David Hathaway

Everyone wants the anointing, we all sit in prayer meetings, but few will make the sacrifice of a life devoted to God. There is a price to pay in service to God. The Apostle Paul describes this sacrifice as 'reasonable' (Romans 12:1). Once God fills you with fire, it's your responsibility to keep the fire burning! The older I get, the more power I have, the more fire I have! I'm more on fire now than when I was first baptised in the Holy Spirit. That's how it should be! The fire shouldn't go out, it should burn brighter! How do we keep the fire burning? Sacrifice. The more sacrifice you put on God's altar the greater the fire of God in your life. 'Peace like a river' used by kind permission of Vinesong. Original Air Date 27 April 2015

From one side of the world to the other, from America to Russia, from the north to the south – in the whole world – has ever any man seen a greater miracle than this happen, visibly, on earth? The answer is no! It is the greatest miracle ever. And it happened just forty years ago. What was it?  This is the background: God chose a baby, born to a slave woman, who became the son of the king's daughter by the plan of God. Later, he saw an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Israelites and killed him. As a result, he fled Egypt to escape justice; married, had a family, looked after sheep and worked for his father-in-law until he was 80 years old; now suddenly God called this man, saying, ‘Go back to the place that you came from, challenge the greatest leader in the world, the most powerful nation on earth, demand that they release your persecuted, suffering people, command Pharaoh to let them go!'

Moses is 120 years old, but forty years before this something had happened which brought a bigger change to the nation of Israel than anything ever experienced in any nation before or since – the moment when God, for the first time, began to demonstrate the greatness of His power by working the most outstanding, visible miracles in front of the most powerful nation in the whole earth. Moses asks the people a question in two dimensions – time and space. First Moses says, from the very beginning of time until now, has anyone ever witnessed a miracle as big as this, the biggest, most earth-shaking demonstration of God's power ever seen? Secondly Moses says, ask the question in space, from one side of the world to the other, from America to Russia, from the north to the south – in the whole world – has ever any man seen a greater miracle than this happen, visibly, on earth? The answer is no! It is the greatest miracle ever. 

I'm looking at the start of the ministry of Jesus. In Luke 4:14 it says, ‘Jesus returned in the Power of the Spirit into Galilee, and there went out a fame of Him through all the region round about and He taught in their synagogues being glorified by all.' He's been baptised by John; and full of the Holy Spirit, He's been led by the Spirit into the wilderness where He was tempted for 40 days by the devil! In v9, the devil takes Him to a pinnacle of the Temple, it's the last of the temptations, saying, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down!” It was a challenge of course and Jesus resisted him, saying, “It is written, you shall not tempt the Lord your God.” There's a big lesson here that we must be careful we don't ‘tempt' God in the wrong way by attempting to do something that is not in His Will for us. And the devil, having finished tempting Jesus, departs from Him – ‘for a time'! That is very significant. The devil hasn't left Him – only for a time. So now Jesus returns from the wilderness, from being tempted, in the Power of the Spirit, and goes into Galilee. I want to emphasise: Jesus Himself NEEDED the Power of the Holy Spirit in order that He could fulfil His ministry. By v16, He arrives in Nazareth, His hometown where He grew up, and, as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and got up to read. They gave Him the book of Isaiah and He found the place where it is written, saying, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He – the Spirit of the Lord – has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor, He's sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, the recovery of sight to the blind, and to set at liberty those that are bruised, and to preach the Acceptable Year of the Lord.” He closed the book and said, “Today, this Scripture is fulfilled!” What He reads from Isaiah covers the whole of His ministry! For some of us, this is OUR ministry. It certainly is mine! I would say, as an evangelist, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, and for 75 years this has been my ministry. 75 years ago, He anointed me to preach the Gospel. To the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance, to heal, to set at liberty those that are bruised – and to preach the Acceptable Year of the Lord. In other words – JESUS IS COMING! This is the whole of the Gospel that we preach! And as I read the New Testament, I find that Jesus spends more time talking about His Kingdom than He does teaching about healing and salvation.

I want to share with you something that God has been saying strongly to ME since 1992 and which is powerfully motivating MY life. And I want to give YOU the same strong spiritual challenge which Moses gave to Israel in Deuteronomy 4:32 – ‘Ask now of the days that are past, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from the one side of Heaven to the other, WHETHER THERE HAS BEEN ANY SUCH THING AS THIS GREAT THING IS, OR HAS BEEN HEARD LIKE IT?' I have not found any other man who could make a statement as strong as this, that Israel had witnessed the greatest miracle ever! Yes, this was 3000 years ago, but I believe that it also relates to today, and will be EXCEEDED.

The centurion KNEW Jesus had authority to heal his servant, just by the word He spoke! But Jesus was amazed at the centurion! Absolutely amazed. He said in 8:10, “I haven't found such faith anywhere!” Not in Galilee, not in Syria, Decapolis nor Trans-Jordan, not in Judea nor Jerusalem, not in all the places where He was working with Jewish people. He said bluntly, “I've not found such great faith in all Israel!” You see, your religion without faith in God, in Jesus, without relationship, without obedience – is nothing. He says in v11, “Many will come from the East and the West and shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven…” Outsiders will enter the Kingdom! But the religious, those who think themselves to be ‘children of the Kingdom' will be cast into outer darkness, where they will weep and gnash their teeth! To the Roman centurion Jesus said, “Go your way, and it will be done as you have believed.” And his servant was healed at that very same moment. THAT'S the authority God has given us THROUGH Christ. Jesus had authority because of His obedience to His Father. If we follow His example, we too can ask the Father – in the Name of Jesus – for whatever we want – and He will give us what we ask. It's incredible! BUT we must ourselves be willing to be OBEDIENT, whatever the cost, and so follow Jesus.

Moses asks God, What is Your Name? God has already described Himself to Moses as the God of his ancestors: the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Now in Exodus 3 God says, "I Am Who I Am and What I Am, and I Will Be What I Will Be," (verse 14, Amplified Bible).

The miracles God could do 2000 years ago, He can do the same today; He can even do greater! When I had throat cancer, God cut it out as if with a knife!

You have power over evil spirit, every sickness, every difficulty. Jesus said in Mark 16:17-18, 'These signs shall follow them that believe; in My Name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover.' When the devil comes, call upon the Name of Jesus! When you are weak in body, in the Name of Jesus be strong! When you are sick, in the Name of Jesus be healed! By faith receive your deliverance NOW! When I had throat cancer the doctors and even my church members said God couldn't work the miracle - that it was impossible to be healed. I fought unbelief and doubt, many times I was in despair and felt hopeless. But when the answer came, it was an even greater miracle than I had asked for! God didn't just heal me, He actually cut the cancer out, as if with a knife, leaving me with a scar as the evidence of His healing power! 'Signs and Wonders' used by kind permission of Vinesong

When I was in prison for Bible smuggling, I challenged God to release me, just as He had done for Paul and Silas. God answered prayer, and sent the British Prime Minister to set me free!

When I was in a communist prison, I challenged God, I said, "If You could get Paul and Silas out of prison, then I want You to work a miracle for me! Is Your power the same today? If it is, I want you to get me out of prison!"

In the early days, when I had been a pastor for 15 years already, the Lord said to me, “Shut up! Stop talking, I'm tired of listening to you!” For the Lord to say that to me through the Holy Spirit was pretty damning! He said, “Go out and DO everything you talk about and tell other people to do – AND DON'T COME BACK TILL YOU'VE DONE IT!” My whole life has been putting into practice what I have believed – and I've gained unbelievable experiences with God. All my life, whether it was the cancers, the communist prison, all my ministry, the whole of my life has simply been putting into practice what I believe. In His teaching, in healing the sick, in His life, Jesus SHOWED who He was by the AUTHORITY that He had. The crowds following Jesus sensed this. I don't suppose that the centurion had been on the mountain, but he must certainly have heard of Christ's reputation. As a soldier, he understood authority. He had to respond to the authority of his superiors. And in turn, he had authority over those under him. It's the chain of command. Under the authority of Rome, he only had to say to his soldiers, “Obey! DO IT!” – and they did! A soldier HAS to obey his commanding officer. When he says, “Go, do this!” – he does it! When the centurion said to Jesus, “You have authority; I'm a man under authority, and I've got soldiers under me” he understood, in a very practical way, the authority that Jesus had! 

If you want to be filled with the Holy Spirit and with all the Power of God, then you have to be emptied first, then God can fill you. 

I want to thank you for all your support over so many years. Together we have seen the most incredible miracles, the hundreds of thousands who have found Christ, and the hundreds of churches founded. The miracles I've seen were not merely of healing, but storms stopped, miraculous provision of aircraft, a life of faith overcoming all opposition especially under the communist oppression. 

In Ch 8.1-4, He comes down the mountain, followed by the crowds. A leper comes to Him and says to Him – I'm quite fascinated by this – “If You WANT, You CAN heal me of my leprosy!” What a strong, bold statement! Leprosy was incurable! So, already at this stage, there is an incredible level of faith in what He can do! And yes, of course the leper was healed. Jesus says to him, “I will!” And He does! Next, in v5, Jesus comes into Capernaum, and a centurion comes to Him – he's not a Jew, he's a Roman soldier, an officer in the army that is occupying the land. But this officer comes to Jesus saying, “My servant is at home, sick of the palsy – paralysed – and grievously tormented.” Immediately Jesus responds, “I will come and heal him.” That's Jesus – the willingness – He would even go to a Roman and heal his servant. But the Roman says, no, I'm not a Jew, I'm not good enough for You to come to my home. Yes, I'm an officer – but I'm not worthy of You! You can imagine what those Roman officers got up to, believe me! They weren't normally kind, gentle people, they had the power to be brutal. Yet – and this is very interesting – he says, “I'm not worthy to have You in my house, but SPEAK ONLY A WORD, and my servant will be healed!” He recognised the AUTHORITY Jesus had!

Why do I see miracles? I WANT miracles, I LIVE for miracles. I live to see the Glory and the Power of God! Often it's difficult, but I won't give up, I won't let go of God until He works the miracles, because God cannot fail.

When I think of the number of troubles I have had – being in a communist prison for a year, having cancer twice, having gunmen sent on three occasions to shoot me – God uses every circumstance to His glory, He uses the problems and the difficulties in our lives to convince us miraculously!

I want you to be the strongest believers anyway in the world: people with fire, people with power, people who pray, people who will change the world! Mark 11:22-23 is so revolutionary, so powerful, it will change your life! Jesus said, "Have faith in God! Truly I say unto you, whoever you are, look up, see the mountain over there - if you have got faith in God, you will say to that mountain 'be cast down into the sea' and if you don't doubt in your heart but believe that what you say will happen, you shall have whatever you say!" If you really believe what you say, you will speak and the mountain will move! Whatever you say, if you speak with faith and authority, and don't doubt, you will be healed, your family will be blessed, your financial burden will move - even if those things are mountains in your life! 'What a miracle' used by kind permission of Vinesong. Original Air Date: 20 March 2015

God was calling Moses, ‘I want you to go to Pharaoh and tell him, “Let My people go”. Just do it.' Please understand – Moses was a human being, no different from you. Alright, he was born into a humble family but adopted by a woman of wealth, and then he had some problems and now is living in relative poverty out in the desert, with a family and responsibilities like you, so he's human! And he argued with God, ‘Look, when I talk to my own people, let alone Pharaoh, they won't listen to me!' (Exodus 4:1). How did God convince Moses? God's answer was very simple, ‘What is it you have got in your hand?' God took the ordinary common thing Moses had in his hand, his shepherd's rod, and used that as the demonstration. 

One of the battles God has is to get our attention, and with Moses God had to do something extraordinary: Moses was looking after the sheep – he had got himself married, had some kids and was busy, tied up with all the problems that you have, working hard to get enough money to feed his growing family. When suddenly, out in the desert, God appeared to him in a burning bush. What attracted Moses was not that the bush was on fire but that the fire didn't burn it. There is a time when the fire of God will burn up the impurities in your life – but when He starts to put the fire into you, He does not want to destroy you, He wants to use the real you! God knows who you are. Sometimes when I am having problems, and I have to say – like Paul – ‘Lord, I am sorry, I should have done this and I shouldn't have done that,' and when I am trying to make excuses and say, ‘I'm not perfect, I can't do this, and Lord, you know the problems I have in my life,' God says, ‘Look, I knew you before you were born, I made you and it's about time you understood I made you, just as you are, for a purpose.'

When you surrender your life to the Lord, He will take care of you, as He has done for me these past 93 years. I have been young and now I am old, and His grace has sustained me through it all. Commit your life to the Lord, and He will bring to pass every promise He has spoken over your life. 'The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously; those the Lord blesses will inherit the land, but those he curses will be destroyed. 'The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand. 'I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread. They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be a blessing. 'Turn from evil and do good; then you will dwell in the land for ever. For the Lord loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones.' (Psalm 37.21-28, NIV)

God was saying, ‘I want you, David, I want everything you have and everything you are.' At that moment God did not say, ‘You're going to be a preacher, you're going to be an evangelist, you're going to be a missionary.' It was to say, ‘David, I want all – or nothing,' and I was just 15 years old! That's where we begin with God – it's all or nothing. You can't play with God; you can't fool with Him. What are you called for? Are you called to live for God, or for yourself – to have a good time, a family and a big house, a car and a successful business and just to go on until your pension comes? No, when God called you, He said, ‘I want everything, including your success.'

'Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong; for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away. Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this: he will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun. Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret – it leads only to evil. For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land,' (Psalm 37.1-8).

I remember the day when the Lord challenged me to serve Him. I was 15, on holiday on the South Coast of England, walking on the sea-front with some young Christians and I couldn't enter into the fun that they were having because God was speaking to me – and the devil was speaking to me. The devil was saying, ‘Don't listen, it's OK, things are fine. You're doing well – you got saved when you were 8, and you got baptised in water when you were 12, you started preaching at 13, that's enough,' and God was saying, ‘I want more.' God was not calling me to be a preacher or an evangelist at that time, God was asking me to give my whole life to Him. Simply to give everything to Him.

If God is going to use you – and God wants to use every one of you – if you're not in a position where He can use you, then examine your spiritual life and ask the question, why are you saved? Because you are saved to serve!

Why do we need the Holy Spirit? Jesus said it is the Spirit who convicts the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment to come (John 16:8). - It is not the preacher who convicts of sin, it is the Holy Spirit! Without this 'Baptism' we are powerless and ineffective. The whole purpose of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is to fill us with power so that we can win the lost! The 'Baptism' is not so that we can sit at ease in church in a 'holy huddle', but to preach the Gospel with power and authority! What was the first thing Peter did when he was baptised in the Spirit? He won 3000 for the Kingdom! What did you do when you first received the Holy Spirit?! 'Holy Spirit move me now' used by kind permission of Vinesong. Original Air Date 17 April 2015.

Sometimes God has to do something unusual in our lives to attract our attention, to make us turn aside from the cares of the world, from the responsibilities that we have, from those business problems, from our sickness, our pain, and all those other problems we've got. God wants us to turn aside like Moses and look at Him.

God needs people. He needs people to give financially, especially He needs businessmen, who will turn their businesses over to work for Him and produce money for the Kingdom. God will honour and prosper businessmen when they get that vision to devote their money to winning souls. And we need people who will intercede and pray – I couldn't achieve what I do without people all over the world who are interceding and praying. And we need the preachers.

Our world is in turmoil and distress. Millions of people are in distress. I want to give you a word of comfort from Psalms. When I was in prison for Bible smuggling, I was not allowed to read my Bible. Months after my sentence, I was able to 'smuggle' it into my cell. I was desperate to read God's Word. After nine months without it, where would I start to read? After a few moments I decided to start with David in the Psalms, not normally my favourite book, I prefer the action movie bits. Soon I came to Psalm 35.18 where David says, ‘I will give God thanks in the great congregation.' Instantly I knew, this was God's written confirmation of my night vision, that I would be out of the prison and speaking in the Easter Convention in the Royal Albert Hall in London – it had to be, that was the only really big convention I knew. My heart was full of joy at the thought. Then, just a few days later, cheekily I realised that my birthday came four days before Easter that next year. So I began to pray, if You Lord can work such a big miracle that I can go home after only one year, why not send me home on my birthday? Boldy I prayed, Lord if You will give me my request to be home for my birthday, then show me another verse from the Psalms where You speak of a prisoner being released from chains. I read on anxiously – until I came to Psalm 68.6, God sets the solitary in families; He brings out the prisoner in chains. I could hardly contain my joy! Home for my birthday! God had confirmed it in writing.

I want to challenge you to rise up and do something for the Glory of God in the Power of the Holy Ghost and in the Name of Jesus. We're living in a time of real spiritual warfare – not just saying, ‘Oh, I'm going to bind the power of the devil' – but getting out there where the devil is and trouncing him head-on until we get the victory! I believe in action. God has called us into the kingdom, and if you are a born-again, baptised, Spirit-filled believer, God has done that for a reason. God doesn't save you and call you so that you can sit at ease – we are saved to serve! 

Our faith is not faith at all until it is put to the test! Without testing, without proving it, it's just something in the mind. Peter wrote, ‘...so that the TESTING OF YOUR FAITH, being more precious than gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ!' (1 Peter 1.6-7).  We cannot live from meeting to meeting, just talking and singing about the power of God, we've got to ‘make it happen'! God wants us to be men and women of ACTION, not passive, but people He can work through. There are three practical ways in which you can make the things of God happen in your life, so that you can fulfil His call, see His miracles, and become what God wants you to be. You need a faith that has been tested, a greater power in prayer, and you need simple obedience. 'But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes; and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: “The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land. If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, ‘a land which flows with milk and honey.' Only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them.” (Numbers 14.6-9)

We've got to be changed, transformed, by the fire and the power of the Holy Spirit! If you want to be filled with the Holy Spirit, if you want to be filled with the power of God, you have got to be emptied first; only then can God fill you with all His power, fire and glory! God baptised me with the Holy Ghost and fire! And I want to tell you that the fire and power is stronger now than it was 70 years ago! I often say that God gets more wonderful every day - but no, He doesn't change, I do! The reason God gets more wonderful and powerful is because each day He reveals Himself to me more and more - and every revelation shows the reality of who He is! 'Your Anointing' used by kind permission of Vinesong Original Air Date 13 April 2015.

'Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.” 'Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” 'But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”' (Numbers 13.26-31, NKJV) One thing had to happen before they could appropriate all the blessings of God, which had been so clearly promised and prophesied, this was their ‘Iron Curtain', the final barrier. One final step and all that they had longed and prayed for would be theirs. One step and the veil that covered their eyes would be lifted and they would see one of the most beautiful and dramatic things that man has ever seen (and few are allowed to actually see this), the REASON why God works great and powerful miracles! His purpose NOW revealed! After all Abraham only acted in faith, he never saw the fulfilment.  But this one final step was not taken! – It was to demand a faith beyond their ability! How often are believers today within sight of everything that they are desiring, often with earnest prayer and with the clear knowledge that God HAS promised... yet that final step is not taken, they don't go in and possess the land. It occurs in the realms of healing, finance, evangelism and missions, possibly even revival, certainly in most areas of our lives and especially our service for God.

An interesting ‘window' on faith is found in Numbers 13. Moses and the whole of Israel had halted on the borders of the Promised Land after their arduous journey. There they were, within sight of their goal, the fulfilment of all God's promises within their grasp. Surely this was all that they could ask for, the ultimate reward for the sufferings which they had endured both in the last days in Egypt and in the travelling. This was the reason why God had performed all the outstanding miracles both in Egypt and in the crossing of the Red Sea, in order to give them deliverance and to fulfil His promise to give them this land. 

(Original Air Date 10 April 2015): God is calling on you to pray for this nation! 'If My people will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven...' God is talking to you and me, not to the sinner: God is wanting His people to repent! When we pray, God says, 'I will answer!' - That is the Covenant we have with Him. When Solomon based his prayer upon the Covenant, what happened? - 'When Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven... (2 Chronicles 7:1). God will heal and restore because you prayed! 'Holy You are Lord' and 'People of Africa' used by kind permission of Vinesong.

"Thus says the Lord: 'If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season, then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, My ministers. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.'" Just as God's covenant with the day and with the night can't be broken, so you can't break God's promises over your life. He has promised to bless you; He will multiply the work of your hands. Believe the Scripture; trust the Word of God. He has given you so many precious promises, and I want you to believe them!

All my life I have believed the prophecy of Joel which refers to two outpourings of the Holy Spirit – the First Rain and the Latter Rain (Joel 2:23). The First being the Day of Pentecost, the Latter being now! In v28 Joel gives the fuller explanation of that ‘Latter Rain'. I have always believed this latter Rain MUST be GREATER than the First – I have experienced it in my ministry, and YOU can have the same! The Church needs a fresh revelation from God's own Word – it should, and can, and will happen NOW! 

In 2003, when I was diagnosed with lung cancer, 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!' 'Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me? ...Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know,' (Jeremiah 32.27, 33.3, NKJV).

God wants to give you a message of forgiveness and restoration, a message of love and of healing. 2000 years ago Jesus went to the cross and died, but He didn't stay in the grave; just as the Scriptures foretold, Jesus rose from the dead. You cannot see Him, I cannot see Him, but I know He is alive. Because He lives again we can come out of the past into a new life, a new hope. Even as you listen to this podcast He will heal your broken heart, He will soothe the wounds of the past. The Bible says of Jesus, 'He will not crush those who are weak, or quench the smallest hope; He came to deliver those who are oppressed, downtrodden, bruised and crushed' (Matthew 12:20, Luke 4:18). 'To God be the Glory' and 'Lamb of God' used by kind permission of Vinesong.

Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me? ...Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know, (Jeremiah 32.27, 33.3, NKJV). The Word of the Lord came to Jeremiah whilst he was shut up in prison, ‘Thus saith the Lord, the Maker – that formed Heaven and earth – to establish it, “Call unto Me and I will answer!”' Come on! So many pray in doubt… Remember how amazed the disciples were when Jesus cursed the fig tree and it died from the root? Jesus explained to them in Mark 11.22-24, “If you will speak to this mountain (the Mount of Olives) and command it to be cast down into the sea (the Dead Sea), if you speak it and believe in your heart without doubt, what you say will be done!” It's time today, in the 21st century that we believed that God will honour His Word and do what He says!

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. 'And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; let it be done for you according to your faith.” And the servant was healed in that hour. When Jesus entered Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever; he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she got up and began to serve him. That evening they brought to him many who were possessed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and cured all who were sick. This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah, “He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.”' (Matthew 8.13-17)  

(Original Air Date 27 March 2015): Why are you afraid? God is in control! When Jesus is in the boat with you, even if He is asleep, it doesn't matter the severity of the storm, one word from Jesus and all will be well. All will be well with your family, health, finances, employment. Jesus will speak peace into every tumultuous situation. I believe the challenge to every one of us today is, why are you afraid? What are you afraid of? 'God is in Control' and 'Rest' used by kind permission of Vinesong

Isaiah 53.5 says Jesus was wounded for our sin, bruised for our iniquity and with His stripes we are healed. 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. '...that evening they brought to him many who were possessed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and cured all who were sick. This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah, "He took our infirmities and bore our diseases,"' (Matthew 8.16-17).  

When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, ‘Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.' Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. ‘I am willing,' he said. ‘Be clean!' Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy. Then Jesus said to him, ‘See that you don't tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.' (Matthew 8.1-4, NIV.) For me the most important chapter in the Bible on healing is Matthew 8. Jesus came down from the mountain and thousands followed Him. A leper came and said, ‘If You want to, You can heal me!' Jesus said, ‘I want to!' and it was done. Then Jesus came into Capernaum and a Roman centurion came to Him, ‘Lord, I have a sick servant at home.' Jesus said, ‘I'll come to your house.' He said, ‘Don't, I'm not a good man,' and I don't suppose he was if he was a Roman centurion! But the officer said the most amazing thing, ‘One word from You and my servant will be healed! I'm a man under authority, an officer in the most powerful army in the world. I have authority from those above, and over those under me. My men obey me! Jesus, I recognise in You the same authority.'

(Original Air Date 27 March 2015) We need the fire of the Spirit to bring revival to our lives. We must cry out from the depth of our soul: 'Holy Spirit we need You, fire deep inside.' I was so excited when I read in Leviticus 6:13 that when the priests lit the fire they were told it must never go out! I received the fire of God when I was 13 and it has never gone out! I've seen too many people who allow the fire to fade, but if the fire is from God, the command is that you must not let it go out! The Apostle Paul told his protegee Timothy: you must fan into flame the gift of God (2 Timothy 1:6). It's your responsibility to keep it burning. 'Holy Ghost Fire' used by kind permission of Vinesong

If only you could understand and see the greatness, the riches of Glory, that is coming from Christ and which is beyond everything we can imagine! This is what I pray for you – that you will see, with your spiritual eyes, what our hope is, what the Glory is, the riches of that Glory which is the inheritance we have in Christ both now and in the world to come! I want you to look up, look beyond! I've had suffering, I've had pain, I've lost my parents, one brother, my sister, my wife – but I don't weep, I look beyond, because I know there is a day of reunion in the Kingdom with those who have passed away before! Our hope transcends, comes above all our earthly panic and pain!

We have an incorruptible inheritance; it can't spoil, it's kept in heaven for us. We all have sinned, we all need salvation from sin and deliverance out of this world. But in this life, we must go through suffering. Our faith has to be tested and be found to the praise and glory of God when Christ appears. The purity of our faith must be tested, just as gold is purified by fire. Our reward for trusting Christ will be the salvation of our souls.  God always intended, from the beginning, from the very foundation of the world, before God created Heaven and earth, God had already planned – another kingdom! Another world, something far more glorious! Here is only our training school, this is only our preparation... Jesus taught us that, for what we do here, we will receive a reward there! There are rewards in the Kingdom of God based on our faithfulness on earth! By what we achieve down here! Our whole experience here is looking forward to something future! The Christian life you have at the moment is not the end, it's only the beginning. What we have down here is not the whole Glory of Salvation, it's not the whole Glory of what we have in Christ – it's just a foretaste, a glimpse into the future of what will be ours!

I want to challenge you to go to the regions beyond - the regions beyond in your faith, the regions beyond in your service. The regions beyond in your prayer life. Don't be satisfied with your prayer life. Don't be satisfied with what you are doing. Let's go higher. How do you get up this 'mountain'? There is no chairlift and there is no cable car. There is only one way up this mountain. You do it by setting the pace and keeping it up step-by-step. So long as you keep moving, Jesus will guide you, leading you on, bringing to you hope along the way. 'The next level' used by kind permission of Vinesong.

‘All honour to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for it is by His boundless mercy that God has given us the privilege of being born again. Now we live with a wonderful expectation because Jesus Christ rose again from the dead. For God has reserved a priceless inheritance for His children. It is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond reach of change and decay. And God in His mighty power, will protect you until you receive this salvation, because you are trusting Him. It will be revealed on the last day for all to see. So be truly glad! There is wonderful joy ahead, even though it is necessary for you to endure many trials for a while. These trials are only to test your faith, to show that it is strong and pure. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold – and your faith is far more precious to God than mere gold. So, if your faith remains strong after being tried by fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honour on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world,' (1 Peter 3-7, NLT). 

There are three visions, three perspectives you need to have if you want to work for God: a vision of God, of the world and of what God can do through you. Most of you are younger than me, so I want to talk to you as a father, grandfather! I want to show you what vision can do in your life. If you do not have a clear vision and purpose, you will achieve nothing for God. I want to give you a clear vision for your future, of what God wants to do, and I want you to live with this vision for the rest of your life! I've heard, I've seen the real Power and Glory of God, I've tasted all that there is in the sanctuary! And like David, I want to see THAT on the battlefield in my life! YOU must TAKE the Glory! Take the Glory back with you into your home, into your church, into your life – INTO YOUR BATTLEFIELD! I've seen the Power of God, in that prison cell; I've seen the Power of God so many times in my life; I was there when revival broke out in Bulgaria, when it started, at the moment when the FIRE came and swept the whole nation even under communism! The Spirit of God came down in such POWER!

Original Air Date 16 March 2015: Jesus said in John 15, 'You did not choose Me, I chose you!' If you are serious about serving God, it is essential you are called and chosen by Him. When God called me, He did not call me as a pastor, preacher or evangelist, He simply said, 'David, I want everything!' - 'I want your time, your money, your family: everything!' The call of God on my life, and the calling on your life, is to serve Jesus; we must serve Him in whichever way He directs. The first thing God asked me to do after I committed everything to Him was to clean shoes; and I did it because I made a commitment. I polished those shoes as if Jesus Himself was going to wear them. Didn't Jesus say in Matthew 20:27-28, 'Whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave; just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many'? We have the false idea that success in the Kingdom is all about bright lights, fame, celebrity; no! God called us as servants. If you want to be the greatest in the Kingdom, then serve willingly in obscurity. 'Lord Jesus, I love you' used by kind permission of Vinesong.