan I handle to the glory of God.Breaking the alabaster jarWhen we announced the first convention we were planning atour home in Wales, people wanted to know what the programwas.“There is no program. We’re having a ‘1 Corinthians 14’ convention.”“Who are your speakers?” they asked.“We haven’t got any,” I told them.“Oh, I see. You are going to do all the preaching, are you?”“No,” I explained. “I am the number one enemy of the wholeoperation if I do the preaching. If I cast my shadow on the water,will the fish come? This is a time when everyone will minister asthe Holy Spirit directs.”Surely, the first objective of this kind of meeting is to get me outof the picture, and for everyone attending to get themselves outof the picture. It is a fine, sensitive operation for the Lord to keepa man in the picture, while in the man’s heart he is out and theLord is in.At convention time, the people came from Northern Scotland,Guernsey in the Channel Islands, Florida, and as far away as Australia.We learned one thing. Oil isn’t ladled out of rock, it has tobe drilled out. Our problem is that we are hard-hearted, whilethe Word of God says, “…harden not your hearts.” (Heb 4:7)Sadly, everything the church claims to be over, she is really under.Sin often has dominion over us. Sin, divorce, disease, financialand emotional bankruptcy are all evidence that the birthrightGod has given us is not yet ours experientially. The strugglingchurch has not yet entered into what she should have, becauseshe cannot handle it for the glory of God.231