David Hathaway

Paul said in verse 6-12: ‘Is it only I and Barnabas who lack the right to not work for a living? Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk? Do I say this merely on human authority? Doesn't the Law say the same thing? For it is written in the Law of Moses: ‘Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.' Is it about oxen that God is concerned? Surely he says this for us, doesn't he? Yes, this was written for us, because whoever ploughs and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest. If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you? If others have this right of support from you, shouldn't we have it all the more?' When I stepped out independently from my church, I had to support myself. The expansion of the Bible smuggling was supported by my travel company. There are those who seek to gain a major reward out of serving God; I didn't just give a tithe; I set a target to give God 90% and live on 10%.  Some of the biggest miracles I've seen where when I was supporting everything as an individual. It was in my heart to give God everything.  Paul was a tentmaker, an important occupation, he did it everywhere he went. Don't you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar? In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the Gospel should receive their living from the Gospel. Before I set up a charity to support my vision, I used to borrow money to fund the evangelism. But then the work grew so big I needed the support of fellow believers; yet I don't think those of us in ministry should profit because of the generosity of others – our needs should be met, but we shouldn't be making a fortune out of Christian work, rather, plough the money back into the mission field. 

Jesus said, “You did not choose me, I chose you.” If you are a leader, a man or woman of God, it was not your choice. God chooses the people He knows and can trust, who will not quit when it gets tough, and who will not accept the way things are, but believe for the miraculous. If you know without any question that the call of God is on you, then God will do something dramatic in your life. Get yourself ready spiritually for that moment! I am determined that I am going to get what I want from God! Stop dreaming, get into ACTION, now! Do you want to be where God is? Do you want the power of God? Then go where God is telling you, do what God is telling you. If you don't, the fire of God will move on and you will be left with nothing. Go with the fire. Do you want spiritual revival? – If you don't evangelise, revival will not come! People of God, get out and evangelise, God is telling you, Go now! If you don't, your church will stop growing and the power of God will leave. Ask God for miracles and He will do them. But it's YOU who must evangelise – you don't need me or another evangelist – YOU do it right where you are! For more information on the Ministry of David Hathaway https://www.eurovision.org.uk 

'Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk? Do I say this merely on human authority? Doesn't the Law say the same thing? For it is written in the Law of Moses: ‘Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.' Is it about oxen that God is concerned? Surely he says this for us, doesn't he? Yes, this was written for us, because whoever ploughs and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest. If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you? If others have this right of support from you, shouldn't we have it all the more? 'But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ. 'Don't you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar? In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.' (1 Corinthians 9.1-14, NIV) In this chapter, the apostle Paul the Apostle defends his rights as an apostle but explains why he chooses not to use those rights, for the sake of the Gospel. Paul teaches that Christian freedom and rights should be willingly set aside when necessary for the sake of others and the advancement of the Gospel. I'm 94 - I do everything to win some by all possible means - I run to win the crown that will last forever: "Lord, keep me faithful to the end!" We're all in this race to win the reward we will receive in the Kingdom.  Watch the full message on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DavidGHathaway  For more information on the Ministry of David Hathaway https://www.eurovision.org.uk 

I want to see more of the power of God on earth than any man has ever seen! Why? Because I don't want to limit God! I have a vision of a God who is so much bigger than you or I can ever imagine! The God of the Bible, has so much more power, is so much bigger, more glorious, more exciting than anything you could dream about! So, start dreaming, but then for God's sake stop dreaming and start to do something! God NEEDS men and women who want to see His power, His glory, who want to see God in ACTION! God needs YOU because He can only fulfil His plan through you or me. And if God does not do it through you, He will do it through somebody else. When I was a young man, I had to get a job in a London City bank to raise the money to go to Bible College. I was very impatient; I wanted to be an evangelist. I was so worried, I used to pray, “I know what You want me to do, but while I am working in this bank, please God, don't give my job to someone else!” Have you ever prayed like that? Jesus said, “You did not choose me, I chose you.” If you are a leader, a man or woman of God, it was not your choice. God chooses the people He knows and can trust, who will not quit when it gets tough, and who will not accept the way things are, but believe for the miraculous. If you know without any question that the call of God is on you, then God will do something dramatic in your life. 

I was only 14 when I was baptised in the Holy Ghost. What I wanted was what was in the Bible, the baptism of fire, of power. I knew that when the fire came down on 120 people in the Upper Room, they became fiery evangelists – and immediately Peter held the first evangelistic crusade of the early Church! You see, they were searching for God, waiting expectantly! And on the day of Pentecost, the miracle happened – the same Holy Spirit that had transformed Jesus, the same dynamic power that turned Him from the carpenter's son into the Son of God, the same power that raised Him from the dead – this same power came on the first church, changed their lives and suddenly there was an explosion of evangelism, thousands of people saved – people who had come to Jerusalem from all over the world to celebrate the Jewish festival of Pentecost – these were the ones who found the reality of salvation, the miracles of healing – and now these were the ones who went out in the power of the Holy Spirit to spread the news of salvation worldwide. First evangelists, then missionaries! The same explosion can happen today! When I was searching for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, I wanted something explosive that would change my life. If you do not want that – if you want a quiet life, enough money to buy your food, some nice clothes – you will get what you want, but nothing more!

I want to speak especially to young pastors and church leaders: if you desire to serve God, give Him everything you have, don't hold anything back. God hasn't called you into a position of prominence, but has given you the responsibility of service. I want to challenge you, God is saying something very important: He wants you, He wants your life, your time, your family, your money; this is the calling upon your life, God wants everything. How much did God give for you? He gave His only Son so that you would be set free. Give your life back in return. 'My Everything' used by kind permission of Vinesong. For more information on the Ministry of David Hathaway https://www.eurovision.org.uk 

All of us once were sinners whom God loved, chose, fashioned and created. As an evangelist I know that when God looks at sinners, He doesn't just see alcoholics, drug addicts, the hopeless broken lives. What He sees is the potential, what you can be when He touches you! God is always seeing the future. When you were still a sinner, God saw something in you He wanted. Sometimes it takes a long time – with Moses it took 80 years to form the real man that God could use to do the job! If only you knew what God sees in you, if you could see yourself as He sees you, not as you see yourself! What a difference it could make in your life if you would recognise your potential with God! When God deals with you, He does something unique. So often we want what other people have. In my relationship with God, I have never wanted what somebody else has. I want what is in His Word, what God has for me personally! Don't copy other people. If you want the power of God, that power is not going to come from somebody else. Yes, others can lay their hands on you, but the power is going to come from God. Not from me, nor from someone else. You must get it direct from God and His Word. I was only 14 when I was baptised in the Holy Ghost. What I wanted was what was in the Bible, the baptism of fire, of power. I knew that when the fire came down on 120 people in the Upper Room, they became fiery evangelists – and immediately Peter held the first evangelistic crusade of the early Church!

God had to reduce Gideon's army to only 300. Why? Because God can only use willing, obedient, committed people who will make His glory the first priority. God needs the right men and women in order to do what He wants, to bring glory to His Name, to bring deliverance to nations, to build His church – He's looking everywhere, to find those through whom He can direct all His power, and energy into saving sinners. If only you can fully understand the love that God has for the sinner. Why? First, He wants to save them from the fire of hell; second, because He needs them to fulfil His purpose in bringing the glory of Christ to the world. Look how much of God's time and energy is directed towards saving the sinner! The lost sheep takes priority over the safe ones in God's plan every time! In my crusades I do not see the people as others might – all the energy and power of God is being concentrated at that moment on reaching these people's hearts, not merely their heads – I see individuals whom God desperately wants in the Kingdom because I know what God wants to do in their lives. All of us once were sinners whom God loved, chose, fashioned and created. As an evangelist I know that when God looks at sinners, He doesn't just see alcoholics, drug addicts, the hopeless broken lives. What He sees is the potential, what you can be when He touches you! 

So Apollos and I should be looked upon as Christ's servants who distribute God's blessings by explaining God's secrets. Now the most important thing about a servant is that he does just what his master tells him to, (1 Corinthians 4.1-2, TLB). The Corinthians had begun acting spiritually superior, as though they had already “arrived.” Paul contrasts their self-confidence with the reality of apostolic ministry, which involved suffering, humility, rejection, and endurance. True spiritual leadership is marked by sacrifice, not status. Paul speaks to them as a spiritual father, correcting them out of love. His goal is restoration, not punishment. He reminds them that the Kingdom of God is not just talk, but power – genuine faith produces transformed lives, not just impressive words. For more information on the Ministry of David Hathaway https://www.eurovision.org.uk Watch the YouTube version: https://youtu.be/GuDPJVBFD-Y 

God has always had a clear plan and strategy in everything He does. From creation to salvation, nothing has happened in heaven or earth without the foreknowledge of God. An important part of the strategy which God has for today is that He wants to show that His power is not just in heaven, but also demonstrated very powerfully on earth.  We know that in His personal relationship with you, He loves, He heals, He forgives – you, personally. But there is something God wants more than your healing, more even than your salvation – what God wants right now is to see Jesus so powerfully exalted, so powerfully glorified, so that when He returns at His Second Coming – every knee shall bow and the whole world will worship at the name of Jesus – which is going to happen in the near future. Therefore, this is a major spiritual issue now!  God wants to use you to bring glory to the name of Jesus! This means that there must come a time when we stop asking God for what He can do for us, and begin to ask what we can do for Him! Our Christian lives need to change from the passive to the active. God wants to put power into YOUR life. In the West many want to receive healing, finances – something for themselves. The Bible is full of promises that He will heal us – but why? Why did God heal my throat cancer? So that I would give my life for Russia and the glory of Christ! 

Thank you for your continuing support and prayers. Though it is becoming more difficult to preach the Gospel in many places, God is in the business of opening doors! Following the many years of miracles in Europe and the former Soviet Union, God has opened Central Asia and the Caucasus. I believe that what God has done, He can do in this vital region where we are the major Evangelistic Mission because they all know what God did through my ministry in the former Soviet Union and Europe. To make a donation to support David's ministry: https://www.eurovision.org.uk/donation Join David in London, 19 September 2026, for a Day of Prayer and Worship: https://www.eurovision.org.uk/release 

'So be careful not to jump to conclusions before the Lord returns as to whether someone is a good servant or not. When the Lord comes, he will turn on the light so that everyone can see exactly what each one of us is really like, deep down in our hearts. Then everyone will know why we have been doing the Lord's work. At that time God will give to each one whatever praise is coming to him. 'I have used Apollos and myself as examples to illustrate what I have been saying: that you must not have favorites. You must not be proud of one of God's teachers more than another. What are you so puffed up about? What do you have that God hasn't given you? And if all you have is from God, why act as though you are so great, and as though you have accomplished something on your own? 'You seem to think you already have all the spiritual food you need. You are full and spiritually contented, rich kings on your thrones, leaving us far behind! I wish you really were already on your thrones, for when that time comes you can be sure that we will be there, too, reigning with you. Sometimes I think God has put us apostles at the very end of the line, like prisoners soon to be killed, put on display at the end of a victor's parade, to be stared at by men and angels alike,' (1 Corinthians 4.5-9, TLB). In 1 Corinthians 4, Paul addresses the issues of pride, division, and spiritual arrogance within the Corinthian church. He reminds believers that church leaders are not celebrities to be ranked or compared, but servants of Christ and stewards of God's truth. The primary requirement for a steward is not popularity or human approval, but faithfulness. Paul urges the Corinthians to think of him, Peter and Apollos as mere servants of Christ entrusted with the secret things of God. A servant does what his master tells him to do. We must do what God tells us to do. We must do what God tells us to do in the Bible and through His Holy Spirit. Each day God presents us with needs and opportunities that challenge us to do what we know is right. Watch the YouTube version: https://youtu.be/1B7z2hNDz88  For more information on the Ministry of David Hathaway https://www.eurovision.org.uk 

Isaiah 53:5 says Jesus was wounded for our sin, bruised for our iniquity and with His stripes we are healed. Matthew 8:16-17 says Jesus healed all that were sick to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah. So healing is to fulfil Bible prophecy! I talk about Bible prophecy, I write about it in Prophetic Vision magazine, but part of Bible prophecy is healing the sick. I believe Bible prophecy. Some people say that healing was only for the time of Jesus. But this prophecy is not ended. Jesus only healed for three years. There are more miracles of healing today than at any time in the history of the church – all over the world. Today in Russia this is how we are showing the glory of God, live on TV – seeing big miracles, every time I preach the Gospel! Talking of the last days in Matthew 24:14 Jesus says: ‘This Gospel shall be preached in all the world for a witness to the nations, and then shall the end come.' Jesus did not say there will be a worldwide revival. He said the preaching of the Gospel will be a witness to all nations, a demonstration to the whole world. My responsibility before God is not only to preach the Gospel, but to demonstrate the power of our God with authority. We have power in the Holy Ghost and we have authority in the Name of Jesus. I didn't go to a healing evangelist, I went to the Word of God and God completely healed me – no operation, no treatment – I only had God and the Bible, and that's all I needed to confound the doctors. They were shocked, they didn't believe God. But I do, I believe in a God of power, of miracles.

God said to me, ‘David, you've got a mountain in your life that you've got to move, and that mountain is to get that cancer out from your lung. If you can believe that without an operation you can be completely healed, then nothing will be impossible from there on.' Now desperately seeking God's answer from Scripture, I was reading from Jeremiah 33:6, ‘I will bring health and healing'; and Jeremiah 33:20-21, ‘I will not break my covenant with David'; and Psalm 89:35, ‘I will not lie to David'; and ‘Is anything impossible with God?' (Jeremiah 32:17&27). On the Monday I was in the hospital, tubes down my lung looking for cancer – but God had already given me the answer, I knew it was gone. The doctors looked at me in amazement and said, ‘You have no cancer!' I didn't go to a healing evangelist, I went to the Word of God and God completely healed me – no operation, no treatment – I only had God and the Bible, and that's all I needed to confound the doctors. They were shocked, they didn't believe God. But I do, I believe in a God of power, of miracles.

Through the prophet Joel, God says, 'I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh...' He goes on to talk about the first and the latter rain. I believe that the first rain fell 2000 years ago on the Day of Pentecost, and that today we are living in the days of the latter rain. As a young man I was determined I would have an experience with God that was incorruptible, that could not be destroyed, that would last until the appearing of Christ! In the late 1950s, I heard that the first World Pentecostal Conference in Jerusalem would be held on the Day of Pentecost, in May 1961. - I was determined to be there to receive a new baptism of fire! My Bible says that the church of God began in fire on the Day of Pentecost, and the church will end in fire when Christ returns! At the time I thought I hadn't received what I was looking for, but forty years later, I realised God had completely changed my life!  'Holy Ghost Fire' used by kind permission of Vinesong For more information on David Hathaway's Ministry https://www.eurovision.org.uk 

I believe in prayer and in a God of miracles. But I am faced with a challenge: do I really believe God or not? Isaiah 53:5 says Jesus was wounded for our sin, bruised for our iniquity and with His stripes we are healed. The doctors became extremely worried, they didn't want me to travel overseas and they set up exhaustive tests in a hurry. They said bluntly, ‘It's not pneumonia, you have lung cancer.' On the following Monday I had to go for a bronchoscopy when they would put a camera down my lung and take a sample of the growth. The doctors had already fast-tracked me into a process which would lead to an operation to remove all or part of my right lung – on the Wednesday I was booked to go in for the final verdict. The only question, how much of my lung they would take away? I said, ‘Lord, how can I go back into Russia and preach like I preach and say that You are a mighty God of miracles who's got power to do everything, including healing cancer, if I have got half of my right lung cut out, followed by chemotherapy? If You have finished with me, if my ministry is over, then don't heal me, because if I can no longer evangelise I might as well die, desperately seeking God's answer from Scripture, I was reading from Jeremiah 33:6, ‘I will bring health and healing'; and Jeremiah 33:20-21, ‘I will not break my covenant with David'; and Psalm 89:35, ‘I will not lie to David'; and ‘Is anything impossible with God?' (Jeremiah 32:17&27).

In December 2002, as part of the process of getting a resident's permit in Ukraine, in order to prove I did not have TB which is endemic out there, I had to have a lung X-ray. But the doctors called me back, took more X-rays, and then told me I had a shadow on my lung and that I had pneumonia. Probably I had already had it for over a month, because I remember a fever had started on the last day of October while I was evangelising in Siberia. Back in England I was treated with antibiotics, but after two courses of treatment I went again for X-rays and the patch on my lung was bigger. The doctors became extremely worried, they didn't want me to travel overseas and they set up exhaustive tests in a hurry. They said bluntly, ‘It's not pneumonia, you have lung cancer.' I prayed about it, and I did go overseas to carry out my ministry, but the day after I got back the hospital process started. On the Thursday I had the CT (computer tomography) scan and it showed the cancer. I believe in prayer and in a God of miracles. But I am faced with a challenge: do I really believe God or not? Isaiah 53:5 says Jesus was wounded for our sin, bruised for our iniquity and with His stripes we are healed.

In 1 Corinthians 4, Paul addresses the issues of pride, division, and spiritual arrogance within the Corinthian church. He reminds believers that church leaders are not celebrities to be ranked or compared, but servants of Christ and stewards of God's truth. The primary requirement for a steward is not popularity or human approval, but faithfulness. Paul urges the Corinthians to think of him, Peter and Apollos as mere servants of Christ entrusted with the secret things of God. A servant does what his master tells him to do. We must do what God tells us to do. We must do what God tells us to do in the Bible and through His Holy Spirit. Each day God presents us with needs and opportunities that challenge us to do what we know is right. 'So Apollos and I should be looked upon as Christ's servants who distribute God's blessings by explaining God's secrets. Now the most important thing about a servant is that he does just what his master tells him to. What about me? Have I been a good servant? Well, I don't worry over what you think about this or what anyone else thinks. I don't even trust my own judgment on this point. My conscience is clear, but even that isn't final proof. It is the Lord himself who must examine me and decide. 'So be careful not to jump to conclusions before the Lord returns as to whether someone is a good servant or not. When the Lord comes, he will turn on the light so that everyone can see exactly what each one of us is really like, deep down in our hearts. Then everyone will know why we have been doing the Lord's work. At that time God will give to each one whatever praise is coming to him. 'I have used Apollos and myself as examples to illustrate what I have been saying: that you must not have favorites. You must not be proud of one of God's teachers more than another. What are you so puffed up about? What do you have that God hasn't given you? And if all you have is from God, why act as though you are so great, and as though you have accomplished something on your own? (1 Corinthians 4.1-7, TLB.) Watch the YouTube version: https://youtu.be/a7-urqU8gmI?si=OIiMou5zt-EgCaZ3  For more information on David Hathaway's Ministry https://www.eurovision.org.uk 

I love to see God heal people that the doctors cannot help! To me, the real miracles of healing are when doctors have tried to heal and failed, then God takes over and by a miracle does what the most expert of doctors cannot do. I have seen many people healed of broken bones and the effects of accidents, especially young people, and many other young ones born blind, deaf, crippled, where medical science can do nothing. I love to tell of the 22-year-old girl in Australia who was born with a spinal deformity and grew instantly 10 cm taller. And the young man in East Germany who had steel pins inserted into his right hip, knee and ankle, because of a motor accident. The miracle was, God literally melted the steel pins and he could kneel and squat and bend his joints freely! And the 22-year-old boy in a Russian hospital, dying from the effects of drug abuse, AIDS and gangrene in his right leg. They wanted to amputate his leg above the knee, but I knew he would die, because the AIDS had damaged his immune system. I told him not to have the operation, that God would heal him. I said, ‘When I come to Perm next time, you and I will stand on the platform together and give glory to God for your healing!' Six months later I was back in Perm, holding a crusade live on TV to the whole region. On the first night I made an appeal to Anton via the TV broadcast to come and tell about his healing. Sure enough, on the next night, Anton was there on the platform with me to give glory to God just as I had told him he would! Anton had believed, refused the operation, and walked out of the hospital – healed! Now he is healed of AIDS, married, and in Bible school training to be an evangelist like me! This is why we see revival! Not my preaching, but God's miracles are the greatest testimony. 

The foundation of our Christian life is Christ Himself and the Word of God. But now Paul says, “Let every man take heed how he builds on that foundation!” What a challenge to leaders and pastors - and today's influencers! V11, “There is no other foundation can be laid except Jesus Christ” - not some preacher, not Paul, not even David Hathaway! Come on! It has to be Christ who is the foundation on which our Christian lives are built! You've got then to be careful how and what you build on that foundation, v12. “If any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay or stubble - every man's work shall be revealed - by fire on that Day!” Did you know that? It's not just the sinner who gets tried and then cast into the fire, but when Christ comes back, when you enter the Kingdom, what you have done will be tested by fire! Fire will test everyone of us! You, me, every Christian believer. V14ff, if your work, what you've built, survives, you will receive a reward! When I grew up, I was taught that there's a reward in the Kingdom for faithfulness! What we do down here is building a home for ourselves for the whole of eternity! Some build with hay or stubble - it won't last, it won't stand the fire! I don't want riches or fame down here. Jesus said, “What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?” You can be the richest, most powerful man on earth - Putin or Donald Trump, whoever. But in eternity it's gone! I know what Putin built, it wasn't on Christ. For some, if our work is burned, v15, we will suffer loss, but we ourselves will be saved - if our foundation is Christ. What you do after salvation - is tested by fire. Everything you build for your own profit and gain will be burned up. V16, “Don't you know that you are the Temple, the House of God? … if any man defiles the Temple of God, God will destroy him, for God is Holy, and you are His Temple!!!  Even leaders in the Church can find that their work is destroyed and they're only saved as out of the fire. Church, imagine your reaction if your house were burned down! But, v23, “You are Christ's and Christ is God's”! For more information on David Hathaway's Ministry https://www.eurovision.org.uk To watch the YouTube version https://youtu.be/uqO-6wGPl6E 

Q. Are you opposed to traditional medicine? A. No, I'm not, there are wonderful Christian doctors. If I have a toothache, I go to the dentist; and yes I wear spectacles for my eyes, but I have no eye disease and gradually God has restored my sight – I don't have bi-focal lenses and the lenses are so weak, the optician says that I can do without altogether. If I have a health problem, yes I visit the doctor. If he diagnoses a problem then I know what to pray for specifically. When I had the lung problem in 2002 I went to the doctor, at first I thought it was merely pneumonia possibly through overwork and tiredness. When it did not clear up I returned to the doctor who sent me to the hospital, where I had every kind of test. By that time, I was bleeding through the nose and failed the breath-test, however one of my daughters, a qualified nurse said, ‘Have the X-ray and the CT scan – until the doctors confirm that you have lung cancer you cannot prove the miracle of a God who can heal that cancer!' The cancer was confirmed, God healed me, and then the doctors confirmed that, without any treatment, my healing was a miracle!  I believe that with God, prevention is better than cure and we should not abuse our bodies, which can cause sickness. Often when people come to me for healing I can recognise, without being a doctor, that their problem is due to a wrong lifestyle. If you smoke, you are likely to get lung cancer; if you put on very excessive weight, you run the risk of diabetes and heart problems. These are facts. Yes, God can heal you, but I recommend that a healthy diet can mean prevention rather than cure. I love to see God heal people that the doctors cannot help! To me, the real miracles of healing are when doctors have tried to heal and failed, then God takes over and by a miracle does what the most expert of doctors cannot do. 

It does not take enormous faith, but the child-like, seed-like faith of a simple believer to move mountains. I know, because I have commanded ‘mountains' and seen them move many times! I once listened to criticism and as a result I became so discouraged, I stopped organising big crusades and praying for the sick. Because of that, for some years I saw no-one healed. Even today, after a meeting where I see the sick healed, I will often go home and grieve more over ones I didn't see healed (or who didn't repent), than rejoice over the miracles I did see. It only drives me once more to fast and pray for more Holy Spirit power, to be more like Jesus in my ministry. Jesus preached the Gospel – so I do; Jesus healed the sick – so I do.  Smith Wigglesworth has gone down in history as a man of faith. Why? Because of the healing miracles. We need more like him in the church today! In the Bible Jesus said simply, ‘Preach the Gospel, heal the sick.' In faith I believe it – I do it – I see it. Surprisingly in the crusades in Russia I see many people healed who have absolutely no faith but who come in desperate need. God sees their desperation!   Q. Are you opposed to traditional medicine? A. No, I'm not, there are wonderful Christian doctors. If I have a toothache, I go to the dentist; and yes I wear spectacles for my eyes, but I have no eye disease and gradually God has restored my sight – I don't have bi-focal lenses and the lenses are so weak, the optician says that I can do without altogether. If I have a health problem, yes I visit the doctor. If he diagnoses a problem then I know what to pray for specifically. 

We need to be changed and transformed by the Holy Spirit. When I first travelled to Ukraine they used to get their milk delivered not in a carton, but in a large container on the back of a carriage. When the housewives saw the man in the street with the milk, they didn't take the first jug they saw in the kitchen which was half full of dirty water, no, they took out a clean empty jug. It is the same principle with the Holy Spirit. We need to be emptied of ourselves so that we can be filled with the Holy Spirit! Our prayer needs to be: 'Lord change me now, not in part but the whole, Jesus touch me once again, as Your Spirit flows over me.' 'River Flow' used by kind permission of Vinesong

I hear of so many who condemn evangelistic crusades because, of the thousands who come forward in the meetings to repent, not all come to the church and remain believers, many go back into their sin. Jesus' answer to this was the parable of the sower: some seed fell on good ground, some fell among thorns and were choked by them (Matthew 13:3-9). It is the same with healing, not all will be healed, and some may lose their healing, not because this is God's way, but because the devil tempts them, or others deceive them into believing that ‘it cannot last' – if they are told this enough times some will believe it! Also many are like nine of the ten lepers who were healed and will not even return to give thanks.  No, not everyone is healed, but this is not God's perfect will. It is even recorded of Jesus that in His own country ‘He could do no mighty works because of their unbelief' (Matthew 13:58). Then in Matthew 17, when the disciples could not heal the epileptic boy, the father complained to Jesus, who instantly healed him. The disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, ‘Why couldn't we heal him?' Jesus did not compromise, He said, ‘Lack of faith!' – not on the part of the child, but the disciples. It does not take enormous faith, but the child-like, seed-like faith of a simple believer to move mountains. I know, because I have commanded ‘mountains' and seen them move many times! Jesus preached the Gospel – so I do; Jesus healed the sick – so I do. In the Bible Jesus said simply, ‘Preach the Gospel, heal the sick.'

Q. Is my sickness God's punishment for my sin? Perhaps He is teaching me something? A. If you think like that, you will not be healed. No, just as God forgives sin, instantly, He wants to heal you, NOW! God loves you! When Jesus healed the blind man the religious leaders asked, ‘Who sinned, this man or his parents?' Jesus said neither! If God were to punish us now for every sin or mistake, then every one of us would be dead, including me!  To say that our sickness is God's punishment for our sin denies the truth of the Bible which says Christ has already paid the price of sin for us! It's the devil who brings sin and sickness into your life – God has made a provision in Christ to deal with both! Q. How about those who are not healed, or who are healed and then lose their healing? Aren't you afraid they will be disappointed and lose their faith? Wouldn't it be better not to pray? A. If I believed this, I would not even preach the Gospel! Almost every time I evangelise there are those who reject and who then become harder to win. ‘He that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall... be destroyed' (Proverbs 29:1).  I hear of so many who condemn evangelistic crusades because, of the thousands who come forward in the meetings to repent, not all come to the church and remain believers, many go back into their sin. Jesus' answer to this was the parable of the sower: some seed fell on good ground, some fell among thorns and were choked by them (Matthew 13:3-9). It is the same with healing, not all will be healed.

When you come to Christ, you leave behind worldly things to live in a ‘Christ dimension' - a dimension so distinct and different from the world we grew up in. That's why Jesus said you've got to be ‘born again' - come on! You've got to die to the old, and, like a new-born, you've got to start and learn the basics. That's why Paul says in v2, “I gave you milk and not meat, because you were not able, and you're still are not able. You still behave like worldly people do…” Even today we too easily follow men, rather than Christ! I don't follow men, even though I grew up in the days of some very great Pentecostal leaders in Britain - among them Evangelist George Jeffreys, Smith Wigglesworth. I don't look to those men, even though when I was born Jeffreys wanted to adopt me as his son. I don't want to follow any man. I want to follow Jesus. Come on! I want to do what Jesus said, I want to do what He told his disciples to do - preach the Gospel, heal the sick. My power doesn't come because somebody laid hands on me; my power comes because God touched me! The evidence is there, in my life. So v7, it's neither Paul who planted, nor Apollos who watered, it's God Himself who gives the increase! The Power comes from Him! Paul says, v8, “He that plants and he that waters are one, and every man shall receive his own reward according to his work, what he has done.” Now this is a very important point.There is a reward in the Kingdom, but the reward depends on what you do for Christ.  Paul explains, v9ff, “We are labourers together with God… you are God's building.” It's God who makes us who we are, it's God who builds us. “According to the Grace of God given to me, I am the masterbuilder, I laid the foundation, and another builds on it.” Very simple. The evangelist lays the foundation which is Christ, but then you need another to build on that foundation. But if the foundation isn't right - and this is what Jesus taught - if you build your house on sand, it will collapse. You've got to build on rock!  Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/LaE-35rM5aE  For more information on the Ministry of David Hathaway https://www.eurovision.org.uk 

Matthew 8:16-17 tells us that Jesus healed all that were sick, to fulfil that which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying, ‘Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.' So even at the time of the actual ministry of Jesus, the Bible says that Christ's atonement for our sin is also His atonement for sickness and disease, that the cross He carried was our healing. Why not carry that cross of healing (1 Peter 2:24; Isaiah 53)? Sin and sickness are not from God, both come from the devil. The purpose of the first coming of Jesus was to make a way of escape from the evil which Satan and ultimately man, by his disobedience, brought into the world: ‘For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, to destroy the works of the devil!' (1 John 3:8). However, this is only in part today, none of us is perfect in ourselves, we live in a world of sin and sickness and are surrounded by them. When Christ returns we shall be taken out of this world into the Kingdom of Heaven, then there will be no more sin, sickness or death. Until then, walking by faith, we must overcome sin – and temptation – and sickness. Q. Is my sickness God's punishment for my sin? Perhaps He is teaching me something? A. If you think like that, you will not be healed. No, just as God forgives sin, instantly, He wants to heal you, NOW!

Paul had a problem with the church in Corinth. They were still ‘babes in Christ' - 1 Cor 3.1. Anyone who has been a parent knows the struggle it is to bring children to maturity - to potty-train them, to train them to eat nicely, to share, and everything else…  When you come to Christ, you leave behind worldly things to live in a ‘Christ dimension' - a dimension so distinct and different from the world we grew up in. That's why Jesus said you've got to be ‘born again' - come on! You've got to die to the old, and, like a new-born, you've got to start and learn the basics. That's why Paul says in v2, “I gave you milk and not meat, because you were not able, and you're still are not able. You still behave like worldly people do…” Let's face it - there are many in the church who live and speak like the world, like they did before they became a Christian… No difference. The biggest problem in Corinth was the strife, envy and division. That's not Christ. Christ is one. In Him is no division. But some of the people in Corinth were saying, v4, “I follow Paul”, and others were saying, “I follow Apollos.” That's not of God! Paul founded the church. His conversion from the life of a fanatical but highly educated Pharisee, opposed to Christ and persecuting Christians, was dramatic - the Lord Himself appeared to him on the road to Damascus. Apollos was different. An ‘eloquent man, mighty in the Scriptures', he believed in Jesus, and spoke and taught diligently about the things of the Lord, but only knew ‘the baptism of John' - water baptism for the forgiveness of sin. It seems he didn't know the Baptism of the Holy Spirit; it was two of Paul's co-workers, Priscillla and Aquila, who instructed him ‘in the Way of God more perfectly' - Acts 18.24-28 - before recommending him to the church in Achaia, where Corinth was. The different experiences of these men are not what matter. Paul says in v5, “Who is Paul? Who is Apollos? Simply ministers by whom you believed!” -  ‘men who brought you to Christ'! V6, “I planted, Apollos watered - but it's GOD who gives the increase.” It's not Paul, it's not Apollos! It's not men. It's God. Even today we too easily follow men, rather than Christ! I don't follow men, even though I grew up in the days of some very great Pentecostal leaders in Britain - among them Evangelist George Jeffreys, Smith Wigglesworth. I don't look to those men, even though when I was born Jeffreys wanted to adopt me as his son. I don't want to follow any man. I want to follow Jesus. Come on! I want to do what Jesus said, I want to do what He told his disciples to do - preach the Gospel, heal the sick. My power doesn't come because somebody laid hands on me; my power comes because God touched me! The evidence is there, in my life. To make a donation to support David's ministry: https://www.eurovision.org.uk/donation To watch the message: https://youtu.be/70ImKZZgKNY?si=RyCFNDqad8CsZjiY 

I want to tell you, Jesus commanded us to both preach the Gospel AND heal the sick (Luke 9&10). These two are inseparable. The healing of the sick is the demonstration of the Gospel – see Matthew 9:6 where Jesus said to the onlookers, ‘But that you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins.' He said to the sick of the palsy, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk.' Q. Isn't sickness part of the cross we must carry?  A. The cross that Jesus carried was not sickness but rejection, torture and death! The cross He asked us to carry is not sickness, but the persecution, hardship, rejection and even death that follow being His disciples and preaching His Gospel (Matthew 10:38; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23; 14:27). Will you carry that cross? Then get rid of your sickness or you will never be fit to carry it! Jesus was no sick feeble Man, but the strongest, fittest Man who has ever lived! That must be your ideal.   Matthew 8:16-17 tells us that Jesus healed all that were sick, to fulfil that which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying, ‘Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.' So even at the time of the actual ministry of Jesus, the Bible says that Christ's atonement for our sin is also His atonement for sickness and disease.

Doubt is one of the devil's biggest weapons against believers. Satan did not say to Eve in the garden, ‘Eat those apples, God does not mind.' He sowed doubt, ‘Did God say no?' Today he uses the same doubt to destroy God's authority and take us out of the blessing that God has given us. The following are actual questions people ask me. Not all who are prayed for are healed – can God be equally glorified in Christians who are not healed? Yes He can, if that is what they really want! But it is not God's perfect will for them. God did not want Eve to doubt. She lived in God's paradise, but because she doubted God's word, she spent her life under the influence of evil and her son was murdered. But God in mercy provided a final redemption because He still loved her! 

I have written in my office, 'Think God, think big!' How big is God? How powerful is God? My God has the greatest power in heaven, earth and the whole of creation. There is nothing He cannot do! For my God there is no miracle too big, no question too hard, nothing is impossible. The Bible says that the things which are impossible with man are possible for God.  'Our God Reigns' used by kind permission of Vinesong. Original Air Date 29 May 2015.

Don't look at the troubles, at the difficulties, at your sickness, your poverty. Look at God and you'll find Him, if you do it with all your heart. I make a lot of mistakes, but I LOVE Him so much! How do you recognise God? How do you find Him? What is the evidence of God's existence in the Bible? It's the fact that He's a God of miracles, who answers prayer, when it takes a miracle! This is the reality! This is the God we're looking for: a God who answers all who call on Him, by miracles, by signs, by wonders. This is the evidence! Take the miraculous out and you destroy the reality of who God is. You make Him no different to men!  Moses says, Deuteronomy 4:32, ‘Ask now of the days that are past, since the day God created man on the earth, and ask from one side of Heaven to the other, whether there has been any such great thing as this thing is'' He challenges the people to ask the question in two dimensions: in time from creation until now, and in space from one side of the world to the other, ‘Have you ever seen a miracle as great as this that God did when He delivered Israel out of Egypt – by miracles, by signs and by wonders?!'

We have a covenant relationship with God. It's not simply based on our faith which is weak and can fail, but a covenant which cannot fail or be broken. When you come to Christ, you enter into a covenant relationship with God, signed and sealed by the Blood of Christ. God separates you from the guilt AND the power of sin. You are delivered from Satan and all his works – not when you get to Heaven, but down here, in your crisis, in your distress, in all the trouble the devil puts upon you. Whoever you are, whatever you are, you are delivered by the Power of the Blood. It's an unbreakable covenant to defeat the power of the devil in your life. Yes, we make mistakes, we fail, we fall. But He cannot fail us. The Bible reminds us that God came to deliver the sinner, not the righteous. None of us can enter the Kingdom of God through our own righteousness, so we cannot ‘earn' the answers to prayer through our ‘holiness'. God did not heal my cancer because of my ‘holiness', but because He is God! This is what Moses was saying to the people, don't look at the troubles, at the difficulties, at your sickness, your poverty. Look at God and you'll find Him, if you do it with all your heart.

“No one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God... But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us!” This is humanly where all the Bible colleges in world, all the teachings and doctrines of the churches fail us. Paul says, v13ff, “What we speak is not words taught by human wisdom, but by the Spirit... The man who doesn't have the Spirit doesn't accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, he cannot understand them, because they have to be spiritually discerned.” Human beings do not understand the things of God. They don't! To the world, the teachings of Christ are foolish. But when we have the Holy Spirit, HE explains and reveals the Truth to us, so that a spiritual man, v15, is able to make judgements about all things. We HAVE to have the Holy Spirit! It is the Holy Spirit within us who reveals the mind of God.  Come on! I need the Holy Spirit to reveal to me what God's Will and Plan are! This doesn't come through the teaching of men. What I have and what I do comes directly from the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God. He knows the mind of God. You and I - we don't know the mind of God. The Holy Spirit does and will reveal it to us! To make a donation to support David's ministry https://www.eurovision.org.uk/donation  To watch the video version https://youtu.be/fzY5j5ZOvmQ?si=jBiTtnjYhlWgPj4A  

We've got to search for God and find Him right where we are! If you think my life as an evangelist is easy, I can disillusion you! Some people say they want to be like me, but if they knew the truth, they wouldn't want to! When I had the lung cancer I had a very busy schedule – don't ask me how much I fasted, how much I prayed. When you know you have only a short time to live, you learn how to pray! By my bed I keep my praying Bible, where God talks to me and I talk to God. When I had the cancer I would wake up troubled in the night, pick up my praying Bible and God would speak to me, comfort me and I would go back to sleep. I used to say, ‘If You've finished with me, just tell me. But if You have a whole new life in front of me and want me to get back out there in Russia, with a new power and a new anointing, to see things I've never seen before, then I want You to answer me and heal me. I haven't seen Your real Power and Your Glory yet, and if you will let me see it, Lord I want You to work a miracle.' And He did! We have a covenant relationship with God. It's not simply based on our faith which is weak and can fail, but a covenant which cannot fail or be broken. When you come to Christ, you enter into a covenant relationship with God, signed and sealed by the Blood of Christ.

Paul is saying, v3, he came ‘in weakness and fear and much trembling'. Why? Perhaps because even here in pagan Corinth, Paul is also facing up to educated Orthodox Jews, trained as he had been, who rejected the crucified Messiah and persecuted His followers. So he's ‘in weakness', because he wants to present something he hadn't been brought up with, that he himself had violently rejected, but was more powerful than anything he'd ever known. He didn't use wise and persuasive words - no, he came with a demonstration of the Spirit's Power! Why? So that their faith might not rest on men's wisdom but on God's Power! What we need in our Christian ministry is a practical demonstration of God's Power. Not just words. I was a pastor for 15 years. One day God said to me, “I'm tired of listening to you. Stop talking. Go out and put into practice what you preach. And don't come back until you've done it!” That's why I've spent 60 years of my life ‘out there', doing it. And I'm still doing it!  I take the Book literally. I want to do what the Book, the Word of God says. Jesus commanded His disciples, preach the Gospel, heal the sick, raise the dead! That's what I've been doing. Everywhere I go I preach the Gospel, heal the sick, bind the devil's power simply by preaching Christ.  I've seen the most incredible demonstration of the Spirit's Power. Has anyone seen anything like it? I've seen so many miracles of healing, and so many come into full-time ministry, just because they have seen and experienced the demonstration of God's Power. To make a donation to support David's ministry https://www.eurovision.org.uk/donation To watch the video version https://youtu.be/-qNY_ojHw6M 

If you want to meet with God, you don't have to wait until you have done this or that. I would never have become an evangelist, never seen a miracle of healing if God had waited until I was perfect before He answered my prayers. I call on God, He deals with me where I am. That's why I was healed, not because I was ‘holy'. What God looks at is the deep desire of your heart.    I was asked once, ‘How many hours a day do you pray? How much do you read the Bible?' The truth is, there are some days when I can hardly pray, because I'm tired, exhausted, I'm travelling. If I'm coming from Siberia, there are thirty-six hours in my day! Even the young men find it difficult to keep up with my punishing travelling/preaching schedule. Yes, believe me, when I'm in a crisis, I do fast and pray! But in some crises when I'm travelling and ministering, I just can't fast – but God is right there in my crisis. We've got to search for God and find Him right where we are! We have a covenant relationship with God. It's not simply based on our faith which is weak and can fail, but a covenant which cannot fail or be broken. When you come to Christ, you enter into a covenant relationship with God, signed and sealed by the Blood of Christ

I hate the devil, and I fight him by demonstrating the power of God. You must fight him, not allow him to stop you receiving. Some look to the church for ceremony, for a formula, for peace – but I find God most, not in the calm, but in the reality of my life. I discovered a long time ago that the most important thing which creates character is not WHAT happens to us so much as OUR REACTION! Moses encourages the people in verse 27, ‘If from where you are…  you will seek the Lord your God, you WILL find Him, if you seek Him with ALL your heart.' So, in the midst of every distress, fear, want, even sickness – whatever situation you are in – there you will find God! So often we are told that if you want to find God, you've got to be ‘holy', to give up everything, separate yourself, shut yourself up like in a monastery. No, the reality is that spirituality is not isolating yourself, not trying to be some kind of ‘holy' person – it's YOU dealing with GOD right where you are!

Exploits! Do we as Christians really understand what this means? Daniel says, 'In these evil days that are coming - the people who KNOW their God won't be weak! They won't be defeated! There'll be on FIRE! And they are going to do exploits!' Exploits are the things other people can't or don't do! If you're going to do an exploit, it's something that your friends don't do, something that even the Church doesn't do, something that other pastors, other evangelists don't do. It's going to be something bigger, more powerful! 'Matthew 24' and 'He shall reign' used by kind permission of Vinesong

Deuteronomy 4, Moses warned the people first that they must go in and possess the Promised Land, but that then (verses 26-27), once they were in, he said, ‘You're going to go through difficulty and trial.' When I preach the Gospel, I am a realist. I do not tell people that coming to Christ is suddenly an end to all their problems, everything will be transformed, living on cloud nine, twanging a harp! Let's be realistic, the church is called into battle to fight for the Kingdom! Yes, me as an evangelist winning people for Christ, but also you, like me, fighting for those things which are our right to possess, like healing and deliverance. We're at war with an enemy who is fighting to prevent us possessing! I hate the devil, and I fight him by demonstrating the power of God. You must fight him, not allow him to stop you receiving. Some look to the church for ceremony, for a formula, for peace – but I find God most, not in the calm, but in the reality of my life

Jesus said, ‘When you pray say, “Our Father in heaven… Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.”' I was telling the congregation in the football stadium, if you want forgiveness, we have to forgive those who have sinned against us; amongst the 20,000 in the stadium, there were the former members of the secret police who persecuted you and your family. God is speaking, and this is what He says, ‘If you want forgiveness, you must forgive, even the police.'  Suddenly, there was a stillness, and the power of God came down. The congregation began to weep. They came forward in their thousands to receive Jesus, because they had understood that the message of God is forgiveness.

I don't read anywhere in the New Testament that Jesus or the Apostles engaged in ‘spiritual warfare', binding demons BEFORE they could minister freely somewhere. Talking to our Heavenly Father, yes. Seeking the guidance of the Holy Spirit, yes. Because, through Jesus, by the Spirit we have DIRECT access to the Father - Eph 2:18! The promise of the Father is that when we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive power to become Christ's witnesses, anywhere on earth, wherever He calls us - Acts 1:4-5,8! It's simple. Paul, writing the believers in the pagan city of Corinth, said, 1 Cor 2:ff, “When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you, except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” That's a powerful statement! I'm sorry to say that today our preachers preach all sorts of things that I would question.  But Paul is very simple. Though he was a highly educated Jew with Roman citizenship from the city of Tarsus in Asia Minor, though he was a Pharisee, trained to a very high degree in Jewish Scripture, theology, teachings and traditions, and equipped with much ‘eloquence and superior wisdom' from his studies in Jerusalem - when he came to these Corinthians, he came very simply, resolved to know and preach nothing else, but Christ and His Crucifixion.

Jesus said, ‘When you pray say, “Our Father in heaven… Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.”' If we want forgiveness, we have to forgive those who have sinned against us. I can remember one of the most memorable meetings I've been in, it was in Timisoara, Romania, just after the collapse of communism. Under Ceaușescu there was terrible persecution. The secret police had tortured and killed so many people, and then in those early days of the freedom, I was in a big football stadium, and I was talking about the love of God and His forgiveness.

From the very first ‘EuroVision' East/West Conference the Holy Spirit gave me a ‘Vision' of what God could do if I had the faith to believe in a God of the impossible! That Vision has been in my heart for almost 40 years – and is not yet completed. That's why God has called me to work in the outer parts of that Soviet Empire – and the same miracle which led to Ukraine's freedom and revival will lead to the same freedom from Russia and revival in Central Asia! So, we, with your support, will be evangelising with over 5,000 in Kazakhstan in June, then back in Kyiv in July, before Poland in September! To make a donation: eurovision.org.uk/donation 'Prayer Anthem' and 'Holy Spirit Move Me Now' performed by Vinesong

Dear brothers, I beg you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to stop arguing among yourselves. Let there be real harmony so that there won't be splits in the church. I plead with you to be of one mind, united in thought and purpose. For some of those who live at Chloe's house have told me of your arguments and quarrels, dear brothers. Some of you are saying, “I am a follower of Paul”; and others say that they are for Apollos or for Peter; and some that they alone are the true followers of Christ. And so, in effect, you have broken Christ into many pieces. But did I, Paul, die for your sins? Were any of you baptised in my name? I am so thankful now that I didn't baptise any of you except Crispus and Gaius. For now no one can think that I have been trying to start something new, beginning a “Church of Paul.” Oh, yes, and I baptized the family of Stephanas. I don't remember ever baptising anyone else. For Christ didn't send me to baptise, but to preach the Gospel; and even my preaching sounds poor, for I do not fill my sermons with profound words and high-sounding ideas, for fear of diluting the mighty power there is in the simple message of the cross of Christ. I know very well how foolish it sounds to those who are lost, when they hear that Jesus died to save them. But we who are saved recognize this message as the very power of God. For God says, “I will destroy all human plans of salvation no matter how wise they seem to be, and ignore the best ideas of men, even the most brilliant of them.” For it is from God alone that you have your life through Christ Jesus. He showed us God's plan of salvation; he was the one who made us acceptable to God; he made us pure and holy and gave himself to purchase our salvation. As it says in the Scriptures, “If anyone is going to boast, let him boast only of what the Lord has done.” (1 Corinthians 1.10-18, 30-31, TLB)

Next morning, Sunday, I woke early with the memory of what had happened the previous night burning within me. I got out of bed with such a sense of excitement, this was to be the first day of my new life. I was the first to go downstairs that morning, full of expectation that a major event was about to happen – maybe the preacher wouldn't turn up and they would call on me – but whatever happened, it would be part of my ex- citing new life wholly surrendered to Jesus and fulfilling all my new dreams. But as I stood downstairs and looked at the kitchen, all I could see was a row of dirty shoes. All my senses were in rebellion, as I knew that the Lord Himself was telling me to clean those shoes – how can THIS be my dream of serving God with all my heart and mind? But I learned the hardest lesson of my life – absolute obedience – DO whatever He says and don't ask questions.

The devil was saying, ‘Don't listen to God, you are doing enough. You are a Christian, preaching the Gospel; that is enough.' And God said, ‘No, it isn't!' He said to me, I want you! I could get no peace until I turned to the Lord and surrendered everything to Him. God did not tell me to be an evangelist. He didn't call me to be a pastor. What God said to me that day, when I was 15 years old, was, ‘David, I want you; I want all of you; I want your life, your time, your money.'

So many people say that they want the power of God - power to see their prayer's answered, power to see healing miracles, power to be delivered from all that is wrong in their lives - I want to show you that the power is in the Gospel, and once you have received that power, it should be increasing. With each new day, and each new miracle, the power of God should increase in your life.

I was 15, already preaching the Gospel, evangelising in the school. I can remember being on holiday, my brother and I were staying with some Christians, and on the Saturday night we were on the beach. I knew that God was talking to me. I could not get any peace until I left the others: I could feel a battle in my heart – the devil was saying, ‘Don't listen to God, you are doing enough. You are a Christian, preaching the Gospel; that is enough.' And God said, ‘No, it isn't!' He said to me, I want you! I could get no peace until I turned to the Lord and surrendered everything to Him. 

Jesus said, You did not choose Me, I chose you! Do you understand the significance of this statement? I am an evangelist, but this wasn't my choice, I knew from the beginning, God had chosen me. He had called me for a purpose. 

Now you have every grace and blessing; every spiritual gift and power for doing his will are yours during this time of waiting for the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. And he guarantees right up to the end that you will be counted free from all sin and guilt on that day when he returns. God will surely do this for you, for he always does just what he says, and he is the one who invited you into this wonderful friendship with his Son, even Christ our Lord. But, dear brothers, I beg you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to stop arguing among yourselves. Let there be real harmony so that there won't be splits in the church. I plead with you to be of one mind, united in thought and purpose. (1 Corinthians 1.7-11, TLB)