Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
AWAKE O ZION!
Needless to say, I moved up to Bugbrooke as quick as I could —
on my motorbike!
During the time at Ashburnham, we realised that ‘Zion’ was
becoming a place of green pastures and refreshing streams.
A word of prophecy came: ‘Your pastures are too plentiful.’
God wanted to send us others who were hungry for the reality
of community living. Indeed, we sensed that throughout
the country God was gathering his sheep together. The frustration
and loneliness of Christian individualism was giving
way to the strength of brotherhood.
The full import of what God was about was dawning on us.
Arthur Wallis had said: ‘Find out what God is doing in your
generation and throw yourself wholly into it!’ That was our
spirit. We were taking risks and moving fast to keep abreast
of what God was saying to the churches. There was an awesome
sense of destiny and we felt we were becoming a prophetic
people — hence the hymns and songs, the authority of
the word and our provocative stance towards the low level of
church life we were emerging from. Our confidence took wing;
we were coming of age.
It seemed that God was preparing his church for spiritual
warfare. The nation was speeding towards moral disaster and
the powers of darkness were on the march. Charismatic adolescence
was okay, we had needed it, but now was the time
for charismatic manhood. ‘We proclaim him,’ wrote Paul, ‘admonishing
and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that
we may present everyone perfect in Christ’ (Col 1:28). Discipling
one another was to make us fit for battle. At Ashburn-
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