Opposition to Lakeland from ‘Christians’

One of the saddest commentaries on what has happened to the Lakeland revival outpouring is the opposition which has come from other Christians.

It is no secret that Christians are divided into lots of different little camps, hence all of the denominations that exist today. But even within those camps there are lots of little sub-camps.

This division simply speaks to the carnal and infant state of the Christian church in the world today. As the Apostle Paul pointed out:

1Co 3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

1Co 3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

If anyone should Google ‘The Lakeland Revival’ you will probably come across more anti-Lakeland sites than you will find pro-Lakeland sites. These are all put up by different ‘christians’ who don’t recognize the working of the Holy Spirit at Lakeland because God is not doing what they think He should be doing in a genuine revival. They give Satan far more credit than they give God when it comes to this matter.

The opposition borders on fanaticism from many camps, suggesting this is the ‘great deception’ and that Bentley is at the least a false prophet. Many of these sites are put up by modern day Pharisees who are led by the same spirit who could not recognize Jesus when He was standing in front of them.

These self-appointed experts are relying on their intellect to measure and judge things which are spiritual and as we all know the Spirit is not subject to our intellect.

Some people who fashion themselves as revival experts think that if the revival today does not look like the Welsh revival, for example, then it could not possibly be of God. One of the first ‘experts’ out of the gate with a book renouncing Lakeland insists that unless people are crying out in repentance it can not be a true revival. Of course, he misses the point that the people coming are already believers and may very well already be in right standing with God and not in need of repenting as did the non-believing coal miners of the Welsh revival days.

Others can simply not believe that God could use a guy like Bentley and don’t seem to remember such words as Grace, Forgiveness and Old Things have passed away…..

Others get all upset over the references to ‘female’ angels and the like to support their opposition to Todd and his ability to actually lead a true revival. These same people get all upset any time God who is Supernatural actually does something supernatural! Since it does not happen in their church it can’t possibly be of God can it??

Is Bentley perfect? Hardly, but if the LORD is going to have to wait until one of us reaches perfection before He can move, then we are all doomed! For example those crying out for repentance as the sign of a true revival …. would not have any idea how to operate in the gifts of the Spirit, so a revival they would ‘lead’ would result in everyone weeping and wailing before the altar and little else.

Sadly, it would seem that maturity is a long way off from the confines of the church right now for if we were truly spiritual we would at least recognize the Holy Spirit and then as the Bible tells us, we would pray one for another. In this case we would be praying the LORD would keep Bentley straightened out and that for once, the Holy Spirit could show up and bring us into a level of maturity we are all sadly missing.

Jesus made the comment that a house divided against itself could not stand . . . do you think Satan was listening? He has been able to keep us divided for centuries and as long as we are not led by the Holy Spirit but we insist on following some man, we most likely will remain divided all over the place.

Pray the LORD will change His mind and return in fullness to Lakeland and finish what He started the first of April.