With Revival News, April to June 2006

We really believe in LCMI that this is the time for Cornwall

Remove the Mental Assent... And we have revival!

The devil has given to the Church a substitute for faith which looks and sounds so much like faith some people can't tell the difference = MENTAL ASSENT.
JOHN WESLEY

Journal entry, August 15, 1750:

"I was fully convinced of what I had long suspected,... that the grand reason why the miraculous gifts were so soon withdrawn, was not only that faith and holiness were well nigh lost; but that dry, formal, orthodox men began even then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves, and to decry them all as either madness or imposture."

Modern day Christianity in Cornwall has been birthed in Methodism, not the dead form of mental assent - that is thinking with man's thinking - not the type infiltrated by organisers who look to bind the anointing - but the type which is birthed by the Spirit - the type which the Wesley's and Billy Bray (left) proclaimed - the Christianity of total submission and surrender to Christ Jesus, the type where we no longer live - BUT JESUS! ( I John 4:17)

Having been brought up in a Wesleyan Holiness Mission Hall in Liverpool, my heart cries out for a true Wesleyan revival, this meaning a Church which manifests Christ Jesus, himself and not the thoughts of man. Along my family line is a history of Wesleyan Methodism, my mother Sylvia Griffiths and her sister Rita Horton being Sunday School members of the Newquay Wesleyan Methodist Church marching annually in their white dresses through the streets of 1920's Newquay in a March of Witness.

Further back in my family line my great, great Grandfather Joseph Allen was a Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Teacher and Superintendent for sixty years, being awarded a chair for his service, a chair I would love to find!

There is a generational blessing of Wesleyan holiness within me longing to get out, holiness - that is being the manifestation of Christ Jesus himself; I John 4:17 being the key to all worldwide revivals.

Features of Perfection: John Wesley.

a) Loving God with all one's heart.
b) Loving one's neighbour as oneself.
c) Having the mind that is in Christ.
d) Demonstrating the fruit of the spirit; Gal. 5.
e) Having the restoration of the image of God in the soul which consists of righteousness and true holiness.
f) Having received the experience of God's sanctification in spirit, soul and body - individually consecrated to God.
g) Living a life of praise and thanksgiving to God - knowing one has experienced salvation from all sin

This doctrine is the great depositum, which God has lodged with the people called Methodist, and for the sake of propogating this, chiefly he appears to have raised us up.

Having recently interceded in Cornwall before the great flood of Boscastle, God took me to the Wesleyan Chapel in this great village, once a scene of Wesleyan revival. He took me to the stones of the Chapel and I saw the inscription; Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. The Lord told me that there would be a great meeting in this Chapel which we did with the help of Methodist Minister Andrew Seddon, the Hephzibah Christian Centre at St. Blazey and our wonderful Praise and Worship Band Global Shekinah led by James and Allison Tanner. He showed me the fishermen who had given their all to build this Chapel to the precious glory of Almighty God, God calling us on this night to restore the mantle of Wesley to the county and his doctrine of entire sanctification - the meaning of this being that we no longer live but Christ Jesus himself.

Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

I cannot get away from this call, God calling me to restore the Wesleyan heritage in Cornwall. I hear stories of near empty chapels telling stories of times past rather than manifesting the glory and power of our Lord Jesus Christ today. As I write the anointing of God fills me for this task to bring revival back to Cornwall, a revival greater than those of the Wesley's and Bray although it is right that we honour these mantles, it is also right that we move in the call of Jesus to perform the greater things as we call on the double portion this day; John 14; II Kings 2:8,9

And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground. And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

John Wesley in a sermon given on 3rd. April 1741 declared;

This faith is not a mental assent to the teaching that "Jesus is the Christ" (1 John 5:1), such a faith, at its best, would be dead. True Christian faith is more than mental assent to Scriptural truth; it is a disposition which God has wrought in the heart. It is a sure confidence that, through Christ, we are forgiven and are reconciled to God. We do not have "confidence in the flesh" with its works of righteousness and religion (Philippians 3:3), but accept that Christ alone brought salvation.

God is calling a divide in the Methodist Church in Cornwall, between those of head knowledge and those of the heart. There is to be a revolution in the Methodist Church of Cornwall, a turning away from the organisers who decide what God is to bless - to those who are on their knees before God, bringing signs, wonders and miracles to the people as Wesley did on his apostolic ministry travels. God has not changed, Jesus compassion is still the same, and we are to manifest this compassion, with the heart of Jesus and not the thinking of man. Wesley was no cessationist and neither should a Methodist meeting not manifest the gifts and fruit of the Spirit confirming not the academic but the anointed preaching of the Word of God; Mark 16.

ROMANS 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Join us in this great call...

My last visit to Revival Cornwall involved meeting with those called to pray and minister in this land and now God is saying to meet Methodist Ministers and Ministers sympathetic to the call of reviving the Methodist Church, to restore the mantle of Wesley and have the double portion not only manifesting upon those in Methodist chapels but upon the whole body of Christ, our oneness not being as people but in the Spirit, speaking the words of Christ Jesus as the one body of Christ; Eph. 5:27-32; John 17.