A Word for Pastors and Priests in the UK

Jerry Bowers Mar 02, 2006

I want to preface this word to clergy with this acknowledgment. I have been an ordained pastor for 21 years. I love and serve alongside other pastors. This word is a special call to clergy from God’s heart to see a great spiritual awakening led by the pastors and priests.

On the evening of February 28 while in prayer, the Lord showed me England (The U.K.) from a balcony over looking this nation. I saw a pack of barking dogs who were raising a great noise. The Lord said to me, “Many of my shepherds have become as barking dogs. They do not understand My words or speak with clean lips. I’m going to drop hot coals into the Churches. I’m going to touch the lips of my servants with coals from the altar. The people will tremble before My holy presence as did Isaiah who saw me high and lifted up. (Isaiah 6:1-8) My people will tremble as in the day they gathered at Mt. Sinai. (Exodus 19)

I saw an angel drop hot coals into the communion cup during a communion service at a church service. The water began to boil, and I could hear the sound of the hot coal touching the wine. I saw many church services where the pastors read Isaiah 6:1-8 before serving the communion cup. As the cup was being shared the names of God were being spoken out in the hearing of the congregation. As this took place, the “Fear of the Lord” fell on each church. I had a sense that the Lord is calling His people to gather to Him to restore them and speak to them as He did at Mt. Sinai – only this time the gathering place is communion. In the story of this gathering at Mt. Sinai, the people were to wash their clothes and be s anctified the day before. There was a special time of preparation for the priests and the people. (see Exodus 19:14, 22). I have a sense that the Lord is giving a call for a special communion service in the U.K. He will bless those pastors and priests who will seek His face and call the people before the Lord as shown. When the angel of the Lord touched Isaiah’s lips with a hot coal from the altar He announced, “Your sin is purged from you.” This visitation is for the purpose of restoring God’s people.

One of the greatest needs today for the Church is to rediscover the presence of God. Like the prophet Isaiah there is a great need for us to have a fres h encounter with God. Isaiah found himself standing in the presence of a holy God. He saw him high and lifted up in the temple. He saw the angels surrounding the holy throne and heard them cry, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory. And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke. Then I said: ‘Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, The Lord of hosts.’ Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth with it, and said, ‘Behold, this has touched your lips; Your iniquity is taken away and your sin purged.’ Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ Then I said, ‘Here am I! Send me.’ Then He said, go, tell this people .”(Isaiah 6:1-9)

Isaiah was to take his fresh encounter and go speak to the people about their own need to see God and have their sins purged. The spiritual leaders of the U.K. are being called to a time of sanctification. A time to seek the Lord in preparation for a visitation of God. If we new for certain that the creator of the universe was going to visit our church this coming week, would we not altar the normal order of things to welcome and prepare for his visit? The Lord of hosts is announcing His intentions to visit each congregation in the U.K who will prepare for His visit. Let us consecrate ourselves and seek his face. The Lord said one more thing to m e about His visitation at communion, “The people will tremble before My presence as they did at Mt. Sinai.” (Exodus 20:18-20)

Scriptures for study and meditation: Exodus Chapter 19 and Chapter 20:18-20, Isaiah 6:1-9

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