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MICHAEL MARCEL

Biography

I was born in 1949 and had a privileged upbringing, stable home, boarding school from the age of 7 etc.

I became a chartered accountant and then went to London Business School in 1982 to get an MBA. After that I had my own consultancy/book-keeping business, going half time around 2000 and then fully retiring in 2020.

I came to the Lord in 1987 and attended St Paul’s Onslow Square Church, a plant from Holy Trinity Brompton, for about ten years. During this time my life was changed through the Holy Spirit’s outpouring in 1994, called the Toronto Blessing. 

In my different stages of ministry I have been so blessed by clear guidance from the Lord and then prophetic words over me that confirmed what I was to do. It has made the last 23 years very fulfilling.

Around 2000 I was in a John Arnott meeting, when during the worship the Lord told me to fast for 40 days. I was not keen and questioned what I had heard, but I went ahead with a 40 day juice fast. I found it unexpectedly easy; I assume because I was being obedient. Just after the fast ended I had a dream where I was standing in front of church and a woman came up the aisle and told me that the Lord was going to show me my ministry!

A few days later I was at an Intercessors conference in Colorado Springs, and there were several instances when the subject of “Wells” came up. I saw wells in a book, on a bus, in a dream and I had a couple of prophetic words; all of which indicated that I was meant to pray open the wells of the nation, but I did not know where they were!

The only place of significance that I knew about was the Synod of Whitby, where the nation became Catholic. So I went there to pray, but I realised that this was one of the enemies strongholds rather than a “Well’. After that I was wondering how to find out where the wells were when my brother rang and asked if I would help him in his business.

So God’s work was forgotten for about three years until Julie Anderson, a leading intercessor, rang me to ask where the “Wells” were – oops! From that moment to this I have been working on the task the Lord gave me, including recording everything on this website so that future generations will not have to repeat the work. I would not recommend delaying action on a word from the Lord like I did.

First, I had to find out where the “Wells” were, which involved a lot of research. Then I would travel around the country praying open the wells. I travelled to about 1,500 places in all; taking springs and summers most years to do this. In view of the large number of “Wells” to visit I would pray all the way to the site and then get out of the car, claim the land for Christ, declare the “Well” open and then drive on to the next one. This took me to virtually every part of the UK and it was such a privilege to see our beautiful nation. There were often God encounters when I was touring around and sometimes the Lord revealed something exciting.

Around 2007 I was at the International House Of Prayer in Kansas City and was walking towards the book shop when I felt the Lord say that I needed to write a book. Well, this shocked me as I am no writer and my use of the English language is not very creative. I walked around the book shop and said to the Lord, “What on earth can I write about? Look at all these books, every subject under the sun has been written about. Anyway, I do not know the Bible nearly well enough.” In response He told me to write on what I was passionate about. I considered what that was and remembered my life verse was Ephesians 4:11-12, about equipping the saints for works of service. 

This was followed by two or three prophetic words that I would write books, including a trilogy.

So, in 2008 I published my first book. “It is Time to Step Out in Your Calling.”

In March 2014 I was in Scotland and a prophet from the US picked me out of the small congregation and told me that I had to do vignettes on revival for young people. After looking up what a “vignette” was I placed a lot of importance on this “word” as some years before, a Scot, who I met up with at the grave of a “Forgotten Hero”, filmed me as I was telling him the story of this hero and he said I should do some presentation work. 

I put this at the back of mind and then three years later my friend and now video man/editor, prophesied the same thing over me. This time I decided to look into the idea of doing videos, but decided that doing vignettes (3-5 minutes) would not work. When telling the life of a “Forgotten Hero” you need longer than 5 minutes to do justice to the achievements of the subject of each story.    Shortly after that I had two prophesies from senior US prophets saying much the same thing. So ever since then I have been doing videos each summer, switching from the lives of revivalists to filming the stories of different revivals.

This week (July 2023) I have had another prophecy, this time from Cindy Jacobs, again a senior US Prophet, saying that I have to get back into full time ministry, write a book on revivals and get involved in the harvest. This confirmed a prophecy I had many years ago that I was going to record the coming revival – now that is a job I long to do!

 

UK WELLS

Vision

That UKwells.org will be a tool for the Body of Christ. To date, most places of significant Spiritual interest (‘wells’) are known only by a few people locally, we are hoping that UKwells.org will change all that. It is our vision to see as much information as possible on this website, about how and where God has moved across the United Kingdom in the past, so that Saints will know what happened in any particular area where they are ministering. That Saints will pray more effectively over an area to open up the ‘well’ and usher in revival.

There are two parts to this website: UK Christian Heritage and Spiritual Wells

1 UK Christian Heritage

Christians all over the UK have either forgotten or are not interested in our Christian Heritage. It is very important that we remember what the great saints in the past did because: Every time we speak or read about our Christian Heritage we are giving testimony to the work of Jesus. Rev 19:10, ‘For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.’ So we are in fact prophesying that it will happen again. The greatness of the UK is found in its Christian Heritage. Over recent years this has been under attack by the Government of the day, so we need to understand our past, so that we can stand up and oppose any attack on our Christian values. We have to understand what God has done in the past, so that we can see what He is doing now and understand what He will do in the future. We can learn useful lessons from revivalists and reformers of the past and be inspired by their example

At any one time you will see some complete entries and some that are partially complete. It is unlikely the site will ever be complete as there is so much information that could be put on.

2 Spiritual Wells

Clearly the term ‘well’ means different things to different people but in this context it generally means: A place where the Kingdom of God has come on earth and A place where the Kingdom of God remained after the initiator had left and A place where the effect was felt outside the immediate area and/or people would travel from outside the area to visit

An example in the Bible is Bethel in Gen 12:8; Gen 28:12. Often the well cannot be accessed because it is full of rubble (sin) so we need to re-dig the well (Gen 26:18-22).

3 Revival

At the time of writing this (December 2024) the UK is seeing the beginnings of a move of God. What this will turn out to be is unknown at present; perhaps a refreshing/renewal, perhaps a revival, but hopefully an awakening and a reformation. What are the differences between these? Everybody seems to have a different opinion, so what is written here is just one opinion. As you read the hundreds of accounts on this website you will see that virtually all of them are called revival. In most contexts ‘revival’ meant a ‘revival of religion’. It must be remembered that for a long time virtually everybody went to church on Sunday, so when a revival of religion came to a community it touched virtually everyone. Everyone was brought up with religion as a greater or lesser part of their lives, so when a revival came, religion in many was revived. However, everything changed in the 20th century with attendance at church and Christian education declining rapidly, so now when a move of God arrives in church it only touches a small percentage of the country. So what are we now to call a move of God that comes to a church? There was a temptation to say that we must drop the word ‘revival’ completely, as it really only relates to a very few people who just turn up in church because it is the thing to do. However, the word has been used universally for centuries, so it would be difficult to drop it. Therefore, our suggestion is to give a general move of God the name ‘Revival’, but break it down as follows: Refreshing/Renewal. This is when there is an outpouring which touches active Christians in the church. Revival. When the move of God touches the ‘back-slidden’. Awakening. When the revival moves out beyond the church to the unsaved or when the unsaved come to the church and are ‘awakened’ to the existence and love of God. A problem with this is that the word ‘awakening’ has up until now been used to describe a worldwide revival, such as The Great Awakening of the 1730s, but this is a new day. Reformation. When the outpouring is so extensive that the society of the town/region/nation is reformed. Characteristics of this will be pubs closing, crime markedly decreasing and laws changing. Transformation. When a Christian society is formed. Where there is no need for prisons, little divorce and 90% of the population are Christians. You will find that definitions of these words will vary greatly depending on whom you speak to, so it is important that in conversation we are clear as to who means what. This website also records many sites that are not strictly ‘wells’ but are of historical interest; also places where there is residual anointing where a Martyr has sown his life into the ground and places where anointed men and women have been buried (Elisha 2 Kings 13:21). If this is the first time you have used the site it would be advisable to go to the ‘Help’ page which will help you navigate the site.

We pray that this site will be a blessing to you.

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